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Advantages: Majestic setting, fascinating relics and history
Disadvantages: Your fellow-visitors, risk of poor visibility, cost

Yes, it looks just like in the photographs. Perched high amid improbably pointy peaks, with sheer slopes dropping away to either side. After you've craned your neck to peer down into the deep canyons, you can gaze up at the surrounding ring of equally ...

torr 30.01.2008 · Read full review
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Review of Machu Picchu, Peru

Machu Picchu - One of the New Seven Wonders

Advantages: One of the 'Must see before you die' sights
Disadvantages: expensive to get there from UK

Machu Picchu : If you were asked to write a list of places you MUST see in the world I believe this would be on most people's list. It was certainly on my list; it is a destination of a lifetime, a dream come true and one of the most fascinating archaeolo ...

catsholiday 22.11.2008 · Read full review
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Review of Machu Picchu, Peru

Lost City of the Incas

Advantages: UNESCO World Heritage Site, modern wonder of the world
Disadvantages: Difficult to get to

Machu Picchu is an ancient Inca site built in the 1450s but abandoned about a century later (possibly due to an epidemic). It remained a mystery to the outside world, known only to locals until American explorer Hiram Bingham re-discovered it only in 1911 ...

Essexgirl2006 23.10.2010 · Read full review
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Flight of the Condor

Advantages: See the Condors in the wild on their morning hunt
Disadvantages: Remote, tourist tat for sale, can get crowded.

Colca Canyon in Southern Peru is one of the deepest canyons on earth, in fact at one time was considered the deepest, but a nearby, less accessible canyon now takes that honour. The canyon reaches a depth of 4160m in places which is twice as deep as the G ...

Essexgirl2006 04.04.2011 · Read full review
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Review of Colca Canyon, Peru

R.I.P Juanita

Advantages: Lots to discover regarding Inca sacrificial ceremonies, the 'mummified' corpe of Juanita
Disadvantages: Nothing major, but the above is all that it concentrates on

...A few minutes walk from the Plaza de Armas of the Southern Peruvian colonial town of Arequipa is the Museo Universidad Catolica de Santa Maria, also know as Museo Santury. It is essentially an anthropological and archaeological museum, looking at the life ...

Essexgirl2006 03.05.2011 · Read full review
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Review of Museo Santury, Peru