The famous city of ruins is exciting, but the life of nearby towns and cities proved truly charming. Click below to see more photos by Glenn Drosendahl.
Local women show their handmade goods in the area called Tres Lagunas, high above Pisac.
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Farms beyond roads, high above Pisac. The people here use no machines to plow their fields or harvest their crops and speak Quechua, language of the Incas.
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A Peruvian boy who told visitors: "The Incas were very big people."
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Cassandra Tate of Seattle and Daniel Rojas Tapia of Santiago, Chile, look down into the Sacred Valley from highlands near Cuzco.
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A statue of an Inca leader in the tiny town of Agua Callientes, end of the railroad line to Machu Picchu.