Standing at Kilometer 82, staring down the churning brown water of the Urubamba River, the numbers on the topographical map finally became a reality. Ahead of my dad and me lay 26 miles of jagged Andean trail, three high-altitude mountain passes, and thousands of uneven stone steps laid down by the Inca Empire more than …
There is a massive difference between traveling to see a place and traveling to experience a place. In a world where we can instantly stream high-definition drone footage of the world’s most remote wonders or buy a train ticket that drops us directly at the gates of an ancient citadel, true adventure has become a …
My Experience In One Of The World’s Most Popular Tourist Attractions There was no way we were heading to Machu Picchu and not doing the Inca Trail. The pretentious traveler in me wouldn’t allow it. The four-day trek is the stuff of bucket list dreams, and only seeing the old Incan Citadel wasn’t going to …