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		<title>Founder&#8217;s Mansion</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 15 Aug 2011 15:29:10 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Stuart]]></dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The city of Arequipa was founded in 1540 by Garcí Manuel de Carbajal, who in the nearby fertile lands of Huasacache built his mansion. Huasacache, in the valley of the river Socabaya only a short distance from the city, passed through various hands over the years until it was bought by Jesuit missionaries.]]></description>
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		<title>Peru at the Movies: The Royal Hunt of the Sun</title>
		<link>http://enperublog.com/2010/08/26/peru-at-the-movies-the-royal-hunt-of-the-sun/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 26 Aug 2010 22:01:42 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Stuart]]></dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Ali Ryder presents the fifth in series of articles, Peru at the Movies. The Royal Hunt of the Sun, from 1969, portrays a somewhat stereotypical Spanish conquest of the Incas, the capture of Inca Atahualpa and his infamous ransom - but with a twist, Pizarro has a human side and befriends Atahualpa.]]></description>
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		<title>The origins of the traditional mazamorra morada</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 05 Aug 2010 01:00:14 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Stuart]]></dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[For many Peruvians, the taste of this thick purple goo is a treasured memory from childhood. Made from Peru's unique purple corn it is a dessert dish with an interesting history.]]></description>
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		<title>Without Machu Picchu you’ll enjoy the trip of a lifetime</title>
		<link>http://enperublog.com/2010/02/04/without-machu-picchu-you%e2%80%99ll-enjoy-the-trip-of-a-lifetime/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 04 Feb 2010 07:58:03 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[SPECIAL: PERU WITHOUT MACHU PICCHU - Machu Picchu is closed. It will stay that way through all of February at the very least. Do you have your flights booked and are wondering what to do next? Should you cancel or put off your trip to Cuzco?]]></description>
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		<title>A tale of colonial ships and Peruvian gold</title>
		<link>http://enperublog.com/2010/01/15/a-tale-of-colonial-ships-and-peruvian-gold/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 15 Jan 2010 20:45:05 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Stuart]]></dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[In May 2007, US company Odyssey Marine Exploration discovered $500,000,000 of Peruvian gold and silver coins from the sunken colonial ship Nuestra Señora del las Mercedes. Spain immediately claimed the bounty as property of the Spanish crown, as did Peru. The saga begins more than 200 years ago, and is one that is only now coming to an end.]]></description>
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		<title>Colonial jewel in Peru’s capital to be restored with UN help</title>
		<link>http://enperublog.com/2010/01/01/colonial-jewel-in-peru%e2%80%99s-capital-to-be-restored-with-un-help/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 01 Jan 2010 17:43:51 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Stuart]]></dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[As part of a United Nations-backed plan to restore historical architectural gems that have deteriorated into slums, residents of Rimac, one of the poorest neighbourhoods in Peru’s capital, Lima, will start registering property titles as of 2010 in an effort to restore the priceless landmarks.]]></description>
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		<title>Re-enactment in Ayacucho &#8211; The battle that liberated a continent</title>
		<link>http://enperublog.com/2009/12/13/recreation-in-ayacucho-the-battle-that-liberated-a-continent/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 13 Dec 2009 20:07:18 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Stuart]]></dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[On the 10th of December of this year, 185 years passed since Peru won a battle that decisively ended any hope for a Spanish presence in South America. At 3,500 above sea level, on the field of battle of the Pampa de Quinua, thousands gathered to take part in a huge recreation in honour of this occasion.]]></description>
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		<title>Charming San Blas, Cusco</title>
		<link>http://enperublog.com/2009/08/13/charming-san-blas-cusco/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 13 Aug 2009 16:03:42 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Stuart]]></dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[San Blas. A blend of ancient, colonial and modern, religious and decadent, peaceful and lively, traditional and new - the district is a bit of a mix to say the least. It's a hippy hang out, an artists retreat, a backpacker's home. It's a tourist puller and a night-life mecca. A religious site that is home to an important parish church, and also a place where locals live in the same homes that have stood here on the same streets, high above Cusco, for centuries. ]]></description>
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		<title>The revolt of Túpac Amaru II</title>
		<link>http://enperublog.com/2009/07/29/the-revolt-of-tupac-amaru-ii/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 29 Jul 2009 16:05:20 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Stuart]]></dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Born José Gabriel Condorcanqui in 1742, he was the great-grandson of the last Inca emperor Túpac Amaru. Like his great-grandfather before him, he was destined to resist the Spanish occupation, and, like his great-grandfather before him, was destined to meet the same fate.]]></description>
