Restoration in progress

Almost all of the walls that you can see at Piquillaqta have been restored. Only some of the walls, like these terraces, were built solidly enough to have withstood hundreds of years of abandonment.

COVID in Cusco: Week 32

October 24th 2020
Sunday 18 October 219 days since Covid arrived in Cusco The rains have finally arrived! I woke up to a rainy morning in Urubamba, the kind of rainy morning that makes me hum the lyrics “I’m only happy when it rains” by Garbage. Being born in Seattle is not the only thing that makes me love rain, the hills around Cusco which have either been either yellow with dry grass, or black with ... read more

South America » Peru » Cusco » Cusco

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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