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...Picchu's 2,500 daily visitors arrive by a four-hour train ride from Cuzco that ends at the small town of Aguas Calientes. From there, a 20-minute bus journey transports them up to the famous ruins. The hard way, on the other hand, involves joining a guided trek of the Inca Trail. From a starting point that lies 88 km by train from Cuzco, you plunge into the jungle, camp for three nights along the way and reach altitudes of 4,200 m before you walk down to the 2,400-m mountaintop marvel...
...comes 104 km down the line. There is no station there, merely an arrow indicating the way to the trailhead across the Urubamba River. Entrepreneurial locals sell $3 walking sticks carved from tree branches-and you'll need them, because you're in for a roughly six-hour rainforest trek...
...boyfriend at the time insisted we “do something special” for Valentine’s Day, and it wasn’t until we were well up Garden Street that I realized “something special” was “a trek to Cabot House dining hall in subzero temperatures.” But trust me: the good stories that emerge from bad Valentine’s Days are a priceless commodity...
...always try to get our girls focused and in the moment.” But when asked whether she thought Harvard students should replace their workouts with mindfulness exercises when the MAC closes for a 6 to 8-month rennovation on March 19th, instead of making the trek to alternative venues such as Hemenway Gymnasium or Blodgett Pool, Steplyk said, “I wouldn’t recommend it.” But Langer says that if a person truly believes what he or she is doing is exercise, the benefits will ensue, even if that exercise consists...
...exactly?By flying me to San Francisco and then to Denver.Now, I was never the most astute geographer, but I was pretty sure California comes after Denver when traveling west from Boston. But what choice did I have? I headed back to school, attempting to kill time before my trek back to the airport the next morning to catch the 6:25 a.m. flight to the Bay.Before my return to the airport the next morning, I encountered: 1) A stranded freshman who had missed her own San Francisco flight, and accompanied me back and forth to campus; 2) The same...