August 31, 2008 | 18 Comments
This blog post is part of my Peru travelog series. Click here for Index pagePrevious post: Cusco the Inca capital | Next post: Moray and Salinas The Sacred Valley of the Incas is a valley in the Andes of Peru, close to the Inca capital of Cusco. The Valley is generally understood to include everything [...]...
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August 28, 2008 | 17 Comments
This blog post is part of my Peru travelog series. Click here for Index pagePrevious post: To the Sacred Valley | Next post: Sacred Valley Cusco (also spelled Cuzco, कुस्को) is the historic capital of the Inca Empire. At an altitude is around 3,300 m, many tourist companies start tours in Peru from Cusco because [...]...
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August 25, 2008 | 9 Comments
This blog post is part of my Peru travelog series. Click here for Index pagePrevious post: Tequile island | Next post: Cusco the Inca capital March ahead, traveler! (copied from my journal, edited ofcourse, but its verbose and long) After a lovely rendezvous with Puno and Lake Titicaca, I am ready to go to the [...]...
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August 23, 2008 | 8 Comments
This blog post is part of my Peru travelog series. Click here for Index pagePrevious post: Amantani island | Next post: To the Sacred Valley The Inca moral community code says, “ama sua, ama llulla, ama qhilla” (Quechua: do not steal, do not lie, do not be lazy.) Taquileños (तकीलेन्योस), inhabitants of the Tequilé (तकीले) [...]...
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August 21, 2008 | 14 Comments
This blog post is part of my Peru travelog series. Click here for Index pagePrevious post: Floating islands of Uros | Next post: Tequile island A welcome break from sleeping in hostels or buses, this night I spent in an authentic Quechuan village in a real home with indigenous people. The tourist company arranged to [...]...
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August 17, 2008 | 12 Comments
This blog post is part of my Peru travelog series. Click here for Index pagePrevious post: Food | Next post: Amantani island Floating islands The Uros is the name of a tribe of pre-Incan people who live on 42 self-fashioned floating man-made islets located in Lake Titicaca off Puno, Peru. The Uros use the Totora [...]...
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August 14, 2008 | 16 Comments
This blog post is part of my Peru travelog series. Click here for Index pagePrevious post: Temple of Fertility| Next post: Floating islands of Uros Shantanu asked me to write something about Peruvian food. Now unlike him, I am not a foodie, so I don’t really enjoy food by the same magnitude as he does. [...]...
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May 18, 2012Thimphu's memorial chorten, built in 1974 to honour the 3rd King of Bhutan, Jigme Dorji Wangchuck, is a prominent landmark in the city with its golden
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