The Moray learn

I am by nature a skeptic and my travels have, in some ways, increased my disinclination to facile credulity. Over time I’ve come to perceive that local guides understandably want tourists to see their country, their city, or even a …

Taking it on the Chinchero

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 …

(What should be) the jewel in Cusco’s crown – part 2

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 …