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Salkantay Trek to Machu Picchu: The Complete Hiking Guide
Planning the Salkantay Trek to Machu Picchu? This complete guide covers the classic five-day itinerary, the climb over 15,190-foot Salkantay Pass, the…
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Salkantay Trek to Machu Picchu: My First Real Taste of the High Andes
At nineteen, I spent three months exploring Bolivia and Peru, getting my first real introduction to the Andes. After a difficult trekking…
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How to Arrive at Machu Picchu With Some Context
Machu Picchu does not need help being dramatic. It sits at 2,430 meters in the Peruvian Andes, stone terraces folding into green…
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Coffee in Cusco Is Better Without a Top-Five List
Cusco has enough cafés to make a top-five list feel useful for roughly the time it takes a sixth one to open.…
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The Peruvian Amazon Is Not One Destination
Saying you are going to the Peruvian Amazon is a little like saying you are going to the mountains. It identifies an…
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The Road Into Machu Picchu
Most people arrive at Machu Picchu after a train and a bus. The Inca Trail changes the first impression by making the…
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Peruvian Food Refuses to Be One Cuisine
Peruvian food is usually introduced as a fusion. The word is useful until it starts making centuries of migration, trade, colonization, adaptation,…
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Budgeting for Peru Means Budgeting for the Andes
Peru can be affordable, but the old price list promising five-dollar beds and fixed-cost trips to Machu Picchu was never going to…
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