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Travelblog (Free subscription) | 10/05/2008
After breakfast this morning our guide took us to Piquillacta located about 20 miles outside of Cusco toward Puno. Piquillacta is the most important of the preInca construction here in Cusco. Built by the Huari culture between A.D. 700 and 900 it is made up more than 700 adobe structures that may have housed as many as 10000 people.After Piquillacta we headed to the small town of Andahuaylil...
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Travelblog (Free subscription) | 10/04/2008
I will add more details and photos later...someone is waiting for the computerThis morning after breakfast at our hotel we were picked up and taken to Lima Airport to catch a 1210 flight to Cusco. Short side note Lima Airport has a Dunkin Donuts... we dont even have a Dunkin Donuts in California. The flight was a little more than an hour and after collecting our bags we met with our driv
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Travelblog (Free subscription) | 4 hours ago
... by a tapir and a sloth up a tree! Plethora also of very attractive butterflies. Midday flight to Cusco and the delights of altitude management, but so far so good for the three of us - although others have been troubled. Mild headaches so far for us. In a whirlwind day and a half we have seen the markets in Pisac, a cameloid farm, a weaving demo, a visit to an archaeological site in Moray...
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BeerAdvocate (Free subscription) | 10/09/2008
... "CUS-KENYA," was created by German entrepreneurs who founded the Cervesur Brewery in 1908 in Cusco, the seat of the Ancient Inca Empire. The brewery is located near Machu Picchu, the mystical lost city that is an extraordinary example of the superior craftsmanship of the ancient Inca civilization - craftsmanship that is echoed in the way Cusqueña is brewed.The product is available wherever...
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The Earth Times Online Newspaper (Free subscription) | yesterday
... a broad anti- rebel operation in the VRAE region, comprising the provinces of Junin, Ayacucho and Cusco, where there is also a strong presence of drug traffickers. Remnants of Shining Path are present in some jungle and Andean areas of Peru. The group was very active in the 1980s, as it exercised great violence in its self-declared quest to set up a communist regime. However, Shining Path...
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Travelblog (Free subscription) | 10/09/2008
... or how badly the pass hurts us. From there we take a bus to Lima and hopefully catch a flight to Cusco with my honey... Gotta run- our hotel locks us out after 10... Adios JJ «
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Travelblog (Free subscription) | 10/08/2008
... in Aguas Calientes at about 11:30 and now have about 3 hours to kill before the train ride back to Cusco. Now we´re off to try some Mexican food at a place located next to the bus stop and then it´s back to our hotel in Cusco. Tomorrow we fly to Puerto Maldonado!
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Travelblog (Free subscription) | 10/09/2008
... the new high tech camping stoves that they sell at EMS (JetBoil etc.) is not readily available in Cusco, so you are better off using a stove that takes regular unleaded gas. I personally got very sick from the altitude, so I didn't eat for three days, therefore I actually didn't need to bring any food aside from a few power bars. 3. Study the maps carefully. We purchased a GPS trail map,...
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PR News Wire (Free subscription) | 10/08/2008
... AuthorHouse - ).
Readers quickly meet Monica Rodriguez, who returns to her beloved
hometown of Cusco, Peru, to start her first job after graduating from
university. Around the same time, Peter Martin, a young geology student,
gets an assignment from his university to help study the ancient tunnels
underneath the Incan capital city of Cusco. Peter meets Monica on his first
day in...
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IOL (Free subscription) | 10/08/2008
Lima, Peru - Protests are sweeping Peru as thousands march in at least five cities to protest the government's economic policies.Prosecutor Cecilia Ampuero says some 300 construction workers smashed car windows with sticks and rocks in the streets of Arequipa, about 470 miles (750 kilometres) southeast of Lima, while two protesters were detained for vandalism.Hundreds of demonstrators clogged Cusco's...
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Travelblog (Free subscription) | 10/06/2008
Photos coming soon...my camera doesnt work with these hotel computersThis morning after breakfast we set out with a bus group to the Sacred Valley. Because were heading to Machu Picchu tomorrow and you cannot take big luggage with you on the train we left our suitcases in storage at our hotel in Cusco and headed out with 3 days worth of clothing stuffed into backpacks.Our first stop of the da...
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www.770EasternParkway.com (Free subscription) | 10/03/2008
From Bangkok to Cusco, Dharamsala to Pucon, thousands of Israelis will be celebrating the Jewish New Year in Chabad houses around the world. Anat Shalev Nothing spells family like the holidays, but then again – nothing spells a holiday for many Israelis quite as much as traveling abroad. Those choosing to spend Rosh Hashana outside Israel, may find themselves welcoming the Jewish New Year in...
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SOCIALIST UNITY (Free subscription) | 10/04/2008
... was quick…for now. My relation to this case goes back to my childhood in Huanoquite, Paruro, Cusco, when I got the news that the landowner Bartolomé Paz had let the buttocks of an indigenous farmer be branded with hot iron, with his initials: BP. Of course Mr. Paz was not arrested, that was not possible since he was a respected man. That act probably decided the purpose of my life. Now his...
