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Background: 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 1824. After a dozen years of military rule, Peru returned to democratic leadership in 1980, but experienced economic problems and the growth of a violent insurgency. President Alberto FUJIMORI's election in 1990 ushered in a decade that saw a dramatic turnaround in the economy and significant progress in curtailing guerrilla activity. Nevertheless, the president's increasing reliance on authoritarian measures and an economic slump in the late 1990s generated mounting dissatisfaction with his regime. FUJIMORI won reelection to a third term in the spring of 2000, but international pressure and corruption scandals led to his ouster by Congress in November of that year. A caretaker government oversaw new elections in the spring of 2001, which ushered in Alejandro TOLEDO as the new head of government; his presidency has been hampered by allegations of corruption.




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By Thur et Aude
December 13th 2009
Cuzco L'Imperiale South America » Peru » Cusco » Cusco » Cusco
La suite de nos aventures au Perou... Apres le treck, nous quittons Huaraz et ses sommets enneiges: direction Cuzco! Plus de 30 heures de bus, avec un arret de 6h a Lima - dont nous ne voyons du coup quasi rien... Arrives a Cusco, nous decidons de chercher un hotel dans le "Montmarte" local: San Blas. Que lindo! Nous trouvons par hasard une petite pension familiale, avec des gens super comme proprios. Pour le reste, la ville est magnifique et on y mange bien. Waouwwww. On en oublierait les quelques endroits chers et touristiques :-) du centre. De la, nous preparons [View Full Entry]

Thur et Aude - Arthur et Aude | Read The Full Entry | Subscribe
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Published: December 22nd 2009 | 28 Views | [diary=460238]

Le Machu Picchu!!!
Premiers rayons de soleil sur le Machu Picchu
Pause Cafe a Huaraz

As promised, a lot of pictures. I wont write much, just comment on the pictures... enjoy. Catching a bus in 30 mins, so the blogs is a bit incomplete, but the computers arent really reliable so I'm going with what I have.. More pictures will come as soon as I get to a civilized town. The next 4 days we are going on a trip on the Salt flats in southern Bolivia, and I wont be able to update the blog untill we arrive in Argentina around the 16th-17th dec. Stay cool [View Full Entry]

Sunde - Christoffer Sunde | Read The Full Entry | Subscribe
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Published: December 12th 2009 | 139 Views | [diary=460011]

Inca Bucks :)
Busride
Two can play that game...

Hey, This post might make a little more sense now that I´ve gotten sleep, water, Tylenol, coffee, and a big greasy breakfast into me. I was definitely feeling a little rough when I got up at noon, much better now. So, as you all gathered from last nights entry, a bunch of us went on a pub crawl with our tour leader and his local friend. We all had a blast, danced the night away, and drank way too much. Brunos friend owns a bar, so we were getting lots of free drinks and deals. Was a good time. Since my [View Full Entry]

arl865 - Adam Lamoureux | Read The Full Entry | Subscribe
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Published: December 6th 2009 | 40 Views | [diary=458616]


By KatrinaJames
December 6th 2009
Cusco South America » Peru » Cusco » Cusco » Cusco
Arrived in Cusco after a quick and satisfying 8 hr bus journey from Puno. Quick because I slept the whole way and satisfying because I barterted with the bus company and got the tickets for the five of us for just 15 soles each, about 3 pounds! We celebrated our arrival in Cusco with a much deserved night out, not sure how I managed it after Puno but one has to be strong! We met up with a friend the three girls had made while they were travelling in the US, as she is now renting in Cusco and knows all [View Full Entry]

KatrinaJames - Katrina | Read The Full Entry | Subscribe
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Published: December 19th 2009 | 14 Views | [diary=461239]

Christmas play
Loki
English beer!

