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    • TravelerPietertje Trip
      Day 3

      The Kings of Freedom

      January 9, 2023 in Peru ⋅ 🌧 11 °C

      So the Campervan exist and seems in ok shape. Tomorrow check out with a mechanic what needs to be done to get it moving. Also we are now getting the car released out of Covid 19 restrictions. A bureaucratic proces with the customs. Further we learned that we cannot cross over to Bolivia which was sort of a plan. Nobody knows when roads will be unblocked due to the political situation in Peru.Read more

    • Peru
      Day 18

      Abenteuer Regenwald, Manu Tag 3

      March 18 in Peru ⋅ ☁️ 16 °C

      Nachdem wir alle zusammen in der Lodge gefrühstückt haben, ging ein kleiner Teil nochmals eine Stunde auf Tierbeobachtung. Man konnte z.B. Tapirspuren sehen und Spuren eines Gürteltiers. Am Nachmittag gegen 14 Uhr machten wir die eigentlich für vormittags noch geplante Tour zu einem Lagunensee, der dadurch entstand, als der Fluss Rio Madre de Dios seinen Weg änderte. Auf dem Weg zum Boot sahen wir noch ein paar Eichhörnchenaffen. Ca. 15 min Bootfahrt entfernt erlangten wir unser Ziel. Vom Ufer des Flusses wanderten wir ca. 45 Minuten über Steine, durch Wasserläufe und Urwald zum See, wo wir mit Floßen über den See schipperten. Von einem 15 m hohen Aussichtsturm ließen sich Camungos (Hornwehrvögel) und Hoatzine (Stinkybirds) beobachten. Erstere geben unheimlich laute Rufe von sich 🤭. Der Hoatzin (Opisthocomus hoazin), auch Schopfhuhn, Zigeunerhuhn oder Stinkvogel genannt, ist eine Vogelart, dessen Verwandtschaft völlig ungeklärt ist und wird meistens einer eigenen Familie und Ordnung zugeordnet. Von allen anderen Vögeln unterscheidet sich der Hoatzin durch sein an Wiederkäuer erinnerndes Verdauungssystem. Der Hornwehrvogel ist ein großer, hühnerartig wirkender Vogel mit ziemlich hohen Beinen und einer komischen „Antenne“ auf dem Kopf 🤭. Er erreicht ausgewachsen eine Körperlänge von 84 Zentimetern und wiegt dann zwischen zwei und drei Kilogramm. Interessant!
      Wieder eine Dreiviertelstunde zurück im tropischen Regenwald- das ist wahrlich nicht mein Klima! Die „Brühe“ läuft so schnell und man ist völlig fertig. Mit den Gummistiefeln über große unförmige Steine zu laufen, macht die Sache nicht einfacher. Mir taten so die Füße weh! Renate tat auch einen unbedachten Schritt - und landete im Schlamm🤭…
      Die Option, noch einen Nightwalk zu machen, lehnten wir allesamt dankend ab.
      Da saßen wir lieber mit unseren letzten Bieren und dem Rest vom Anisschnaps noch auf der Veranda und unterhielten uns, bis die Gläser leer und die Augen schwer wurden.      Read more

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    • TravelerThe Americas
      Day 40

      Cusco Museum

      April 2 in Peru ⋅ ☁️ 16 °C

      Despite having spent considerable time in Cusco, today was the first time we had been able to explore the city sites. We had been busy in the surrounding regions and the shopping scene. As such, we headed to the first museum of the day. This explained the ancient and colonial history of the city of cusco and Eastern South America. I found the ancient history much more interesting as we learnt about the Nazca Empire, the Wari Empire, and how these civilisations helped birth the much more famous Inca Empire. A lot of the attributes, traits, and characteristics that we attribute to the Incas are often adaptions or direct adoptions from early empires. Nonetheless, it was nice to learn about their lifestyle and traditions from a much older time. After exploring here, we then headed toward the large Qorikancha, an old temple and retrofitted cathedral during colonial periods. This was a beautiful building and a quite interesting museum. This focused much more on art and building practices than the last, so it was good at completing the picture of life in the incan Empire. We tried to finish off the day in Saqsaywaman (literally pronounced sexy woman) to overlook the city and enjoy the sunset. The entry was close to 30 AUD each, however, and given we wouldn't have time to explore a large portion of the site, we figured it wasn't worth the money. As such, we enjoyed the highest view we could find and headed down for a drink. The view wasn't acceptional as it doesn't quite grasp the beauty of the city on a street to street basis. The lack of large buildings or large parks makes it not that enjoyable of a view from the mountainside. Nonetheless, we had to do it. As we headed down for a couple of drinks, we stumbled across what we could only guess was some form of corn festival. They love their corn, and as we saw in Moray, they have purposefully created over 900 varieties of corn. Because it was the last day of the wet season, and the dry season was beginning, they had a festival to celebrate. This was interesting and cool. People danced, carried golden corn, and gave speeches. We sat in admiration before going and getting our drink. This was going to be the end of our time in cusco, and we thoroughly enjoyed it. I will have to come back and do some of the other hikes and activities in the region.Read more

