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Rafting and Trekking in Peru

Story & Photography by Brian E. Clark
hat to do in the gap between when
one’s daughter finishes college
and before she starts graduate
W school?
If she has a Peter Pan father (who declines to
grow up), the two of you head off to South Amer-
ica to run a challenging white water river in the
Andes. And then follow that up by hiking the
Inca Trail, known locally as the Camino Inka,
to the ruins of Machu Picchu.
Maddie, now a 23-year-old student at the
University of Wisconsin-Madison veterinary
medicine school, and I began our adventure
this August by flying into Cusco, which was the
capital of the vast Inca Empire from the 13th
Century until the Spanish conquest in the 16th
Century. Set at a lofty 11,200 feet, it's a UNESCO
World Heritage Site that hosts nearly 2 million
visitors a year.

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