Finally made it!

The view from the top ....on the left is the road up to Machu Picchu and on the right is part of the complex itself. We thought someone had set fire to it at first!! But the fire is on the mountain behind it.

A t-shirt saying 'No Gracias' please!

August 9th 2006
Only one more week of high altitude was to come. Thank god for that as we were getting tired of struggling around hilly towns and had forgotten what it feels like at normal altitudes. Cusco is the old Inca civiliasation´s capital and is extremely picturesque, mainly because a lot of the buildings are built on huge Inca stone. The Spanish, having wiped the Incas (with a lot of help from European d ... 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

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