Cusco and Inca trail

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After a few days in various places on the peruvian coast, we headed inland through Arequipa and the highlands.

The Incas were in their heyday about 500 years ago, until the spanish came along and wiped most of them out! Cusco was the capital of the Inca empire - its certainly the nicest city Ive visited in Peru

As an alternative to the Inca trail (which was booked up) we did the Lares trek, this goes through different villages in the highlands, rising to 4800m. We camped for three nights then we took the train to Machu Pichu to the famous Inca City.

The people who do the classic Inca trail walk into Machu Picchu through the sun gate, although it was misty when we went there.

I also had the oportunity to walk/climb up Waynapicchu , which is very steeop, but amazing views from the top

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Photos

Main square in Cusco
Bronze Inca

Emergency donkey
Fortunatley nobody needed a ride on the donkey

City of Machu Picchu
The large piece in the background is Waynapicchu