After a short 30 minute flight from Arequipa, we arrived in Cusco, capital of the Inca empire and starting point for most who wish to trek the original Inca road to Machu Picchu. With one day in Cusco to aclimatise and buy all our last minute items for the trek, we strolled around the city´s markets and beautiful cobbled Plaza de Armas. On every side of the main Plaza, the streets rise steeply and narrowly and the lower parts of many of the buildings are still made of huge Inca stones. Here like many other examples, the angles cut into the massive pillow shaped bricks are mindboggling and so precise that its hard to imagine modern engineering could acheive anything to equal the feat. Our trek began with a day trip to the Sacred Valley, sacred
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