Cuzco

Machu Picchu to Lima

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January 21st 2011
As I write its raining again. Its been doing a lot of that for the last week so much so that I've invested in a blue plastic poncho very fetching and a snip at £3, but then it is the rainy season so I suppose I've got to put up with it. Despite the weather I've had a great time in Cuzco. It is, so my guide book tells me, the oldest continually inhabited city in he Americas. Some of the back st ... 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