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  Andrew 10:29 AM on August 25, 2005 Permalink
  Tags: Cusco ( 2 ), Machu Picchu ( 3 ), Peru   

  Peru in Review: Cusco and Machu Picchu 

  (After my Nikon was stolen my lowly hiptop stepped up and saved the day; unfortunately I couldn’t get any pictures off of it until I got back to Canada, so here they are…)

  

  This is downtown Cusco, as seen from my 5th-floor “suite” at the Savoy Hotel. The large building across the street is the arts and crafts outlet.

  

  If you head northwest to the central plaza, you’ll find all manner of tourist activities, like the opportunity to pet this baby llama… For a price.

  

  Who could resist a restaurant with a guy in a chicken outfit as its doorman? Not me…

  

  More photographic evidence of yours truly at Machu Picchu…

  

  … And the mosquito bites I got there that flared up a couple of days later.

  Andrew Currie and Blance Nieto are discussing. Toggle Comments

   
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    Blance Nieto 3:29 AM on September 3, 2005 Permalink | Reply

    Maybe you can post some photos (free of copyright) about the city of Cuzco since my archive is low on them.

    Regards

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    Blanca Nieto
    Tourism Director
    http://www.Machu-Picchu-Mysteries.Info
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    Andrew Currie 10:56 AM on September 3, 2005 Permalink | Reply

    Hi Bianca,

    Thanks for your comment. Unfortunately, these photos are all I have, as my camera was stolen in big, bad Lima.

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    Andre 1:45 AM on August 20, 2006 Permalink | Reply

    Bianca, if you need some pictures of Cusco or Machu Picchu let me know. I am sure we can work something out.

    Sorry for your stolen camera Andrew!

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    Andrew Currie 8:09 AM on August 20, 2006 Permalink | Reply

    Great photos, Andre!

    You clearly had access to Machu Picchu before the droves of tourists arrived on their day pass, not knowing any better—like me…

    Where’d you stay? The Santuary Lodge Hotel?
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  Andrew 10:40 AM on August 24, 2005 Permalink
  Tags: Lima ( 7 ), Peru   

  Peru in Review: Miraflores 

  (After my Nikon was stolen my lowly hiptop stepped up and saved the day; unfortunately I couldn’t get any pictures off of it until I got back to Canada, so here they are…)

  

  The deserted shoreline of the Pacific Ocean, as seen from Larco Mar… Remember, it’s winter here!

  

  The shoreline by night; many of those twinkling lights are high-rise condos where all the young upwardly-mobile Limans (?) live.

  

  … And La Rosa Nautica, one of Lima’s most famous tourist traps restaurants.

   
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  Andrew 11:14 AM on August 22, 2005 Permalink
  Tags: Lima ( 7 ), Peru   

  Peru in Review: Pre-Incan Art 

  

  (After my Nikon was stolen my lowly hiptop stepped up and saved the day; unfortunately I couldn’t get any pictures off of it until I got back to Canada, so here they are…)

  Here’s a gargoyle of some sort on display at the Museo de la Nacion in Lima.

   
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  Andrew 10:06 PM on August 20, 2005 Permalink
  Tags: Lima ( 7 ), Peru   

  Peru in Review: Heeeeeere’s Lima 

  

  (After my Nikon was stolen my lowly hiptop stepped up and saved the day; unfortunately I couldn’t get any pictures off of it until I got back to Canada, so here they are…)

  As seen from the 17th floor of the Sheraton. The fog is the result of warm air from the Andes mixing with cold air from the Pacific. It hangs around for most of the winter.

   
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  Andrew 2:00 PM on August 19, 2005 Permalink
  Tags: Lima ( 7 ), Peru   

  Peru in Review: Museo de Oro 

  

  (After my Nikon was stolen my lowly hiptop stepped up and saved the day; unfortunately I couldn’t get any pictures off of it until I got back to Canada, so here they are…)

  This is only the walkway to the main building; they don’t allow any photo-snapping of the actual exhibits.

  Well, fakes or not I feel I made the right choice in visiting Lima’s most infamous exhibit. Even before I got to the gold there was an entire floor devoted to all things military—and I do mean all things. For example, there was an entire wall devoted to stirrups, another solely for buttons from tunics. Was Miguel Mujica Gallo obsessive-compulsive or what?

  My favourite was the room devoted to the dress uniforms of various Generalissimos, along with the dueling pistolas given by other world leaders as gifts. And as for the gold, it was in the basement and honestly didn’t impress me as much as the buttons and stirrups.