Just a ruin along the way

We Survived the Inca Trail

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October 7th 2007
Hello All, If a picture is worth a thousand words, then we have the equivalent of about 400,000 words to describe our last 4 days. Yes we are happy to say we have hiked the Inca trail into Machu Picchu! The trek was not very grueling, and the altitude did not really affect us as much as we had orginally thought it would. I guess we were properly acclimatized. We were an incredibly large g ... read more

South America » Peru » Cusco » Inca Trail

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Ancient Peru was the seat of several prominent Andean civilizations, most notably that of the Incas whose empire was captured by the Spanish conquistadors in 1533. Peruvian independence was declared in 1821, and remaining Spanish forces defeated in 1... ... read more