The unmissable city, lost and carefully isolated by the Incas in the Urubamba River Valley, 4 days' walk from Cusco, was only discovered at the beginning of the 20th century, when the Spanish, during the conquest of the country, never managed to reach it.
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A land of mystery :
How, when, why and by whom were the Nazca lines drawn? What was the role and meaning of Machu Picchu? What is the mystical power of ayahuasca, the sacred plant of the Amazonian shamans? Mysteries among many others in a country prone to magic and the supernatural....
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