Cuzco

... 68-69 Salar de Uyuni Days 70-71 Potosi Days 72-73 La Paz Days 74-75 Copacabana Day 76 Puno Days 77-78 Cuzco Days 79-82 Classic Inca Trail/Quechua Community Trek Day 83 Machu Picchu/Cuzco Day 84 Cuzco Day 85 Raqchi Homestay Days 86-87 ...

... , farewells to family and friends, a Royal Wedding celebration in Hyde Park and  a marathon 26 hour journey, we finally arrived in Cuzco. First impressions were very good,  but lack of sleep, jet lag and the altitude (11,000 ft) had wiped us ...

... een heel indrukwekkende site, een combinatie van een fort en een tempel, hoog boven en met zicht op de Incahoofdstad Cuzco. De verschillende bouwstenen (sommigen tot 8 meter groot!!!)zijn hier weer zo naadloos in elkaar gepast, volgens een systeem ...

... you get to see the good side, the bad side and the ugly side of the entire country in one mad, crazy, charming little city. Cuzco is undoubtedly very beautiful with the best preserved colonial centre in the whole of the continent, and it's got some of the ...

... after nearly half a millennium it does not seem like the city is an amalgam of Spanish and Indian any more than Cuzco's colonial buildings, resting on those Inca foundations, can be said to be an architectural fusion of those cultures. The European sets ...

... . This is an Irish bar, which touts itself as the ``highest-placed Irish-owned bar on the planet". I order a Quesquena - the local Cuzco beer - and chat with the owner (Paddy). He noticed me reading my guidebook and was curious to see what the latest ...