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		<title>The Andean Sistene Chapel in Andahuaylillas [Featured]</title>
		<link>http://enperublog.com/2009/07/27/the-andean-sistene-chapel-in-andahuaylillas/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 28 Jul 2009 03:04:36 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Stuart]]></dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Mark of the must-see travel blog travel-wonders.com visits what locals describe as “the Sistine Chapel of the Americas”. Though he considers that a bit of a cheeky exaggeration, this ordinary-looking church on the outside does not fail to impress once you step inside.]]></description>
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		<title>Hatunrumiyoc and the Twelve Angle Stone</title>
		<link>http://enperublog.com/2009/07/13/hatunrumiyoc-and-the-twelve-angle-stone/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 13 Jul 2009 18:22:38 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Stuart]]></dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The origins of the magnificent ruins of a building that we call Hatunrumiyoc are lost in time. Built with huge polygonal stones, cut and fitted with exceptional precision, it is one of the most impressive structures of ancient Cusco. Its imposing walls hide a number of surprises, from the famous 12-Angle Stone, to shapes of local animals built into the structure itself.]]></description>
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		<title>La Punta del Callao</title>
		<link>http://enperublog.com/2009/05/25/la-punta-del-callao/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 25 May 2009 17:55:11 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Stuart]]></dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Jutting out into the Pacific from the old port city of Callao is La Punta. Despite being attached to the noisy and bustling metropolis that is Lima and Callao, La Punta remains tranquil and pleasant, not unlike a small town in itself. Deeply connected to the sea and sea-faring, this is where private owners of yachts tie-up, where boating clubs reside and where the Peruvian Navy has its naval school. Home to Callao's middle-class, its streets are attractive and tidy, lined with the mansions of the countries Republican period.]]></description>
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		<title>Colonial Callao</title>
		<link>http://enperublog.com/2009/05/21/colonial-callao/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 21 May 2009 22:03:08 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Starting life as a rocky bay that was the nearest natural port to Pizarro's capital of Los Reyes, El Callao soon became the most important port in the Spanish colonies. It has witnessed colonial splendour, pirate attacks, disastrous tsunamis, battles, republican splendour and economic collapse. Each of these events have left a mark on the city and the chalacos that live there, many of these marks visible to this day.]]></description>
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		<title>Real Felipe Fortress</title>
		<link>http://enperublog.com/2009/04/24/real-felipe-fortress/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 24 Apr 2009 22:06:50 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Fortaleza del Real Felipe is the most prominent landmark in Callao. Built during colonial times, it was used to defend Spain's most important port in the Americas against pirates and corsairs who would otherwise raid Callao or nearby Lima as they did up and down the Pacific coast. Today it is a tourist attraction and museum run by Peru's army.]]></description>
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		<title>Bones of a conqueror</title>
		<link>http://enperublog.com/2009/01/30/bones-of-a-conqueror/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 30 Jan 2009 14:59:55 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Spanish settlers in Spain, upon their deaths, often wanted to be buried beneath the churches they had built on what they considered foreign and certainly un-Christian land. Doing so they thought was the only way of ensuring themselves a place in heaven. The richest or most important Spaniards in Lima were given prime spots - beneath the alter of the city's grand cathedral. Here, when work on the church's foundations was being carried out in 1977, a led box was found proclaiming; "Here is the head of Don Francisco Pizarro, Don Francisco Pizarro who discovered Peru and presented it to the crown of Castile."]]></description>
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		<title>Casa de Osambela-Oquendo</title>
		<link>http://enperublog.com/2009/01/16/casa-de-osambela-oquendo/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 16 Jan 2009 15:32:09 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[This mansion in the colonial heart of Lima is as beautiful as it is unique. In its 200 year history it has seen two wealthy owners come and go, leaving it with two names. I happened to be passing by when Lizardo Retes, who takes care of the site that is now a cultural centre, offered to show me around - and to the roof where you can see as far as Callao.]]></description>
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		<title>Inca Garcilaso de la Vega</title>
		<link>http://enperublog.com/2009/01/01/inca-garcilaso-de-la-vega/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 01 Jan 2009 05:55:54 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Born in Cuzco in 1539, Garcilaso de la Vega was the son of Spanish conqueror Sebastián Garcilaso de la Vega y Vargas and Inca princess Palla Chimpu Ocllo. He grew up in the earliest years of the Spanish empire, just when the conquered Incas were becoming used to Spanish rule. He lived among and was related to indigenous Peruvians who were alive in the days of Huascar's rule in Cuzco and his subsequent battle with half-brother Atahualpa, as well as those who were alive during the rule of Huayna Capac.

