Salkantay River

5 days, 33 miles & Machu Picchu Later

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July 28th 2006
I made it! 6 days ago I started my journey across the Salkantay Trek to Machu Picchu (the reason I traveled more than 4,000 miles to Peru) Every minute was incredible! Sunday morning we began at 6am and stopped along the way for breakfast where we could see the Salkantay Mountain, one of the highest of the Andes Mountains (almost 21,000 feet / higher than the Swiss Alps / no one has ever surviv ... read more

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Ancient Peru was the seat of several prominent Andean civilizations, most notably that of the Incas whose empire was captured by the Spanish conquistadors in 1533. Peruvian independence was declared in 1821, and remaining Spanish forces defeated in 1... ... read more