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Travels in Peru
July-August 2009

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Lima
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Cusco & Sacred Valley
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Machu Picchu
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Puno & Lake Titicaca
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Arequipa
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Pisco
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Callao (Lima)
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Epilogue
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PROLOGUE
We originally intended to go to
Turkey, since we hadn’t yet been to that part of the world. Airfare
turned out to be quite expensive, so I looked to South America,
another continent not yet visited. I liked the word Peru, and
airfare to Peru was a lot cheaper than Turkey. I hadn’t watched any
documentaries or movies about the country, so it was a blank slate.
I couldn’t think of any news about the country, which I inferred to
mean it was politically stable and not trying to nuke the US or any
allies. I didn’t even really think of Machu Picchu until my friend
excitedly blurted “Machu Picchu!” into the phone when I mentioned
Peru, as if it was a word-association drinking game. I would have
lost.
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We had an overnight
flight from Raleigh, through Miami, and were due to arrive in the
capital of Peru around 5am Sunday morning. On the flight from
Raleigh to Miami, we met a French guy who is currently working in
Raleigh. He was on his way to Bolivia to climb a mountain with his
friend from France. On the flight from Miami to Lima, we were
seated among a group of college students from Boston who were going
to Peru to study the shamanism there, as part of an alternative
psychology course. I never learned the name of the girl sitting
next to me, but she said she had two more years of college and had
no idea what she wanted to do afterwards. Maybe something with
horse therapy. We chatted quite a bit, and I recommended she join
the Peace Corps if she liked this experience. |

Sera and Zac in the
Raleigh-Durham Airport |
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