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Meet the Unlucky Traveler who got Lucky in Peru

November 24, 2016

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Am I good luck or bad luck? This has been a debate with some of my close friends who have expressed that they would decline to travel on a plane with me because I always have such bad luck! Well, it is true that I have a record number of misadventures, with trains, for instance... My passport was stolen during a train journey from Geneva, Switze[...]

Machu Picchu, Peru - Visiting One of the New Seven World Wonders

February 25, 2011

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Macchu Picchu, Must do's, Places

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Once upon a time there were some Incas whose stronghold was a great, hidden village in the mountains of Peru. Peacefully they lived their life up in the mountains, while enemies tried to conquer the area around without ever finding the hidden village. This is not just a fairy tale; the hidden village, Machu Picchu, still exists and was declared one of the N[...]