The palace in the centre of Lima

Bad week in Peru

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January 12th 2007
Buenos Dias Well what a crap week we have had! Hopefully now it is starting to get better and I guess that all backpackers experience a bad week at some point and we have been pretty lucky up until now as to how smoothly everything has gone. Anyway when I last wrote our luggage had been lost by the airline and we were on our way to see Pilah who was our contact over here for the Inca Trail ... read more

South America » Peru » Lima

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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