Mar 27th, 2008 at 7:51AM: A divorced British banker died after a blow to the head on the Inca Trail and was found in a nearby river--and it's raising more than a few eyebrows across the pond. Colin Murphy, 44, disappeared on News Year's day during a Christmas holiday to Peru from the town of Aguas Calientes in the Andes, not far from the Machu Picchu. The last hours of his life were spent with 14 other holidayers, who left ...Click on a label to read posts from that part of the world.
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Murder on the Inca Trail
Mar 27th, 2008 at 7:51AM: A divorced British banker died after a blow to the head on the Inca Trail and was found in a nearby river--and it's raising more than a few eyebrows across the pond. Colin Murphy, 44, disappeared on News Year's day during a Christmas holiday to Peru from the town of Aguas Calientes in the Andes, not far from the Machu Picchu. The last hours of his life were spent with 14 other holidayers, who left ...Train to Machu Picchu reopens
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 ...Yellow Fever: Vaccine Deaths and Outbreaks in South America
Feb 6th, 2008 at 7:00AM: Most travelers to Africa and South America have heard of Yellow Fever, even if only because there are countries within that have mandatory vaccinization requirements. People that live in these "Yellow Fever Zones" (an estimated 508 million in Africa alone) know this disease as a killer. This is also what is happening in Brazil.
ProMED mail, from the International Society of Infectious Disease, ...How are the beaches in Hawaii? Take a look yourself
Jan 28th, 2008 at 9:20AM: I'm sure many of you have a pretty picture of a tropical island or cozy beach hanging up in your office. But here's a thought: what if you could be there, just for a moment (virtually of course). You see, recently a batch of "surf-cam" sites have popped up that hosts streaming videos of various beaches across the states--and around the world--taken by cameras set up on everything from hidden ...Eye-opening ruins (but in Detroit?)
Jan 22nd, 2008 at 9:00AM: There's a trove of clubs that go out and explore urban ruins. And if you really think about it, there's no better place to do that than in Detroit, a city that has been in constant decay for decades (yeah yeah they always seem to have some sort of revitalization project going on). Two especially interesting, abandoned structures in Detroit happens to be the Michigan Central Station and the Detroit ...Snazzy slide-show from NYT readers
Jan 12th, 2008 at 7:15PM: I just came across a well-done slide-show at NYTimes.com entitled "why we travel." It's a travelogue written by everyday travelers with their mini-stories from life on the road. What initially caught my eye was the first slide of a guy jogging at Sacsayhuaman (pronounced "Sexy Woman"), an Inca ruin right outside of Cuszo, Peru. I was there last week and trust me, there were definitely a lot more ...Yale to Hand Back 4000 Artifacts to Machu Picchu
Oct 4th, 2007 at 3:30PM: After years of battling over the thousands of pieces of pottery, jewelry and bones, taken from Machu Picchu 90 years ago, Peru is winning the war. The artifacts were lent to Yale University for 18 months but the university has apparently kept them ever since one of its alumni, U.S. explorer Hiram Bingham, rediscovered Machu Picchu in the Andes in 1911.
Like museums in Greece or Egypt trying to ...Gigapixel Photographs by Scott Howard
Jun 7th, 2007 at 6:00PM:
Scott Howard spent two days in 2005 taking almost 200 photos from an area near the Adler Planetarium to create this gigantic image of the Chicago skyline at night. Using a piece of software called Zoomify, the images were then stitched together and packaged in a Flash project that allows you to zoom in -- waaaaaaay in -- on any part of the image. He used the same technique on two more stunning ...Photo of the Day (8/5/06)
Aug 5th, 2006 at 2:34PM: Now it is true I have eaten many a questionable dish and species in my lifetime, but looking at this South American plate I'm thinking probably not as much as some folks have. Um, yes. According to Morrissey who left this fine gastronomic shot in our Gadling Flickr pool the meat is delicious. What kind of meat is that you ask? Well it's a Cuy (or guinea pig). If you stare a little harder you can ...
