"Nowadays, we throw around the word sublime to describe gooey deserts or overpriced handbags. In (philosopher Immanuel) Kants epistemology, (he said) it meant something limitless, an aesthetically pleasing entity so huge it made the perceivers head hurt. Machu Picchu isn't just beautiful, it's sublime." - (taken from 'Turn Right at Machu Picchu', Mark Adams, 2011). The end of our time in Peru very closely related to our arrival at Machu Picchu, and what we physically and mentally achieved over the 5 days in arriving at Machu Picchu gave us one of our greatest sense of achievements, and it was a privilege to experience such a place. But first, Cusco and then our trek. Our arrival into Cusco greeted us with a new city to get to know in only a short space of time, while beginning
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