He grew up learning both Quechua and Spanish while living with his mother - until he turned 10. It was then, with the death of his father who had long since abandoned the family, he decided to go to study in Spain with the 4,000 pesos he had received as an inheritance.]]></description>
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		<title>Photographing Lima&#8217;s colonial centre</title>
		<link>http://enperublog.com/2008/12/14/photographing-limas-colonial-centre/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 14 Dec 2008 18:37:54 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Stuart]]></dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I recently spent a day walking around the old centre of Lima, once one of the most important and wealthiest cities in the Spanish Empire and the entire world. Its prestige has faded quite a bit, thanks to suffocating internal migration in the 50's and ex- turned- current President Alan García's reign of economic destruction and devastation in the 80's.

These were the results..]]></description>
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		<title>Colonial cannon discovered beneath Lima&#8217;s streets</title>
		<link>http://enperublog.com/2008/11/28/colonial-cannon-discovered-beneath-limas-streets/</link>
		<comments>http://enperublog.com/2008/11/28/colonial-cannon-discovered-beneath-limas-streets/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 28 Nov 2008 22:19:27 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[A cannon dating from Peru's Spanish colonial period has been found by workers constructing part of Lima's new Metropolitan transport system and underground central station. Unearthed at the intersection between Camaná and Emancipation, the cannon measures 2.79 metres long and is in good condition.

An archaeologist from the country's National Institute of Culture (INC), Carmen Gabe Benaki, explains that the cannon was likely to have been reused in the 1800s to protect an old mansion that once occupied the site but no longer stands. During the building's demolition it would have been left in place and become buried.]]></description>
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		<title>Ruins of Pachacamac</title>
		<link>http://enperublog.com/2008/10/29/ruins-of-pachacamac/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 30 Oct 2008 01:07:52 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The history of pre-Hispanic Lima is deeply entwined with Pachacamac. Worshipped across the central Andes since before the Inca conquest, the powerful creator god Pacha Kamaq is even revered today, almost 500 years after the Spanish conquest by Catholics in Lima. Today this powerful being has taken shape as the Cristo Morado and has been absorbed into Catholicism, and just as he is today, this ancient figure was also known as the Lord of the Earthquakes.]]></description>
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		<title>Convento de San Francisco</title>
		<link>http://enperublog.com/2008/10/18/convento-de-san-francisco/</link>
		<comments>http://enperublog.com/2008/10/18/convento-de-san-francisco/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 18 Oct 2008 12:43:53 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Every tourist who visits the colonial heart of Lima visits the San Francisco convent and descends into the depths of its catacombs, filled with the bones of the first generations of Spanish settlers. [...] The church is also home to one of Lima's most important libraries. Built in the 18th century, 25 thousand volumes of books are found here, many are now almost 500 years old. The furniture found here is original, the cedar-wood chairs and tables were once used by Franciscans when studying. [..]]]></description>
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		<title>Glorious Pre-Columbian Lima</title>
		<link>http://enperublog.com/2008/09/15/glorious-pre-columbian-lima/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 15 Sep 2008 16:36:50 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[When Francisco Pizarro arrived in the Rimac valley, founding the city of Los Reyes on the 18th of January 1535, he arrived in place quite different from what you might imagine. Here was an expansive green and fertile land, in the middle of the Peruvian desert coast, home tens of thousands living under the rule of the Incas. Where Lima is found today was once a land of pyramids and palaces, cities and farms, with complex irrigation canals spanning kilometres in length bringing water to every home.]]></description>
