Cusco - Day 2 (Saqsaywaman, Cristo Blanco, Tambomachay and Santo Domingo Cathedral)
February 29th 2016 Overnight one of our group was stuck down with the dreaded TD so it was only 13 of us (plus Gina and Breytzi) who walked down to the front of the Dominican Convent of Santo-Domingo to board a bus that would take us on a tour of the Incan ruins to be found in and around Cuzco.
First we headed up to the fortress of Saqsaywaman along some very narrow, windy streets. On one particularly tight hairp
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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 
