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The lost city of the Incas

March 3rd 2007
After 4 days in Cuzco, enjoying some of the best food of the trip at a german haunt call Grade Heidi, Laurence and I boarded a train from the town of Ollantaytunbo for Aqua Caliente, the town adjacent to the famous Incan ruins. The atmospere at the train station was electric as hundreds of foreign toursists waited for the gates to open and their own Machu Pichu adventure to begin. Vendors lined ... read more
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Peruvian Flag 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
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