Tag Archives: UNESCO

Plaza de Armas

Cuzco: Heart of the Inca Empire

Cuzco History Heart of the ancient Inca empire, Cuzco is located in the heart of the Andes at about 11,000 feet.  We’d recently been in Puno, and this was a…

Plaza de Armas, Arequipa

Visiting the White City: Arequipa, Peru

Arequipa, the White City Arequipa is called the white city, as many of its buildings are built from a kind of white volcanic stone, sillar (ignimbrite). There are many churches and…

Nazca Lines

The world famous Nazca Lines are said to have been created by the Nazca and maybe by the earlier Paracas people between 200 BC and 700 AD.  No one knows…

Victoria Falls

Day 2.  Rather than waste more time trying to get a status update on the lost luggage on a Sunday, we head to Victoria Falls.  A 20,000 kwacha taxi ride…