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Inca Trail
The Inca Trail, to Machu Picchu is Peru's most popular trekking route and one of the world’s most spectacular hikes. It forms part of the more than 14,000 miles (23,000km) of roads built by the Inca across South America.
Each year, some 25,000 hikers from all over the world are granted Inca Trail permits to trek the 27-mile (43km) trail, climbing through enchanted woodlands up to treeless puna grasslands before a dizzying descent to the impregnable citadel of Machu Picchu, deep in the Cusco cloud forest. |