Trekking to Choquequirao, Peru’s remote Inca ruins

Posted by on Nov 1, 2014 @ 8:32 am in Hiking News | 0 comments | Last modified: November 1, 2014

Halfway down the track, Nixon stops. He thwacks his machete into a stump to free his hands and reaches over a stone wall, groping for something in the vegetation beneath. A moment later he pulls up a clear plastic bag and hands it over. It is full of human bones. “Incas.” Since the Spanish never found this place, Nixon, the custodian, is surely right about the bones....

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