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A powerful and deeply personal account of five weeks invested saturated in the Andes Foothills, this travelogue includes anthropological and historic particulars using the excitement of serious journey. Walking at over 10,000 feet for nearly the whole journey, the writer uses the truly amazing street of the Incas, the Camino Real. Hand built over 500 years back, this route crosses the absolute most challenging and dangerous hills in every the Americas, and life proceeds as though Columbus had never sailed. Discovering and learning distant towns is key to the mission, and—despite puppy assaults, blistering canyons, surges, and persistent donkeys—the writer makes his way from the equator to Cuzco and onto the absolute most enchanting town of: Machu Picchu.