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		<title>Taulichusco, Lima&#8217;s Last Curaca</title>
		<link>http://enperublog.com/2008/09/14/taulichusco-limas-last-curaca/</link>
		<comments>http://enperublog.com/2008/09/14/taulichusco-limas-last-curaca/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 14 Sep 2008 16:38:22 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Inca Empire had all but collapsed, the Inca capital of Q'osco had been conquered and a puppet emperor placed on the thrown. By following the Inca road from Jauja to Pachacamac, conquistador Pizarro was back on the coast with many of his men looking for a place to found his city. The choice was obvious... the green paradise spanning out from the river Rimac, a vast urban and agricultural area home to tens of thousands of indigenous who had transformed the desert with complex irrigation systems and who had constructed countless towering truncated pyramids that could be seen for miles around.]]></description>
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		<title>Ruins of Maucallacta</title>
		<link>http://enperublog.com/2008/08/24/ruins-of-maucallacta/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 24 Aug 2008 18:25:54 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Six hours from Arequipa, on the route to the Coropuna volcano, are the ruins of an ancient ceremonial centre eventually assimilated by the Inca Empire. Today, Polish and Peruvian archaeologists, with the help of locals, are restoring what is truly a lost treasure.]]></description>
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		<title>Cruz del Viajero</title>
		<link>http://enperublog.com/2008/07/02/cruz-del-viajero/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 02 Jul 2008 21:50:26 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Placed by Franciscan monks in 1672 in the small town of Magdalena Vieja, now Pueblo Libre, the Traveller's Cross followed a tradition started by Conquistador Francisco Pizarro, a tradition that required the placement of a cross on the main routes to other parts of the country.]]></description>
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		<title>Quinoa &#8211; The Mother Grain</title>
		<link>http://enperublog.com/2008/05/27/quinoa-the-mother-grain/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 27 May 2008 21:30:50 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Quinoa, the grain of the Incas, has been cultivated in the Andean highlands of South America for over 7000 years, yet it is a relative newcomer on the international market. Pronounced "keen-wa", quinoa comes from the Quechua language spoken by many indigenous people in South America.

It was one of the most sacred foods of the ancient Incas, a plant so nourishing, delicious and vital, they called it chesiya mama; the ‘mother grain’.]]></description>
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		<title>Llamas, Alpacas, Vicuñas and Guanacos</title>
		<link>http://enperublog.com/2008/04/21/llamas-alpacas-vicunas-and-guanucos/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 21 Apr 2008 20:37:21 +0000</pubDate>
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		<category><![CDATA[guanacos]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Living on the altiplano – the Andean plateau – are the South American camelids. Llamas and Alpacas found themselves domesticated by humans and have lived this way for as much as 6000 years. Guanacos and Vicuñas on the other hand still exist in the wild and are heavily protected by law. They are all somehow able to thrive on the tough vegetation and harsh extremes in temperatures that we find at these altitudes.]]></description>
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		<title>The White City of Arequipa</title>
		<link>http://enperublog.com/2008/04/12/the-white-city-of-arequipa/</link>
		<comments>http://enperublog.com/2008/04/12/the-white-city-of-arequipa/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 12 Apr 2008 20:19:43 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Stuart]]></dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Arequipa Guide]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[arequipa]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[cathedral]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[As the Inca Mayta Capac passed with his soldiers through the valley in which modern Arequipa sits, some asked to stay behind. "Ari quepay", he said. Yes, stay.

