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The road less traveled to Machu Picchu
Special to the Los Angeles TimesOur first view of Machu Picchu was from across a cloud-covered valley. My daughter Betsy and I had hiked three hours in air so thick that you could cut it with a machete. We were exploring the partially restored Inca ruins of Llactapata with our...Tags: Landforms, Hospitals and Clinics, Mountains, Water, Hotels and Accommodations
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Around the world in 23 days
Phileas Fogg went around the world in 80 days. I did it in 23. And I bet I visited more amazing sites than he — India's Taj Mahal, Easter Island, Tibet, Cambodia's Angkor Wat, the African plains, to name a few — all without having to endure...Tags: Mechanicsville (Bucks, Pennsylvania), Mechanicsville (Montour, Pennsylvania), Mechanicsville (Lehigh, Pennsylvania), Cambodia, Hotels and Accommodations
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Planning your trip to Machu Picchu along the Salkantay Trail
Trip logistics: To re-create the trip described, contact any one of a number of Mountain Lodge of Peru's travel partners, including Mountain Travel Sobek (www.mtsobek.com); REI (www.rei.com/adventures) or Backroads (www.backroads.com) or contact MLP...Tags: Hotel and Accommodation Industry, Travel, Human Interest, Hotels and Accommodations, Trips and Vacations
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Yale agrees to return Machu Picchu artifacts to Peru, ending dispute
La PlazaYale University has agreed to return thousands of pre-Hispanic artifacts to Peru, tentatively ending a dispute that pitted the Ivy League school against a growing demand in the Andean nation to reclaim its "cultural patrimony." The Machu Picchu objects --... -
100 facts for 100 years of Machu Picchu: Fact 8
Los Angeles Times Travel editorIn July, Machu Picchu, Peru's biggest tourist attraction, will mark its 100th anniversary of rediscovery. Hiram Bingham III, a Yale professor, came upon the vine-covered ruins on July 24, 1911. Here, then, as we lead up to the century mark, are 100-plus...Tags: South America, Native Americans, Tour Operations Industry, Peru, Minority Groups
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Make art loans, not war
The much-celebrated and hotly contested Euphronios calyx-krater is the Metropolitan Museum's no more. Last week, the Greek two-handled bowl got a one-way ticket to Italy, the country from which it is thought to have been looted. At Rome's presidential...Tags: Yale University, Metropolitan Museum of Art, Arts and Culture, Archaeology, Crimes
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Clues from the mists of time
Los Angeles Times Staff WriterKuelap, Peru The broken skeletons were scattered like random pottery shards, rediscovered where they had fallen centuries ago. Were these ancient people cut down in some long-forgotten battle? Did European-introduced diseases cause their demise? Were...Tags: Computer Networking and Internet, Mystery (genre), Science and Technology, Disasters and Accidents, Hotels and Accommodations
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Historic site at risk; too many tourists
Los Angeles Times StaffCalls are mounting for limiting visitors to the fragile Inca citadel of Machu Picchu, an increasingly popular tourist destination. Some have suggested closing South America's preeminent archeological monument one or two days a week as the number of...Tags: Yale University, Science and Technology, Education, Travel, Monuments and Heritage Sites
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'The Lost City of Z' by David Grann
The Lost City of Z
A Tale of Deadly Obsession
in the Amazon
David Grann
Doubleday: 352 pp., $27.50
For each summit reached or Machu Picchu-like discovery, the history of exploration marks more deaths and failures than can be counted, armies of men...Tags: Computer Networking and Internet, Brazil, Theodore Roosevelt, Forestry and Timber, Defense
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Railroads, tours and treks
Special to The TimesTHOUGH fiercely buffeted by political crosswinds in 2005, Amtrak apparently has survived the political pressure that culminated with the firing of the company's president. As of now, the existing network will continue for 2006. On the plus side, the...Tags: Vancouver (Canada), Transportation, Japan, Fairbanks, Spain
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Science Is Eating His Dust
Gene Savoy plunged into the Peruvian jungle half a century ago in search of the fabled El Dorado, a lost Incan city so wealthy that its king reputedly walked coated in gold dust. For months at a time, Savoy tromped through mountain terrain that local...Tags: Landforms, Portland (Multnomah, Oregon), Education, Science and Technology, Archaeology
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