Cuzco

Peru - part 1: April 1st - April 14th 2011

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April 18th 2011
Sorry for the 2 month delay in getting this written and online, we quite simply have been having too much fun doing better things! Better late than never..... We caught a colectivo taxi across the border between Chile and Peru. It was fairly straight forward and our clocks went backwards by two hours due to the time difference. Tacna is a shabby looking border town, so the plan was to get a ... read more

South America » Peru

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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