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My readers say it best: "love it," "addictive,""useful," "great," & "invaluable." - View quotes & testimonials]]> http://www.hispanictips.com/2008/12/08/debate-rages-in-peru-was-a-lost-city-ever-lost-machu-picchu/feed/ 0 http://www.hispanictips.com/2008/06/18/boom-skips-toiling-porters-on-inca-trail-to-machu-picchu/ http://www.hispanictips.com/2008/06/18/boom-skips-toiling-porters-on-inca-trail-to-machu-picchu/#comments Wed, 18 Jun 2008 14:33:09 +0000 Tomas http://www.hispanictips.com/2008/06/18/boom-skips-toiling-porters-on-inca-trail-to-machu-picchu/ "But instead of carrying news or fresh seafood delicacies from the coast, they haul propane tanks, camping equipment and four days of food for wealthy tourists from worlds away — all for as little as $8 a day.

Peruvian law permits only 500 people to set out each day on the Inca Trail to Peru's top tourist destination, Machu Picchu — and nearly 300 of them are porters. Many complain that they are underpaid for their backbreaking labor." HispanicTips.com - A Blogante News Service For, From & About Hispanics & Latinos]]> http://www.hispanictips.com/2008/06/18/boom-skips-toiling-porters-on-inca-trail-to-machu-picchu/feed/ 0 http://www.hispanictips.com/2008/06/03/machu-picchu-ransacked-40-years-before-its-discovery-new-research-claims/ http://www.hispanictips.com/2008/06/03/machu-picchu-ransacked-40-years-before-its-discovery-new-research-claims/#comments Tue, 03 Jun 2008 15:58:59 +0000 Tomas http://www.hispanictips.com/2008/06/03/machu-picchu-ransacked-40-years-before-its-discovery-new-research-claims/ "One of the most popular tourist destinations in the world, the citadel, hidden by clouds 8,000 feet above sea level, has become a pilgrimage for hundreds of thousands of travellers every year.

Historians have always thought that it lay undiscovered for centuries after the fall of the Incan Empire in the 1530s, until being brought to the attention of the modern world by an American explorer, Hiram Bingham, in 1911.

But a research team including a British scientist believe that "the lost city of the Incas" could have been "discovered" more than four decades previously, by a German adventurer who looted the site with the help of the Peruvian government." HispanicTips.com - A Blogante News Service For, From & About Hispanics & Latinos]]> http://www.hispanictips.com/2008/06/03/machu-picchu-ransacked-40-years-before-its-discovery-new-research-claims/feed/ 0