You may have heard of the Incas, but nothing can prepare you for the moment you step off the plane at Cusco's small airport. Your bird's eye view was one thing, but up close the old stone foundations of one of the world's greatest civilisations are something else. Towering archways mix in with some of the finest colonial Spanish architecture on the continent - an incredible architectural fusion. At 3,000m high in the Andes mountains, the locals have long been onto something with their warm woven textiles and soothing mate de coca, all there now to be experienced by you, Spanish students and trekkers alike.
