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, situated high about in the mountains region between Peru and Bolivia, is a place that unites the ideas of religion and great beauty. With a magnificent lake that spans beyond the eyes can see, a rough and traitorous mountain climb, and its ten-foot crosses that ....

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.... other people are already climbing and others walking through the path other villagers had made long ago. Once off the boat, the first steps to the path are few feet away from the shoreline. The steps they take are considered sacred and the people are supposed to go on them bear footed. These steps are made up of little rocks, some of them smoother than others. The first few steps up the mountain are relatively simple to climb. Nevertheless, as one goes higher, the steepness of the mountain begins to take affect on one's already weary feet, making it difficult to get to the top, but not impossible. The trees that surround the path make them ....