Universidad Nacional Mayor de San Marcos, Lima

Lima, Cuzco, Machu Picchu

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July 30th 2007
My apologies to my faithful readers (if I have any!) of my travel blog; time to write the depth of entries I’m used to writing (and, on some level, need to write so that I can process what I’ve experienced in each of these ports) is much harder to come by these days, mostly because we have such limited time at sea between these last few ports. Ideally, in our last stretch of sailing (5 days fr ... read more

South America » Peru

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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