The alarm clock rings early, indeed very early, it is 2:30 in the night, there are 30 minutes left and the mini-van is waiting for me outside the hostel. The nights of Cusco are not exactly among the hottest.

In Peru, as indeed in all of South America, distances are measured by taking time rather than space as a unit of measurement; this is because everything depends on the conditions of the roads and the road to get to the beginning of the trek is winding and very narrow, the ... Read more