The Spanish, when they arrived in these lands, often pronounced local words badly and named their new city the Villa Hermosa de la Asunción del Valle de Arequipa. Only Arequipa stuck.]]></description>
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		<title>Cuarto del Rescate</title>
		<link>http://enperublog.com/2008/01/28/cuarto-del-rescate/</link>
		<comments>http://enperublog.com/2008/01/28/cuarto-del-rescate/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 28 Jan 2008 16:43:17 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Stuart]]></dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Archaeology]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Cajamarca Guide]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[1500s]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[It was in Cajamarca that the Inca empire started down its path to swift destruction. The newly arrived group of Spanish lead by Francisco Pizarro, aiming to conquer the Inca empire, arrived in Cajamarca to be met by Emperor Atahualpa and his army. After tricking him into entering the city with only a light guard they captured him, ransomed him and killed him.]]></description>
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		<title>Baños del Inca</title>
		<link>http://enperublog.com/2008/01/13/banos-del-inca/</link>
		<comments>http://enperublog.com/2008/01/13/banos-del-inca/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 13 Jan 2008 16:10:07 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Stuart]]></dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Cajamarca Guide]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[atahualpa]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[They say that Inca Emperor Atahualpa was taking a well deserved rest on his way back to Cusco after a long journey from Quito and the recent defeat of his half brother in battle. While bathing he was disturbed by a messenger bringing word that strangers had arrived, these strangers were the Spanish.]]></description>
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		<title>Cajamarca</title>
		<link>http://enperublog.com/2008/01/10/cajamarca/</link>
		<comments>http://enperublog.com/2008/01/10/cajamarca/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 10 Jan 2008 15:58:20 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Stuart]]></dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Cajamarca Guide]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[cajamarca]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[carnival]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Set in the rolling green hills of the northern Peruvian Andes, Cajamarca is a land of history and tradition but also of carnival and music. The colonial city is a simpler, quieter and less commercialized version of Cusco, mostly free of tourism and all it brings, but with just as much to offer.]]></description>
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		<title>Zaña that was</title>
		<link>http://enperublog.com/2008/01/02/zana-that-was/</link>
		<comments>http://enperublog.com/2008/01/02/zana-that-was/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 02 Jan 2008 06:14:05 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Stuart]]></dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Archaeology]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Lambayeque & Chiclayo Guide]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Modern Peru]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[1500s]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[edward davis]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Competing with the Bosque de Pomac, in my opinion, as the most interesting place in Lambayeque are the ruins of Zaña. Refreshingly, these ruins are of a different kind to the ones you might be used to seeing while visiting Peru.]]></description>
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		<title>Lambayeque</title>
		<link>http://enperublog.com/2007/12/19/lambayeque/</link>
		<comments>http://enperublog.com/2007/12/19/lambayeque/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 19 Dec 2007 05:04:33 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Stuart]]></dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Lambayeque & Chiclayo Guide]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[1500s]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[bruning]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[The town of Lambayeque is the old Spanish colonial city founded in the 1500s that was the centre of power in the region of the same name. It stayed a relatively small town until 1720, when the rich families of the town of Zaña relocated here after Zaña was destroyed in a flash flood.]]></description>
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		<title>Chiclayo</title>
		<link>http://enperublog.com/2007/12/18/chiclayo/</link>
		<comments>http://enperublog.com/2007/12/18/chiclayo/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 18 Dec 2007 05:02:26 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Stuart]]></dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Lambayeque & Chiclayo Guide]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[1500s]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[epsel]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Chiclayo is a huge disorganised commercial city that sits on the Panamericana highway. It has a population of over 650,000 in a green (by Peruvian coastal standards) agricultural area with easy access to the mountains. The name of the city probably comes from the Mochic language; Chiclayoc meaning "hanging greenery".]]></description>
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		<title>Colonial Trujillo</title>
		<link>http://enperublog.com/2007/12/06/colonial-trujillo/</link>
		<comments>http://enperublog.com/2007/12/06/colonial-trujillo/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 07 Dec 2007 02:44:26 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Stuart]]></dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[La Libertad & Trujillo Guide]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Modern Peru]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[chan chan]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Trujillo is the capital of the region of La Libertad on the northern coast, and is the third largest city in Peru after Lima and Arequipa. This is where the Moche and Chimú civilizations developed between 200B.C. and 700A.D. Its year-round pleasant climate has earned it the title of “Capital of the Eternal Spring”. It has wonderful beaches, including the famous Huanchaco, which are sometimes venues for international surfing competitions. Fishermen still use reed canoes called “Caballitos de Tortora”, made the same way for thousands of years.]]></description>
