http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Inca_Trail_to_Machu_Picchu “There are no words that can tell the hidden spirit of the wilderness that can reveal its mystery, its melancholy, its charm. There is delight in the hardy life of the open…in the thrill of the fight with dangerous game. Apart from this, yet mingled with it is the strong attraction of the silent places, of the large tropic moons, and the splendor of the new stars where the wanderer sees the awful glory of sunrise and sunset in the wide waste spaces of the earth, unworn of man, and changed only by the slow change of the ages through time everlasting.” -- Theodore Roosevelt Khartoum, Sudan 1910 Our adventure on the Inca trail started early at 445a when we woke up and went to the lobby to meet Ivan, our guide for the trip.
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