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		<title>Inca Trail Passes: Sold Out For the Summer!</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 28 Apr 2011 14:49:42 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Kris Thomas</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[If you look at any website related to the Inca Trail, you will inevitably find a precaution to book your Inca Trail pass three (during the regular season) to six months (in the peak season) in advance.  This is no marketing gimmick – this is the plain truth. ]]></description>
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		<title>Inca Trail Hiking Blog Wins Award</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 31 Mar 2011 17:24:26 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Allan Wright</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Inca Trail Hiking Blog won the 2011 Best Peru Blog from the TripBase Travel Blog Awards!
To quote the TripBase website: &#8220;In the Peru category of our Travel Awards for this year, Our Tripbase judging panel very carefully evaluated hundreds of Peruvian blogs, selecting just the choicest examples using criteria like accuracy, update frequency, tone [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Should You Worry About the Altitude on the Inca Trail?</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 30 Apr 2010 00:30:13 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Kris Thomas</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Should you worry about the altitude on the Inca Trail?  The answer to that question, for most people, is no.  Thousands of people hike the Inca Trail each year and most do not have serious issues.  However, you should definitely be prepared for the effects of altitude and know a little bit about altitude sickness ahead of time.]]></description>
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		<title>Machu Picchu Train: Current Status</title>
		<link>http://incatrailhiking.com/blog/2010/03/23/machu-picchu-train-current-status/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 23 Mar 2010 16:53:57 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Allan Wright</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[As you might know, the train to Machu Picchu was wiped out in half a dozen places due to rains and flooding in early February. Because there are only two real ways to reach Machu Picchu &#8211; the train and the Inca Trail &#8211; the Peruvian government has closed Machu Picchu temporarily.
However, the national rail [...]]]></description>
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		<title>$1750 collected for Cachiccata in the Sacred Valley</title>
		<link>http://incatrailhiking.com/blog/2010/03/08/1750-collected-for-cachiccata-in-the-sacred-valley/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 09 Mar 2010 00:29:17 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Allan Wright</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[On our previous post, we wrote about the damage the recent floods caused to our friends in Cachiccata, Peru.
We made an appeal to readers of this blog. We are proud to say the following people donated a total of $1000 to the citizens of Cachiccata. All of them are Zephyr Alumni but, in a very [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Helping our Friends in Cachiccata, Peru</title>
		<link>http://incatrailhiking.com/blog/2010/02/25/helping-our-friends-in-cachiccata-peru/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 25 Feb 2010 18:22:15 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Kris Thomas</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[There is a tiny village in Peru called Cachiccata that is near and dear to our hearts.
It has only a few hundred inhabitants but is the home of all the cooks and porters who assist us on our treks in Peru.  These are some of the hardest-working people we have ever met.
These are folks who [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Current Situation at Machu Picchu</title>
		<link>http://incatrailhiking.com/blog/2010/02/18/current-situation-at-machu-picchu/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 18 Feb 2010 21:29:21 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Allan Wright</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[We at Zephyr Adventures have been planning for months to start a new blog connected to our IncaTrailHiking.com site. Because of heavy rains and flooding earlier this month in the Cusco and Machu Picchu areas, we felt that now is the time.
Heavy rains caused massive flooding along the Vilcabamba River (also known as the Urubamba [...]]]></description>
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