Machu Picchu - lost city of the Incas. and retired american dentists everywhere...
September 3rd 2007 We got up the next morning and went down to the bus station to find out when our bus to Ollantaytambo was leaving...Sid, we had discovered, had eaten some uncooked cow sandwich the day before and was feeling pretty wretched, so we wandered out into the Cusco sun and with our lack of spanish to discover a)where the bus station was and b)whether anyone there would be able to understand us when we st
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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 
