0Ollantaytambo, Peru
17th October 2007
Walking in the Valley
As a child, I went through a period when at the prospect of having a school friend coming to visit, I would get so excited I would become ill with a migraine, and the visit would be cancelled. It was over a relatively short period when this occurred, perhaps a year, before I grew out of it and was able to safely invite friends to stay without fear of waking dehydrated and disoriented on the morning of their arrival. I’ve been fascinated with the Inca since I was given a copy of Biggles and the Cruise of the Condor for my 8th birthday, and now, I was finally going to be visiting the most famous icon of their civilisation. But I almost didn’t get there.