AMERICAS
Peru: Sacred Valley
Central in Lima, Inca trails, dawn at Machu Picchu.
The padavs
Lima earns its food capital reputation — Central, Maido, and Astrid y Gastón if you can get them; cebicherías in Miraflores if you can't. Fly to Cusco to acclimate at 11,000 feet — coca tea helps, slower walking helps more. Drop to the Sacred Valley (lower altitude, easier on the body) for Pisac market, Ollantaytambo's Inca ruins, and a Tambo del Inka or Inkaterra base. The train to Aguas Calientes, then dawn at Machu Picchu — go early, before the day-trip crowds turn it into a queue.
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A day in Lima
At the archaeological site when the gates open — before the tour buses, the light is soft and the stones speak.
The small on-site museum holds the artefacts that weren't shipped abroad. Usually quiet. Always extraordinary.
A slow dinner in the old town, where history continues above every lintel.
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