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		<title>San Martín and Peruvian Independence</title>
		<link>http://enperublog.com/2007/11/24/san-martin-and-peruvian-independence/</link>
		<comments>http://enperublog.com/2007/11/24/san-martin-and-peruvian-independence/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 25 Nov 2007 01:26:01 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Stuart]]></dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[It was from this balcony in Huaura that in 1820 General Jose de San Martín first declared Peruvian independence from Spain.]]></description>
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		<title>Chile returns Peru&#8217;s historic books</title>
		<link>http://enperublog.com/2007/11/07/chile-returns-perus-historic-books/</link>
		<comments>http://enperublog.com/2007/11/07/chile-returns-perus-historic-books/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 07 Nov 2007 20:03:23 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Stuart]]></dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[News]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[lima]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[national library]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Realising that the new found mineral wealth on the pacific coast lay entirely in Bolivian and Peruvian hands, and sparked by Bolivia's plan to tax Chilean companies extracting it, Chile launched an invasion against the two nations. After their successful land grab in the south, Chilean troops continued up the coast, burning down towns and massacring thousands. When they reached Lima, all resistance was put down and troops began ransacking Peruvian national treasures - Lima having been the centre of the Spanish empire in the new world.]]></description>
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		<title>Origin of Peru</title>
		<link>http://enperublog.com/2007/08/02/origin-of-peru/</link>
		<comments>http://enperublog.com/2007/08/02/origin-of-peru/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 02 Aug 2007 06:32:38 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Stuart]]></dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[History]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Spanish had explored Central America and were engaging in expeditions reaching out south-wards along the pacific coast. One ship sailed down past the equator where eventually it reached the mouth of a river. There, the Spaniards on the ship noticed a native man fishing on the coast. Four of the strongest fastest Spanish disembarked some way away while the ship continued and stopped directly off the coast infront of the fisherman. Never having seen anything so strange and wonderful before, the fisherman was transfixed, staring at the ship not paying attention to his surroundings.]]></description>
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		<title>Earliest Gun Shot Victim in the New World</title>
		<link>http://enperublog.com/2007/06/22/earliest-gun-shot-victim-in-the-new-world/</link>
		<comments>http://enperublog.com/2007/06/22/earliest-gun-shot-victim-in-the-new-world/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 23 Jun 2007 04:03:23 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Stuart]]></dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Puruchuco, the site in Ate I visited not so long ago, has turned up yet more spectacular finds. In the Inca cemetery not far from the ruins in which 2500 mummies have been excavated, archaeologists uncovered what appeared to be a skeleton with a Spanish musket ball hole in the back of its skull. The traces of iron in the skull, from which Spanish muskets balls were made, seems to confirm this.

Dating of artefacts buried alongside the bodies allowed them to date the burials to an extraordinary time - about one year after the Spanish had founded the city of Lima.]]></description>
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		<title>María Parado de Bellido</title>
		<link>http://enperublog.com/2007/04/12/maria-parado-de-bellido/</link>
		<comments>http://enperublog.com/2007/04/12/maria-parado-de-bellido/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 13 Apr 2007 02:15:37 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Stuart]]></dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Ayacucho Guide]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[1700s]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[María Parado was an ordinary woman turned hero during the struggle for Peru's independence.

She was born in Huamanga, Ayacucho in the 1760s, married in the 1770s and had seven children. It was in the 1820s that she decided to help the nationalists fighting against the royalist Spanish army. Her husband and son were fighting with the nationalists while she remained in the Spanish stronghold of the city of Huamanga (Ayacucho).]]></description>
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		<title>Pampa de Quinua, Ayacucho</title>
		<link>http://enperublog.com/2007/04/04/pampa-de-quinua-ayacucho/</link>
		<comments>http://enperublog.com/2007/04/04/pampa-de-quinua-ayacucho/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 04 Apr 2007 23:57:05 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Stuart]]></dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Ayacucho Guide]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[A journey of just over 1 hour took us from the city to the site of the Battle of Ayacucho. As mentioned in the previous blog on the history of Ayacucho, this is where South American and Peruvian independence from Spain was won.]]></description>
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		<title>History of Ayacucho</title>
		<link>http://enperublog.com/2007/04/02/history-of-ayacucho/</link>
		<comments>http://enperublog.com/2007/04/02/history-of-ayacucho/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 02 Apr 2007 23:13:25 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Stuart]]></dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Ayacucho Guide]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Ayacucho is famous for its celebrations during the Easter season, a season I'll be here to witness. The town has a population of over 90,000, swelling during Semana Santa as people arrive to witness the religious festivities.

