Posts in Category: South America
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Raqchi and Tambomachay
In the last six posts from the February 2026 Kingdoms of the Andes tour by Adventures Abroad our group has been exploring the heartland of the Inca Empire including Cusco, the Sacred Valley, Machu Picchu and enjoying a Carnival celebration in Pisac. Looking back it really has been an exceptional few days that I will […]
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Pisac – Carnival Time in the Andes
In the last post on the February 2026 Kingdoms of the Andes tour by Adventures Abroad I described one of the all time great days of travel on a visit to Machu Picchu. It certainly will be hard to top that, but we are going to give it a try. In this post we’ll visit […]
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Machu Picchu – Here at Last
In the last post on this Adventures Abroad Kingdoms of the Andes tour we arrived by train at the underrated town of Aguas Calientes, the gateway to Machu Picchu. In this post, after a lifetime of expectation, I will finally get to visit this most famous of all Incan archaeological sites and one of the […]
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Aguas Calientes – Gateway to Machu Picchu
In the last post from my February 2026 Kingdoms of the Andes tour with Adventures Abroad we left the Incan capital city of Cusco and entered the Sacred Valley making our way to the amazing town of Ollantaytambo. The excitement was growing among our group as we came nearer and nearer to what for most […]
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Ollantaytambo & the Sacred Valley
In the last two posts from the February 2026 Kingdoms of the Andes tour by Adventures Abroad we explored the Incan capital of Cusco and then the surrounding area including the amazing site of Saqsaywaman. In this post we’ll begin our journey to the Sacred Valley of the Incas which will eventually lead us to […]
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Around Cusco – Alpacas and Inca Ruins
In the last post on this Adventures Abroad Kingdoms of the Andes tour we visited the fabled Incan capital city of Cusco where we toured the Plaza Mayor and ran into a carnival parade. It was a real unexpected treat, but there’s a lot more to see in the area so please join Diego, Carlos […]
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Cusco – Capital of the Inca Empire
This is my sixth post from the February 2026 Kingdoms of the Andes tour with Adventures Abroad. For the first week of the tour we have been exploring the capital city of Lima and the coastal area below it including flying over the fabled Nazca Lines. In this post we’ll leave the lowlands behind and […]
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Lima – Peru’s City of Kings
This is my sixth post from a February 2026 Kingdoms of the Andes tour to Peru and Bolivia with Adventures Abroad. I had opted for this particular tour because it included the Nazca lines and the Ballestas Islands, two places not found on most Peruvian itineraries. The city of Ica with its famous winery, great […]
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Ica Peru – Wine, Mummies & Mystery
This is my fifth post from the February 2026 trip to Peru and Bolivia with Adventures Abroad. In the first post I gave an overview of the entire tour and in the next three extolled the virtues of Lima’s Miraflores district, overflew the mysterious Nazca lines and then added life listers to my birding atlas […]