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| Coricancha. The Inca temple in Cuzco destroyed by the Spanish and replaced with a monastory | | Sacsayhuaman just outside Cuzco. Believed to be an Inca temple but used as a fort by the Inca trying to remove the Spanish from Cuzco |
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| View of Cuzco, the old Inca capital, from Sacsayhuaman |
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A little warm up hike before the main thing. |
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| The start is somewhere down there. |
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And we're off. Around Km81. The guide is Narciso |
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| I so love shakey bridges! |
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Day 1 was mainly like this. |
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| Except this bit. |
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The view from the first uphill bit. |
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| Starting to get a bit more up. |
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Of course we had terrible weather for the whole trip. |
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| Up through the first cloud forest. |
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Crap picture but the view was great |
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| From just over the first pass to just below the second. The orange thing is the lunch tent. These porters can shift! |
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Just the sort of thing for heights! |
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| Some of the views were incredible |
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Our first view of Machu Picchu |
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| The Urubamba River |
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What a lunch spot. This alone made the trip worthwhile. |
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| Nobody told us about these! I'll check my sleeping bag next time. The wasp has killed the spider and is going to lay it's eggs inside the spider. |
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I don't remember where this was but it shows why the cloud forest exists. |
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| And we finally get there |
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Who needs roads! This is a main street. |
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