PERU’S ANCIENT WONDERS
Memories of Incan legends about beautiful maidens sacrificed on mountaintops and troves of gold treasure fill my head while squashed in the back of a crowded bus on the way to see Machu Picchu.
My imagination runs riot as we near the UNESCO World Heritage site located at dizzying heights in Peru’s Andes Mountains. Ever since I was a young schoolgirl with pigtails I have been fascinated by those two words – Machu Picchu – that mean ‘old mountain’
