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This is a great story on how Mountain Travel Sobek is trying to get off the overcrowded obnoxious Inca Trail to Macchu Pichu and promoting many of the other alternative Inca Trails around Peru.

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You know, it kind of makes me think, will people migrate toward unique routes, or do people want to go with what's comfortable and "known" by everybody? It's kind of like in Tanzania everybody wants to go to the Serengetti, but places like the Selous Game Reserve and great, if not better.

Any thoughts?

Hey Donovan,

That's a pretty good question. İ think every continent has a few places that everyone has heard of and to most of us they just sound like magical places. Like the pyramids, Macchu Pichu or the Serengetti, etc. İ think most people that go, don't go because it's "known", at least İ hope not, and most people won't want to skip it either, just because EVERYONE goes there. İ think lots of people kid themselves and hope that they'll find a nice quiet trail, or non-touristy spot, since most of the images we have of those places before we go are of it when its completely empty. İ'm starting to trail off now...

The trail in the story sounds like the much "better" way to get to M.P., in terms of avoiding the crowds. Since MP is on my list of "must see" places, I'm going to look into this.....

I want to visit Nepal, and I have heard regions like Mustang are dramatic and completely by tourists, yet there is a side that wants to visit the Everest region because it's "the Everest" region, but again it's filled with tourists on well worn routes.

Donovan

Mustang! That's definitely next (next time I go to Nepal) for me! There are villages there, were the people don't even know the name of their country. Expensive though, but if you aren't traveling for a long time, then the price won't be an issue.

I must have been really lucky at Everest. I was at Base Camp for about an hour and I only saw one other person, who became my friend...