And so the countdown to the end of our South America trip begins! We have only 3 dys left in this crazy, beautiful, challenging, corupt and awe inspiring continent...which mebns only 3 more days of speaking in 'pretend' Spanish (although our Spanish IS actually barely understndible now!!) only 3 more days of taking random buses and only 3 more days of waking up each morning parying that last nights dinner has not created WW3 in your stomach! For the last week we have been based in Cusco - the historical centre and main city of the Sacred Valley - home to [View Full Entry]

chrisandnatSA - Chris Cardew | Read The Full Entry | Subscribe
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Published: November 17th 2009 | 94 Views | [diary=453922]


By John from Totnes
November 1st 2009
Sunday in Cusco South America » Peru » Cusco » Cusco
All Saints Day and the locals celebrated with a civic and military parade around the main square known as Plaza de Armas. All the local worthies were settled in a canopy placed outside the Cathedral and the march pass began. It consisted of amongst others the army , police, government workers , schoolchildren and even the road cleaners (they came last with their brooms and shovels). Very colourful and very stirring with the army band in full pelt especially the one with the big bass drum. Well as it was Sunday I decided to do the religious tour which included a [View Full Entry]

John from Totnes - John Birch | Read The Full Entry | Subscribe
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Published: November 2nd 2009 | 54 Views | [diary=450052]

The Army on the move

By timandsue
October 29th 2009
The Preparation South America » Peru » Cusco » Cusco » Cusco
Off to Cuzco And so our real circumnavigation of the globe begins. We're off to Cuzco in Peru to spend a few days acclimatizing before we begin our slightly unconventional trek through the Andes. It's a very early start. We're all packed up again, minus some of the things we needed specifically for Africa and while this is the biggest excursion away from home during this trip it's also our third so we feel confident that we've got exactly what we'll need as we zoom through the deserted streets of London towards Heathrow. At the airport we chance upon the business [View Full Entry]

timandsue - Tim and Sue | Read The Full Entry | Subscribe
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Published: November 7th 2009 | 45 Views | [diary=451188]

We've made it to Cuzco
Alpaca!
Salkantay peak from the Cuzco rooftops

By Southward bound
October 24th 2009
In hot water. South America » Peru » Cusco » Cusco » Cusco
It's been a long time since I last wrote but I'm glad you're still around to read all about my adventures! There seems to be a bit of an issue with blogging. When I'm off doing lots of stuff that you might want to hear about, I don't have time to write about it but then when I'm just hanging around at home I have all the time in the world to tell you about all of the nothing that I'm up to. Well, as you might have guessed it have been an eventful last month so lets get started. Three [View Full Entry]

Southward bound - Kate Levy | Read The Full Entry | Subscribe
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Published: October 24th 2009 | 26 Views | [diary=447880]

On our way to town
Juan and Kyle.
Bug bites

By Charlottie22
October 21st 2009
Leaving! South America » Peru » Cusco » Cusco » Cusco
15/10/09 Well I have officially been away for 5 weeks today! I had a wonderful lie in then packed up my things and left the house...after saying my goodbyes of course! I got a taxi to my hotel, it was a right posh one!!! I checked in and left my stuff in the room. i left a note for whoever i was going to be sharing with then headed off to the plaza. Found a little restaurant off the plaza called ´the crown´ and i had a full english with a delicious coffee sitting on a lovely sun filled balcony overlooking [View Full Entry]

Charlottie22 - Charlotte Wyeth | Read The Full Entry | Subscribe
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Published: October 21st 2009 | 30 Views | [diary=447036]


LIMA JA CUSCO 15.10.-19.10.2009 Sisareni lähettämät vaatteet. kengät ja kirjat löytyivät vihdoin Ecuadorin postista, kun suostuin maksamaan tullia peräti 87 dollaria. Joten kaikki hyvin paitsi uusi kamerani ei ole läheskään niin hyvä kuin alkuperäinen. Tai sitten en osaa vain käyttää sitä vielä. Sony Cyber Shot vaatii paljon enemmän säätöä, jonka vuoksi valokuvaaminen on tullut myös hitaammaksi. Tai johtuuko kuvien hämäryys siitä, ettei minulla ole enää kunnon silmälaseja. Aion ostaa Brasiliassa, Rio de Janeirossa, uudet lasit parin viikon kuluttua. Onneksi minulla oli vanha kännykkäni m [View Full Entry]

MariaS ntti - Maria Säntti | Read The Full Entry | Subscribe
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Published: October 19th 2009 | 21 Views | [diary=446447]

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