Tag: Cusco
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![Cusco, not dangerous enough! [35/50]](https://www.craigbellamy.net/images//wpid-img_4856.jpg)
Cusco, not dangerous enough! [35/50]
Some people travel forever on predefined routes (and not just geographically). It’s not that the places they go are necessarily breaking bad, it is just that there are always many more options. The herd goes to Galapagos when Manu is possibly better. The crowd goes to Rio when Puerto Maldonado has far less rabid street…
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![Walking the Lares Valley trek [34/50]](https://www.craigbellamy.net/images//wpid-mg_5195.jpg)
Walking the Lares Valley trek [34/50]
About 100 Kms outside Cusco branching off the famous Sacred Valley, with it’s numerous Inca ruins, is the Lares Valley that is possibly the most pretty valley that I have ever traversed. Peru and the other Andean countries are not short of valleys, and there are thousands of them each with their own unique geographic…
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![Walk like an Inca [33/50]](https://www.craigbellamy.net/images//wpid-img_4786.jpg)
Walk like an Inca [33/50]
The Incas in the 16th Century controlled an empire of states and bands of indigenous South Americans that stretched from the south of Colombia to just below Santiago in Chile. To connect the empire, they constructed a vast and complex road network, similar to the Romans in Eurasia, but unlike the Romans, the Incas had…