This Week Magazine: Inca Gold
Remember Polly Ann Meredith, ace girl pilot for G-BAT? Now she and her gang are in South America on Good Neighbor business… and in quick trouble too… In this exciting first story of a new series.
Articles Written By: Siduith Ferrer
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Blitzing the Incas
Much has been learned in the intervening years to correct many of the classic historical misnomers that appear in this 1942 book review of BROTHERS OF DOOM, a biography of the Pizarro brothers, by Hoffman Birney, an independent scholar and prolific pulp fiction writer.
Cable Car to Choquequirao on the horizon?
For travelers to Peru, 2011 was arguably the year of Machu Picchu. We saw an internationally acclaimed, giant celebration commemorating the 100th anniversary of Hiram Bingham’s “discovery” of the iconic Inca ruins. And we witnessed the historic, and long overdue, return of thousands of artifacts that Bingham took to America on loan.
Puno’s Virgen de la Candelaria Festival 2012 coming up in two months
With New Year’s fast approaching, it’s not too early to think about visiting Peru next year. If you come in early February, you’ll be able to visit Puno and experience it’s biggest festival: Virgen de la Candelaria.