Ayacucho, Huancayo, Huaraz and the Cordillera Blanca
September 29th 2010
The bus from Cusco to Ayacucho was excruciatingly long. I left Cusco at 6:45am and didn’t arrive in Ayacucho until 4:40am the following day (this involved a change of bus in Andahuaylas). Ayacucho used to be at the centre of Peruvian tourism, as it’s a pretty colonial city with more churches than I could count. In the 1980s, it was the focal point of the bloody war between the left wing Ma
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