A Dream Trip to Peru & Ecuador: Cusco
October 20, 2009 by Melanie
Filed under Cusco, Ecuador, Peru, South America, The Americas
Continued from
A Dream Trip to Peru & Ecuador: Machu Picchu
*A few Junes ago, my parents took their dream trip to Peru & Ecuador through a U.S. tour company, Adventure Life.
Cusco's Sacred Valley - Photo by Suzan Wynne
My parents found Cusco, Peru a fascinating place to visit, an ancient city with a mixture of pre-Colonial and Colonial buildings. One of the highest sites on Earth to have been settled by human beings, it’s located over 11,000 feet above sea level in the southeast Andes Mountains.
Here you can compare the seismically sound architecture of the Incas with far less sturdy Spanish churches, explore a sacred valley, and enjoy one of South America’s most adorable rodents…for dinner.
