Cusco!! 20131008_160530

Cusco!!

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October 13th 2013
We arrived at the bus station in Cusco at around 6:30pm and took a taxi over to our hostal (Pantastico Bed & Bakery) in the San Blas area. Whoa!! The taxi started driving down cobblestoned streets hardly wider than the taxi itself!! This place is beautiful!! We had called Pantastico earlier in the day when we passed into Peru and our phone started to work again and they had a 3 bed room for us all ... 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