Cuzco posts

by Sean McLachlan (RSS feed) (1 month ago)
Oct 16th, 2009 at 10:00AM: Castles make a pretty backdrop to any vacation. They conjure up images of brave knights and damsels in distress, but the reality was less romantic. Castles were fortifications built to defend important cities, ports, fords, or mountain passes. The best military minds in the world devised ways to destroy them, when they weren't figuring out better ways to build them. Here are ten castles that ...

by Tom Johansmeyer (RSS feed) (5 months ago)
Jun 30th, 2009 at 10:30AM: Intrepid Travel puts together some amazing trips, and today's deal will make them even more accessible than usual. For the next nine hours, trips will be discounted deeply ... all Intrepid trips ... more than 400 of them. Price cuts range from 15 percent to 60 percent in this rare opportunity.
Trips departing soonest, of course, come with the greatest price breaks. Book an excursion that leaves ...

by Kraig Becker (RSS feed) (8 months ago)
Mar 15th, 2009 at 10:00AM: The BootsnAll Travel site has a great article up listing the highest cities in the world. Amsterdam doesn't make this list however, as we're talking the cities that fall at the highest altitude. These mountain communities will have you gasping for air as soon as you step off the plane, both with their thin air and stunning mountain scenery. Topping the list as the highest city in the world is La ...

by Iva Skoch (RSS feed) (1 year ago)
Feb 26th, 2008 at 4:30PM: Peruvians ended two days of protests against new laws allowing more development near historic sites. Rail service to the Inca ruins at Machu Picchu reopened and the nearest regional airport at Cuzco also reopened. The airport had been closed since Thursday when protestors stormed the facility and piled rocks and trees onto roads, according to AP.
Local leaders protested two laws, originally ...