Trip to the market in a tuk-tuk (or mototaxi)

Pisco Week 1

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October 7th 2007
So Week One is finished. So I´ve only worked Thursday to Saturday, but my back certainly feels like it´s experienced a lifetime of hard graft on a Siberian work camp. I arrived on Thursday, having been warned by a knife-wielding man in the hostel in Lima that I would be raped and murdered and hidden in a ruin in bandit-country Pisco (that was before he tried to get me to be his "Partner" on an a ... read more

South America » Peru » Ica » Pisco

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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