Cuzco and Machu Picchu
March 10th 2009 Still alive, and surviving on fruit and bread as promised. We had an early 3hr flight to Cuzco yesterday morning and made it in by around 7:15AM. The city is over 11,000 ft above sea level and the air is very thin, so we were feeling a little woozy when we arrived. Luckily we got some altitude sickness pills in the farmácia before leaving Lima, which we have been taking and which seem to help.
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