On the Footsteps of the Incas
The Group In the summer of last year, Stéphane our infamous leader of the Raleigh Trail Runners developed the plan for our next great adventure trip. After the Grand Canyon in 2023, Yosemite in 2024 and Quebec in 2025, I knew this would be another unforgettable trip - and it was! We ended up being a group of nine arriving in Cusco, Peru on May 8th and 9th via Lima and Miami or Atlanta. Most of us shared the same hotel in Cusco and in addition to our seven-day trek also toured the Sacred Valley on May 10th and Rainbow Mountain on May 18th, and some of us even stayed behind for an additional multi-day jungle tour. Our group and two guides at the end of our seven-day trek overlooking Machu Picchu The Incas Sometimes in the late 1100s a small tribe migrated from lake Titicaca to Cusco and formed a settlement. This was the beginning of the Incas. 350 years later in August 1533 the last Inca Emperor was executed by the Spanish bringing an empire spanning over 3,000 miles from Quito, Ecu...