Part of me never wanted to come to Machu Picchu. A bigger part did. So today, we are now atop South America's most iconic historical monument. Those superb pictures of this mountain top city, surrounded by cloud forest dropping away rapidly to the valleys below, could hardly be more stunning. Being here though, tipping down with rain, crammed with other tourists in their brightly coloured ponchos, takes the magic away somehow. I feel like I'm in an amusement park, being separated from my money at every opportunity. We arrived yesterday in fact, a better day than today with brightly lit s
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