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May 28, 2019
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Worthy of Spain. It’s been estimated that in 1532 when the the Spaniards arrived, 40,000 people inhabited the city of Cusco proper with another 200,000 in the surrounding district. They entered a planned city filled with typical Inka architecture – …
May 28, 2019
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I ended the previous post with some random facts about the Inkas – a culture we’ll get to know more about over the coming days. But for now, as our bus draws ever nearer to the center of the Inkan …
May 24, 2019
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The oldest city in the Americas. In recounting this trip, I’ve twice touched upon the subject of Huanca Prieta the controversial site north of Lima that appears to upend the conventional assertion about the time the first humans arrived in …