Market Distancing

Social distancing is very easy with the new set up at the market. There are less than half the usual sellers, and none of the people who used to sell handmade wicker baskets were there today. The giant white bottle in the distance is the new sponsor of the market: the local brand of rubbing alcohol that everybody has in a spray bottle to spray on the money you give them and most of the products that they give you.

COVID in Cusco: Week 25

September 5th 2020
Sunday, 30 August, 2020 170 days since Covid arrived in Cusco It’s also been 170 days since the library in Cusco closed. I never took the time to go before, although I walked by it every day on my way to work. I always thought I’d have time “later.” I suspect that people all around the world now have time to do the things that they put off before, but now can’t do them because of the ... 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

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