Pachacutec

Photos from Cusco and The Mtn. School

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November 23rd 2010
This week has been pretty cool so far. I volunteered at a school in the Mountains yesterday the children were so cute and all of them wanted to be held and given airplane rides. We played "Duck, Duck, Goose" and had some hoola hoop competitions. When we were walking around back in town I fell in a hole on the street because I was distracted by what my friend was showing me. No major injury just r ... 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