New park entrance regulations: hand washing

At the entrance to archeological sites, like Piquillaqta, the tourism board has set up hand washing stations. Most of these sites don't have buildings that can have extra hand washing stations added. Like Piquillacta, most of the park entrances are just a dirt road, where hand washing needs a contained system that doesn't need electricity or plumbing.

COVID in Cusco: Week 32

October 24th 2020
Sunday 18 October 219 days since Covid arrived in Cusco The rains have finally arrived! I woke up to a rainy morning in Urubamba, the kind of rainy morning that makes me hum the lyrics “I’m only happy when it rains” by Garbage. Being born in Seattle is not the only thing that makes me love rain, the hills around Cusco which have either been either yellow with dry grass, or black with ... read more

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Ancient Peru was the seat of several prominent Andean civilizations, most notably that of the Incas whose empire was captured by the Spanish conquistadors in 1533. Peruvian independence was declared in 1821, and remaining Spanish forces defeated in 1... ... read more

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