Boom Skips Toiling Porters on Inca Trail to Machu Picchu From: abcnews.go.com
Tagged: machu picchu, PeruPosted on: June 18th, 2008
But instead of carrying news or fresh seafood delicacies from the coast, they haul propane tanks, camping equipment and four days of food for wealthy tourists from worlds away — all for as little as $8 a day.
Peruvian law permits only 500 people to set out each day on the Inca Trail to Peru’s top tourist destination, Machu Picchu — and nearly 300 of them are porters. Many complain that they are underpaid for their backbreaking labor.”*
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