Finding More Than Ruins on the Inca Trail

Machu Picchu.

Confession time — my favorite part of hiking the Inca Trail wasn’t Machu Picchu.

Don’t get me wrong, there’s a reason it’s a UNESCO World Heritage Site, and the people that voted it as one of the New Seven Wonders of the World knew what they were talking about. The scope of Machu Picchu is incredible, and having seen it in person through the fog of a rainy Friday morning, I can tell you that…