Pisac market

Sacred Valley Day Trip

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June 19th 2007
We started out the day with breakfast again at the hotel, then gathered our things for our scheduled trip of The Sacred Valley. We were picked up in a minibus at our hotel at 8:30 AM and then rode down to the main part of town to get on a bus with some others. We also picked up our tour guide for the day, Puma. We drove in typical Peruvian suicidal fashion up to the ruins of Sacsayhuaman where th ... 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