Cuzco

To Cuzco and Reflection....

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September 16th 2006
We got up this morning at 4:30 since we needed to leave the house at 5:30 AM for a 6:30 AM flight to Lima. I said my goodbyes last night to the other volunteers. What a wonderful group of people!!! The plane was VERY, VERY small!! There were 8 rows with one seat on each side with a very tiny narrow aisle that you had to hunch over to walk down. So that makes 16 passengers on this plane. On ... 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