The pride of peru?!

Fun times in North Peru!

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March 4th 2009
After a great time in Cuenca, it was time to move on to Peru, somewhere we had wanted to go for a long time before this trip. We left the Scots in Cuenca and the rest of us got the bus down to the hectic border crossing into Peru and after a long day of travel we got to the fairly bleak beach town of Mancora. After being in the mountains for so long the heat in Mancora felt absolutely savage. M ... read more

South America » Peru » Trujillo

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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