The city has a long and important history, dating back as much as 15,000 years where the first evidence of human habitation was found in the caves of Pikimachay. Thousands of years later, but still before the rise of the Incas, the area was home to the Huari civilisation which spanned about half of the Peruvian Andes...]]></description>
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		<title>Los Barrios Altos</title>
		<link>http://enperublog.com/2007/03/29/los-barrios-altos/</link>
		<comments>http://enperublog.com/2007/03/29/los-barrios-altos/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 29 Mar 2007 17:54:07 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Stuart]]></dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Lima City Guide]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Fine architecture, grand buildings, horse drawn carriages ferrying around the rich. This affluent area is adjacent to the city centre laid out by the conquistador Pizarro and dates back to not long after he founded it.]]></description>
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		<title>Ollantaytambo &#8211; Inca Ruins</title>
		<link>http://enperublog.com/2006/11/13/ollantaytambo-inca-ruins/</link>
		<comments>http://enperublog.com/2006/11/13/ollantaytambo-inca-ruins/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 13 Nov 2006 16:29:51 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Stuart]]></dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Spanish had caused the Inca empire to collapse. The pacific coast was theirs, they had founded the city of Lima. Marching on Cuzco they entered without a fight. The Inca emperor had been put to death, and the city of Cuzco was pillaged. The Spanish had installed a puppet emperor who was to do their bidding while they looted the empire for gold and forced the people into Christianity.]]></description>
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		<title>Ollantaytambo &#8211; An Inca Town</title>
		<link>http://enperublog.com/2006/11/13/ollantaytambo-an-inca-town/</link>
		<comments>http://enperublog.com/2006/11/13/ollantaytambo-an-inca-town/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 13 Nov 2006 16:15:09 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Stuart]]></dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I had wanted to visit the ruins in Ollantaytambo since I had seen a documentary several years ago that mentioned it was a place in which a battle between the Spanish and the Incas took place - the only battle in which the Incas won and slaughtered the Spanish.

The current town that sits next to the ruins is in fact the same complex. Ollantaytambo still retains the street pattern of the Inca town it was built upon. The current buildings, in the majority, are the actual buildings that stood in the Inca times - only colonialised-up a little.]]></description>
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		<title>Machu Picchu</title>
		<link>http://enperublog.com/2006/11/10/machu-picchu/</link>
		<comments>http://enperublog.com/2006/11/10/machu-picchu/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 10 Nov 2006 05:17:51 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Stuart]]></dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Archaeology]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Machu Picchu means "old peak" in the Inca language of Quechua, as Huayna Picchu the thin point mountain at the other side of the ruins means "young peak". These are not Inca names, we don't know what they called the mountain, nor their city, rather the name was given by a geographer and cartographer working to document the region...]]></description>
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		<title>Sacsayhuamán</title>
		<link>http://enperublog.com/2006/11/05/sacsayhuaman/</link>
		<comments>http://enperublog.com/2006/11/05/sacsayhuaman/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 06 Nov 2006 04:28:39 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Stuart]]></dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Archaeology]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Cusco Guide]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Modern Peru]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[cusco]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Pachacútec, expander of the empire, ordered the site's construction in the mid-1400's. The complex took almost 100 years to complete with thousands of men. Many of the blocks were taken from as far as 32km away. Some blocks are the size of large buses and weigh hundreds of tons. No-one knows how they managed to move them, not even how they managed to cut the bricks with laser-precision. All that survives of the place is what the Spanish weren't able to destroy - what they didn't have the technology to destroy. What you see in my photos is a mere 20% of what once stood here.]]></description>
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		<title>Regrets of a Conqueror</title>
		<link>http://enperublog.com/2006/11/02/regrets-of-a-conqueror/</link>
		<comments>http://enperublog.com/2006/11/02/regrets-of-a-conqueror/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 03 Nov 2006 03:58:05 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Stuart]]></dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[In Cuzco in 1589, Don Mancio Serra de Leguisamo—the last survivor of the original conquerors of Peru—wrote in the preamble of his will, the following:
"We found these kingdoms in such good order, and the said Incas governed them in such wise [manner] that throughout them there was not a thief, nor a vicious man, nor an adulteress, nor was a bad woman admitted among them, nor were there immoral people. The men had honest and useful occupations. The lands, forests, mines, pastures, houses and all kinds of products were regulated and distributed in such sort that each...]]></description>
