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The Salkantay Pass: Photos 21 to 35
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March 14th 2007 by downwithd
Since we are not your average travellers we decided to take it up a notch and do a more difficult trek than the wimpy Inca Trail. We chose the harrowing journey through the Salkantay Pass. We were looking for more jungle, more mountains and more intensity. That is what we signed up for and that is what we got.
Sarah, a mutual friend of ours that I have known since I was 5 and Moria has known since she was 14, arrived the day before we were to begin our trail. Since she had come from the lowlands of Washington, D.C. and we had spent time in the mountains of Bolivia, Sarah was ill and we were fine. It did not bode well for our journey. We did settle things with our tour company and were briefed by our eternally late guide, Roberto. I am not going to lie and say that he was the greatest. For me he continued with the creepy trekking guide theme of this trip. But he had done the trail heaps of times and made me feel at ease about getting to our final destination.
On the morning I forgot to change my watch.
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March 15th 2007 - aunt peg: moria the trailblazer
You have kept me worried and fascinated by your tales along the way. You are living the pages of those geography books I studied so many years ago. Stay safe, have fun, and boy, will we be happy when you get home! We miss you!!!!! Love, Aunt Peg
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A Sacrificial Temple
This is where the Shamans would rub the body of a mystical mummy with the freshly torn out heart of a sacrifical child.
The Astronomical Center of Machu Picchu
This is where they had a perfect compass and other means of measuring seasons.
The Terraces of Machu Picchu
The Incas invented terrace farming. Some of the terraces in MP were for stability and others for crops.
We are mummies
This is where two of the sacred mummies were stored during the heyday of Machu Picchu.
Me and the Andes of Machu Picchu
Machu Picchu means "old mountain" in Quechua. The man who discovered it thought that was the name of the mountain not a general term
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March 15th 2007 - aunt peg: moria the trailblazer
You have kept me worried and fascinated by your tales along the way. You are living the pages of those geography books I studied so many years ago. Stay safe, have fun, and boy, will we be happy when you get home! We miss you!!!!! Love, Aunt Peg
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