 | Spanglish
2009-10-01, Cuzco, Peru. By: dilleybug | | Steve and I are taking a week long course in the spanish language this week in Cuzco, which is proving to be very involved and muy bueno. Bueno for me anyway, I am the only one in my class, and they a... |
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 | Three beers between the thr... I mean two of us.
2009-09-28, Cuzco, Peru. By: dilleybug | | This was the exact drunken slur emitted from Stevos mouth after we shared three Cuscuña Grandes. Good beer and way too much of it. We had a set menu dinner and drinks and played Gin until it was time... |
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 | Bustling Metropolis
2009-09-26, Cuzco, Peru. By: dilleybug | | We have made it to the big city of Cuzco. It has taken a couple of days to get settled in...
I think everywhere one goes, the land - the people - have a sort of pace. A rhythm. One of my favorite t... |
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 | Hola de Cuzco!
2009-06-25, Cuzco, Peru. By: wcaruso | | Hello everyone! I am now in Cuzco, a small Incan villiage south of Lima with cobblestone streets and way more locals than tourists. We arrived here early Monday morning via plane and I did not do too... |
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 | Ruins
2009-05-02, Cuzco, Peru. By: allyssaa | | The ruins near/overlooking Cuzco were built in a zigzag pattern and only 1/3 of the original construction is still on location because the rocks were taken to build the churches and other buildings in... |
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 | Cuzco
2009-05-03, Cuzco, Peru. By: allyssaa | | The tour that was planned was canceled because of festivities and the place we were going to tour was closed. It was an important day, celebration of the formation of the republic of Peru, or somethin... |
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 | Camelids
2009-04-30, Cuzco, Peru. By: allyssaa | | We went to a camelid farm. Saw all the alpacas and llamas and also saw some wild vicuñas and guanacos. We also watched some ladies weaving. It was cool to touch the animals and to see most of the proc... |
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 | Week forty - Cuzco - Aguas Calientes - Puno
2008-11-17, Cuzco, Peru. By: rabbitts | | I ve clocked up nine months on the road with my disintegrating expensive Osprey rucksack. This week coincides with the day I decided to go travelling, the 20th November. Little did I know last year o... |
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| Hola mi amigo! ¿Como estas? Me gusta Español :)
2008-09-11, Cuzco, Peru. By: katsmith | | You'll be pleased (and highly entertained if you know anything about my language-learning history) to know that not only did my first Spanish lesson go fine, but my teacher so far thinks I'm some kind... |
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| The first of many blogs from my Peruvian hovel
2008-09-09, Cuzco, Peru. By: katsmith | | I'm now in Cuzco yet again - this my fourth time now! - but I'm staying here for the next 5 weeks so I might actually stand a chance of getting up to date with everything I should have done weeks ago ... |
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 | Protests in Cuzco
2008-01-22, Cuzco, Peru. By: lostrock | | The last few days in Cuzco there have been small protests but today there was a huge one and we got right in the middle of it taking hundreds of images. Had to be thousands of people marching, chanti... |
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| Landslide
2008-01-18, Cuzco, Peru. By: lostrock | | Its about a fourteen hour ride from Nazca to Cuzco thru the mountains but this particular trip turned into a 24 hour ordeal. At some point while we were going thru the mountains a landslide happened,... |
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| Heart of the Inca empire
2008-01-20, Cuzco, Peru. By: lostrock | | What a great town and not as dangerous as I was made to believe. Upon first arrival had to deal with sorroche or altitude sickness since the town is almost at 3000m but rested for a couple days and d... |
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 | Not seen Paddington yet!
2008-01-04, Cuzco, Peru. By: leariott | | Arrive safely after long travel, up about 26hs and delays at both Sau Paulo in Brazil and in Lima, Peru, but better than flying in thunderstorm, we think! Hotel nice
Will send more pictures soon, ... |
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 | Safe Arrival in Cuzco
2006-06-30, Cuzco, Peru. By: Aenglish84 | | We arrive to the unique city of Cuzco that rests over 11,000 feet above sealevel. What an amazing city with such a different culture. Tomorrow we head to Aguas Calintes where we will stay in a hotel a... |
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 | One month of outreach!
2007-04-30, Cuzco, Peru. By: chaveiro | | Yes it's true, a month of outreach already! We can look back at a beautiful time of doing God's work in South America.
So Argentina is behind us and we're focused on Peru now.