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		<title>Cabanas and Collaguas</title>
		<link>http://enperublog.com/2006/10/24/cabanas-and-collaguas/</link>
		<comments>http://enperublog.com/2006/10/24/cabanas-and-collaguas/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 25 Oct 2006 02:18:15 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Stuart]]></dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Arequipa Guide]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Traditions]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[arequipa]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[cabanas]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[collaguas]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Cabanas and Collaguas are, or rather were, two distinct ethnic groups in the Colca area. Before Spanish conquest and intervention it was not permitted for the two groups to intermarry. The two groups distinguished themselves by creating different head deformations, one group had tall and thin skulls and one had fat and long skulls. They did this by tying two pieces of wood to the babies head until the affects were irreversible.]]></description>
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		<title>Monasterio de Santa Catalina</title>
		<link>http://enperublog.com/2006/10/12/monasterio-de-santa-catalina/</link>
		<comments>http://enperublog.com/2006/10/12/monasterio-de-santa-catalina/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 13 Oct 2006 01:48:13 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Stuart]]></dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Arequipa Guide]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[The main attraction of Arequipa is the beautifully preserved Monastery of Santa Catalina.

This is a walled-off convent where 20 nuns still live, separate from the parts open to the public. It was built in the 15th century, founded by a rich window called Maria del Guzman...]]></description>
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		<title>Chile: La Tirana</title>
		<link>http://enperublog.com/2006/09/19/chile-la-tirana/</link>
		<comments>http://enperublog.com/2006/09/19/chile-la-tirana/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 19 Sep 2006 06:42:16 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Stuart]]></dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Beyond Peru]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[chile]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[La Tirana is a town of dusty streets and adobe houses with a church and a piece of history as its only attractions.

La Tirana is named after an Inca princess Huillac Ñusca. In 1535 Diego de Almagro, a Spanish conquistador, marched south from Cusco to conquer Chile. Only 500 Spaniards where willing to go with him to conquer these lands that they thought would be poor. So Diego de Almagro took with him ten thousand conquered Incas including the Inca princess and an Inca Prince. The party included, unknown to Almagro, a number of highly trained Wilkas (Inca Warriors) from the Inca Royal Army.]]></description>
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		<title>Santiago de Surco</title>
		<link>http://enperublog.com/2006/07/18/santiago-de-surco/</link>
		<comments>http://enperublog.com/2006/07/18/santiago-de-surco/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 18 Jul 2006 18:20:29 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Stuart]]></dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Lima City Guide]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Peruvian Food]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Surco was originally a vacation spot during Spanish colonial times, Spaniards in Lima would visit for some peace and quiet. That was before the metropolis of Lima swallowed this once small town and it became one of the seven city districts created after independence.

But there are still signs of what once was.]]></description>
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		<title>Parque de la Amistad, Surco</title>
		<link>http://enperublog.com/2006/07/16/parque-de-la-amistad-surco/</link>
		<comments>http://enperublog.com/2006/07/16/parque-de-la-amistad-surco/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 16 Jul 2006 18:10:56 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Stuart]]></dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Lima City Guide]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Parque de la Amistad, or Park of Peace/Friendship is located in cuadra 21 of Av. Caminos del Inca, in Santiago de Surco. Although it is not quite on the tourist trail, it is a significant park in the municipality of Surco, and some history is tied up in the park.]]></description>
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		<title>Lima Centro – Colonial Lima</title>
		<link>http://enperublog.com/2006/06/13/lima-centro-%e2%80%93-colonial-lima/</link>
		<comments>http://enperublog.com/2006/06/13/lima-centro-%e2%80%93-colonial-lima/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 14 Jun 2006 01:57:50 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Stuart]]></dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[cathedral]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[We visited the Plaza of San Martin (South American liberator from the Spanish) in the centre of which you can see his statue. To José de San Martin’s back-right is a street called Jirón de la Unión, which is pedestrianised. This street is bustling with people and is full of shops and shoppers. Following this street you eventually arrive in the Plaza de Armas...]]></description>
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