It took 12 years for Karin Müller's planned journey into the heart of the powerful ancient Inca empire to become a reality. Her dream, a three-thousand-mile red line drawn in permanent marker on the map of Latin America, had finally come true. There, at the very border of Colombia, Karin Müller entered the High Inca Trail - the path that connected the distant ends of the illustrious empire destroyed by the Spanish conquistadors. Having learned the Inca legends hidden among the drawings on the skillfully carved slabs of the ruins of Cuzco and in the depths of the pupils of modern Indians, there was no shortage of , Karin Müller will draw the main conclusion from her adventure that “the history books lie: the Inca Empire was never conquered, it lives and thrives.”