Mar/110
Incriminating white line or warm mug of Inca altitude brew?
Luckily, most people on a Cusco vacation don’t have to worry about possible confusion between the two.
The best and most common advice for dealing with altitude sickness if you’re going to visit the two-mile high city of Cusco.
- Avoid heavy meals,
- Don’t drink alcohol,
- And definitely knock back copious amounts of the herbal infusion, mate de coca.
Follow this prescription for at least the first day, and you’ll probably be just fine.
Feb/110
Peru’s Indigenist Movement and the great works it has inspired
As much as in any country in South America, people on vacation to Cusco will be struck by the rich tapestry of culture woven from Andean, Spanish, African, Chinese and Japanese influences.
But until just a few decades ago, it would have been obvious during the Cusco tours the uneasy coexistence between separate and very unequal cultures — a small, dominant European-descended elite and the indigenous Andean majority.
The tensions arising from that relationship and recurrent attempts to achieve a truly national culture, spawned indigenismo — a social, artistic and political movement that was the basis for many of Peru’s greatest artistic and intellectual achievements over the past century.
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