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Huaraz & the Santa Cruz trek

May 23rd 2010
Hooray! I left Lima on Sunday 23rd May on an 8-hour bus journey to Huaraz in the Cordillera Blanca. After about 3 and a half hours, we finally left the fogginess that is coastal Peru and began to see some rather lovely landscape. Huaraz is a town surrounded by mountains, many of them snow-capped, which was levelled during an earthquake in the Seventies. As a consequence, it´s not really much to l ... read more
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Peruvian Flag 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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