Monthly Archives: June 2019

In the first post about this adventure, I opined that one of the benefits of being in a group as small as ours was getting a high level of personal attention from the guide and at no time was that …

It’s a trap! An empire collapses and the gold disappears. I noted in the third post about the real Copacabana that the Spanish first arrived in the Andes in the mid to late 1520s bringing with them the gift of …

As the ninth Inka, Pachakutiq was not a builder of empire alone. He was also a builder – or at least he oversaw numerous important construction projects. Although excavations haven’t conclusively shown when construction began on Qorikancha, most archaeologists believe …