Growing up in India the only Peru I knew of was a tropical fruit (Guava for those whose lingua is English). Not until high school did I discover that it was also a country in the South American continent. So it was this early April week that we decided to hit up Peru - the land of the once glorious Inca people that lived 500 years ago. Today Peru is the third largest country on that continent with a diverse geography that stretches from the drier Pacific coast plains to the high mountains of the Andes and the Amazon river valley to its east. Our trip was primarily a pilgrimage of sorts to visit the last remaining, lost (now found and documented), large scale, mostly undamaged, city of the Inca nobility, called Machu Picchu (MP). The Inca were great architects and builders. MP is a UNESCO world heritage site affording it high visibility to the tourism trade and therefore crowded year round. Our timing was not quite high season allowing us...
Some people never learn..I am referring to the third-time merry- sorry, marrying types..
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