    • TravelerPeru - Girls on the Go 2022
      Day 12

      Convento de Santo Domingo del Cusco

      May 24, 2022 in Peru ⋅ ⛅ 68 °F

      Another convent, this one with a setup for tourists explaining how the Incan stone architecture underlies pretty much all of the churches and old buildings in Cusco. Once you know what to look for, you realize it's EVERYWHERE. In the many earthquakes, the Incan stonework survives; the newer construction collapses regularly (it turns out that arches don't hold up well against earthquakes). Cuzco is described as the bellybutton of the Incan world. There was a cool representation of Incan settlements, radiating out from Cuzco. They extend up to Ecuador and down into Argentina. How in the world could the Inca plot it out so exactly? Still thinking aliens! 👽Read more

    • TravelerAround the world
      1
      Day 24

      Cusco nr 2

      August 31, 2023 in Peru ⋅ ☁️ 18 °C

      Auf unserer gestrigen Tour standen 4 Ziele auf der Liste.

      Das erste Ziel ist schon einen eigenen Bericht wert.

      Aus der Inka Zeit ist von dem Sonnentempel noch das zu sehen, was die Spanier übrig gelassen haben.
      Aller Goldschmuck, und das müssen Tonnen gewesen sein,
      Wurden an den spanischen Hog gebracht.
      Zu sehen sind die Mauern, die in einer super perfekten Handarbeit zubereitet und ohne Mörtel zu Mauern aufgebaut wurden.
      Man kann sich kaum vorstellen, wie lange ein jeder Stein bearbeitet wurde.
      Aus Aufzeichnungen ist überliefert, das 30.000 Arbeiter 7 Jahre beschäftigt waren.
      Bemerkenswert ist auch die erdbebensichere Konstruktion.
      Die Steine sind in leichter Trapezform gearbeitet und in einer leichten Neigung aufgerichtet. Kein noch so starkes Erdbeben hat dem Wunderwerk was Angaben können.
      Mit 1532 kamen auch die Dominikaner, die den Inkas mit dem Schwert das Seelenglück beibrachten
      Sie bauten auf dem Heiligtum der Inkas ihre Klosterkirche.

      Ich hoffe, dass die Fotos die Perfektion der Inka Reste wiedergeben

      Now in English ( short form)

      Our yesterday tour brought us to 4 highlights in this region.
      The first one is worth for an own report.

      The Inkas had as their major god the sun.
      And in Cusco, their capital they built a big Tempel for the sun.
      It is unbelievable, which which perfection they did it. The stones were prepared exactly, that they could used and be put together without any glue.
      Their construction survived any earthquake since more than 600 year.
      After the Spanisch army took everything of interest Bach to Spain, the Dominikaner minks built a Catholic Church on top of they holy Inka Place

      I hope, my fotos can show the beautiful Inka stone work      Read more

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    • TravelerAndenreise
      Day 16

      Cusco

      April 18 in Peru ⋅ ☁️ 18 °C

      Hotel palacio del Inka hinaus und über die Strasse ins Kloster Santa Domingo das über dem Inka Sonnen Tempel Coricancha gebaut wurde. Festung Sacsayhuaman von den Inkas mit Blick über die Stadt, Puka Pukara die rote Festung, eine Grabstätte und eine Wasser stelle der Inkas! Das schönste ist aber die Kathedrale!!!Read more

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    • TravelerSouth- and Central America
      Day 68

      Chilled day: Museum + chocolate worsksho

      March 11, 2023 in Peru ⋅ ☁️ 16 °C

      After sleeping out I had breakfast at the hostel with a nice conversation with a hostel stuff. I made laundry and wanted to go to one museum ( inca Raritäten) which is not open. I will do it on Monday.

