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We set off early Thursday morning with a salute from the hotel alpaca and friend. Although we only needed to walk a few hundred meters from the Tunupa Lodge to the train station, we needed to arrive well before our …

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As I noted in the post about Pisaq, researching the material in these posts is something of a pre and post-travel temporal stew. If I expect it’s a subject I’ll cover in depth I’ll have compiled tens of pages of …

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Pisaq – Fighting the urge. One of the leitmotifs of this journal is, “We don’t know.” Pisaq is another case in point (or counterpoint). No one really knows precisely why or when Pisaq was built. The general consensus for the …