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Inca Trail-Day Four–Machu Picchu

Posted in Peru, tagged , , , on November 12, 2008 | 15 Comments »

It hasn’t been very often in my 30 years that I’ve woken up at 4am (even though I’ve still been awake many times from the previous night), but I actually woke up early the final morning. I felt like a kid on Christmas morning, just knowing that in a matter of hours we would finally [...]

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Inca Trail-Day Three

Posted in Peru, tagged , , on November 11, 2008 | 1 Comment »

We awoke early again for our third and longest day of hiking. Even though this was our longest day, Cesar, our guide, informed us it would be the most enjoyable (and he was correct). We would pass several different Incan ruins along the way, and we would take our time soaking in the atmosphere and [...]

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Inca Trail-Day Two

Posted in Destinations, Peru, Trekking, tagged , , on November 10, 2008 | 5 Comments »

We awoke on the second day at 5am, had a great breakfast, and we were off on what was supposed to be (and was) the most difficult day. We camped at 3000 meters, and we would climb to the highest pass of the trek at 4200 meters (nearly 14,000 feet). The thing that made it [...]

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Inca Trail-Day One

Posted in Peru, tagged , , on November 10, 2008 | 5 Comments »

When talking about how we were going to chronicle this journey, we decided to do it two different ways. Since my wife isn’t a big fan of writing big, long posts, and since she says I can be a little long-winded (I like to say descriptive), we decided that I would post a recap [...]

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WOW!

Posted in Destinations, Peru, tagged on November 8, 2008 | 5 Comments »

We’re back from our Inca Trail hike to Machu Picchu, and I’m way too tired to write anything long (don’t worry though, you’ll get plenty of info in the coming days).  The whole thing was absolutely amazing, and we have over 500 pictures to prove it.  The journey was remarkable, and when we walked through [...]

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