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Copacabana, Condors and The Colca Canyon

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January 26th 2011
We last left you back in La Paz at the very start of the year. From there we jumped on a bus to Copacabana (of Lake Tititcaca fame, not the big waved, high bikinied Copacabana of Rio de Janeiro). The bus trip was pretty uneventful, although we did have to disembark at one point, and we all caught little wooden boats across a narrow section of the lake, whilst our bus caught a micro-barge which ... 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