      Then I went after one cappuccino to a the museum Coricancha Qurikancha, which was the sun temple ( the biggest temple in Cusco, Cusco= Capital of the Incas) of the Incas.

      OMG I learned so much today about the Incas in this museum!:

      - the Museum was the Tempel of the sun, before it was damaged by the Spains
      - size: the Incas were at the biggest till 1532 from kolumbia till Santiago
      -Stones: they had so different stones for different usage and their temples had so much steps and in the temples the sun with a face inside was their main symbol teine
      - Inca calendar
      - Inca Astronomie (explains the Nisca lines?)
      - in the museum were Spanish and Inca stuff, but the Spanish stuff did not interested me so much.
      - they had a Temple of the sun, rainbow, moon, lightning, Venus, stars and the highest priest.
      - they sacrificed kids
      -They had in our winter fasting months
      - they involved patcha mama!

      —> the Spanish damaged so much and it is crazy, that they used all material for their cathedrales and churches again. Ruining a culture, idiots.

      Resume: OMG I felt in love with that museum and their culture, that’s the reason I I stayed 3h there. The bell tower there was my last steps.

      P.S. : I payed the entrance for a student haha, but unfortunately not for Machu Pichu😂 physical card blah blah

      So I was lucky, that I had not to wait for the chocolate workshop in the chocolate museum, because I informed about that yesterday.

      It was super interesting to make my own chocolate, got in touch with the process of making and to try different chocolates. (Over 65% it is to bitter for me) facts:

      -There are three kinds of chocolate: dark, milk and white, which is in the industry not natural made.
      - Peru has of the best Kakaos, because of their diversity ( also Brazil and south west Africa) otherwise chocolate is best at Belgium and Swiss
      - white chocolate will be done after pressing the cold chocolate

      My selfmade chocolate tasted amazing and I did the course with an introverted and strange American called Cliff.

      I bought some stuff for the 2 days one night trip to Machu Pichu. I decided myself against the Inca trail or the salkantatrek(should be amazing), because it would be to long and to expensive. Also agains the train, because two ways are 120€. My buses are 20

      So the evening was against chilled and I am looking forward to Machu Pichu.

      Bus to hydroelectrica—> 3h hike to agua calientes and sleep there. —> 2h hike to Machu Pichu —> 2-3h there —> 3h down to hydroelectrica and pick up at 14:15. back in the hostel at ~9pm. Sleep one night there, Inca museum and then off too nisca lines!      Read more

    • TravelerPeru, Bolivia, Chile
      Day 18

      Cusco

      September 17, 2023 in Peru ⋅ ☁️ 17 °C

      Kurzer Zwischenstopp in Cusco bevor es in den Dschungel geht.
      Nach dem Inca Trail war erstmal Pause angesagt und so entspannte ich 2 Tage in Cusco mit Leuten, die ich kennengelernt habe. Es ging zur Massage, es wurde viel Kaffee getrunken, auf dem Markt wurde gegessen und Saft getrunken und ein Museum wurde auch besucht. Dann ging es mit dem Nachtbus nach Puerto Maldonado.Read more

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    • Steve CatterallMachu piccu & galapagos
      Day 8

      Exploring cusco region

      November 14, 2022 in Peru ⋅ ⛅ 10 °C

      Really nice hotel, excellent breakfast, really peaceful and tranquil, complete with harpist !

      Then we set off to see the ruins at qurikancha which was interesting as a church has been built around it. Outside I had to have the obligatory photo with a baby alpaca.Read more

    • TravelerPerù
      Day 1

      San Domenico di Guzman

      October 4, 2022 in Peru ⋅ ☁️ 15 °C

      Chiesa e convento spagnolo costruito su tempio pagano. Oggi si paga per visitarlo e non si può fare un video o una foto...al tempio pagano! Perché non so quanti siano interessati alla chiesa...

      Pittoresca la croce all'esterno, ricoperta con una sciarpa colorata. Era la mia prima e mi ha colpito...poi ho visto non essere così inusuale.      Read more

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    You might also know this place by the following names:

    Qurikancha, Temple du soleil

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