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April 3rd, 2012 | Peru

More Cuzco…

It was a good thing I canceled my half day tour, as it poured with rain for most of the morning… Cuzco was cold and dreary, so I stayed in my room, writing the posts on my exit from Bolivia and arrival in Cuzco…

During the previous day’s tour, I bumped into Adrian Alarcon and […]

April 1st, 2012 | Peru

Machu Picchu….!!

Tintin in "Prisoners of the Sun"…

I first came into contact with the word “Inca” when I was about 12 years old… I had collected all of the “Tintin” books and in “Prisoners of the Sun” the intrepid journalist found himself high in the Andes and about to be burnt at the stake […]

March 30th, 2012 | Peru

Juliaca to Cuzco…

I was unable to get the early strat that I had hoped for, because the local cell phone provider where I had spent an hour the previous evening trying to get the Peruvian sim card to work, had asked that I come back this morning to get it sorted…

The Le Merced church […]

March 29th, 2012 | Bolivia

Out of Bolivia and into Peru…

By the time I had left La Paz, I figured that the remainder of the day would be straightforward… I had dealt with the traffic and the petrol “crisis”, so how much more excitement could there be ahead…??

At this point I was about halfway to the border, and things were going quite […]