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Monthly Archives: June 2019
Taking it on the Chinchero
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In the first post about this adventure, I opined that one of the benefits of 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 …
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(What should be) the jewel in Cusco’s crown – part 2
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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 …
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(What should be) The jewel in Cusco’s crown
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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 …
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