Llaqtapata

The Lost City

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March 29th 2007
"From the city of Cusco there are two roads or royal highways which are two thousand miles long, one goes along the plains and the other along the mountain tops. In order to make them the way they are, it was necessary to raise the valleys, cut the stones and roads and humble the heights of the mountians." (Pedro Clezo de Leon) It was the cold shower, fresh from the pounding Urubamba river, ... read more

South America » Peru » Cusco » Machu Picchu

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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