Cusco and Machu Picchu
March 28th 2019 Our final 5 days in Peru were spent in the heart of the formerly glorious Inca Nation. At its height, when the Spanish arrived in 1523, it stretched from Chile and Argentina to Colombia. It is mind boggling that fewer than 200 Conquistadors destroyed a powerful empire of 15 million!
We marvelled at their building skills, without iron, the wheel or animals that could do the hard work, in really
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