Argentina's highes... |
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 | A day at a Peruvian Spa
2006-12-03, Cuzco, Peru. By: lindy | | I had a wonderful day today. First it started with running into my friend Steffan, a Swiss guy I met in Huancayo who speaks and interesting mixture of French, Italian, Spanish, and English...and we g... |
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 | The Inca Trail
2006-12-02, Cuzco, Peru. By: lindy | | The Inca Trail was one of my favorite travel experiences! I guess that doesn´t come as a big surprise, but it was amazing and worth every penny! The first day was about an 8km walk mostly on Peruvian... |
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 | what is going on?!?!
2006-11-20, Cuzco, Peru. By: lindy | | It has been a little while since I´ve written, and a whirlwind of events have happened! First we headed to Nazca which was relatively uneventful, the plane ride over the lines was over 50 dollars so I... |
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 | Cuzco - Inca Capital
2006-08-06, Cuzco, Peru. By: kieron | | After departing my hostel early in the morning, still out of it from the 20 lines of coke the day before, I decided no more coke for me no matter how good for “de heaaad” it is…
The flight was spec... |
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 | Special price for you
2006-07-22, Cuzco, Peru. By: mishiva | | Comforted by the warmth of 3 thick blankets, we roused unbelievably late at past 9am. Having seen most of the sights and many churches in Cuzco, there was little on the agenda for the day. Thus, despi... |
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 | Senorita! Amiga!
2006-07-21, Cuzco, Peru. By: mishiva | | With teeth chattering, we arrived in Cuzco (3326m) as the sun started to peek. We made our way into the town centre and found a pleasant room in the colonial Hostal Machu Picchu. Lacking heating, we ... |
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 | cuzco and beyond
2006-07-03, Cuzco, Peru. By: jonavida | | we are a little behind in recounting our adventures so far. well, cuzco was hard at first because of the altitude and i (jona) felt it much more than vida. i had to take it slow and not push myself ... |
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 | The Puma City
2006-07-01, Cuzco, Peru. By: jonavida | | We are now in Cuzco, the heart of Peru, a city the Incas planned to look like a puma from above. At 3328 m, the altitude is a major factor in doing anything for the first few days. Jonathan started ... |
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 | A few days on my own, and a few not....
2005-05-31, Cuzco, Peru. By: RooinPeru | | Hi team. Me again.
Well, a brief update of the last 5 days or so. Sue headed off on the Inca Trail bright and VERY early on Thursday 26th May. I put my blinkers on, and my earplugs in and went s... |
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 | We made it to Heaven.....
2005-05-25, Cuzco, Peru. By: RooinPeru | | Yes, we are in Cuzco, Peru, one of the most beautiful cities in the world. Still in the time of the Incas, with original buildings and stonework. The good news is that apart from being a lot busier,... |
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 | 1203AM Christmas morning
2004-12-25, Cuzco, Peru. By: empathy | | It´s 1203 am christmas day here in cuzco peru.
I sit alone in a small room filled with computers while teenagers and young boys set off fire works outside.
The center of town is closed to cars as ... |
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 | Dear Mr. K. Livingstone
2004-12-10, Cuzco, Peru. By: S0ck3t | | Dear Mr. K. Livingstone,
As an avid fan of both yourself and your breath taking initiatives for Transport for London I thought you would appreciate my thoughts on how your bus system could be furth... |
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 | The Road to Choquequirao
2004-10-04, Cuzco, Peru. By: ajaszeno | | Road to where?
Choquequirao (commonly referred to as Choquekirao, Chokekirao, Choqekirao, Choquekirau, Choquekiraw, Chokekiraw, or Choquequiraw) certainly lacks the name recognition of its famous si... |
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 | Loco in Cuzco
2003-06-05, Cuzco, Peru. By: Alex_RTW | | Hi everyone, at last the thing seems to be up and running, so here goes with the very first posting...
We had a great and relaxing week in Miami. After the first couple of days where the weather wa... |
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 | Cuzco
2002-10-08, Cuzco, Peru. By: kyt | | One shot from the recent elections in Cuzco. |
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 | IncaTrail and Machu Picchu
2002-11-28, Cuzco, Peru. By: Flyin_Scot | | The Inca Trail and Machu Picchu
Now there are numerous exciting ways to get to Machu Picchu, an Inca City lost for approximately 400 years until Hiram Bingham rediscovered it in 1912. Now its poss... |
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 | Tourist traps!
2002-07-13, Cuzco, Peru. By: aditi | | Woke up late and had an "american" breakfast at the Pension Alemana (our hotel). Since we couldnt go river rafting we walked around town, mainly in San Blas and the square. there are lots of people dr... |
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| Rainy Cuzco
2002-07-11, Cuzco, Peru. By: aditi | | Woke up at 5 this mornign to catch the lanperu flight to cuzco. when we got here it was raining... and freezing... mucho mucho frio. we are staying at a little swiss hotel which is really nice, but to... |
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