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Tucan Travel has joined forces with The Great Outdoors television show to promote adventure travel in Peru. Hosted by Tom Williams, the shows are due to screen on 28 June, 5 and 12 July at 6.30pm on Channel 7 and will feature the Inca capital of

Surfing buddies catch fabled wave 20 years after fatal crash - Farm Weekly
TWENTY years ago, the Peruvian break Chicama was outed in surf magazines as the longest wave in the world and many young men dreamt of four-minute rides as the swell unloaded along the 1.5 kilometre sweep of the sand-bottom bay. Five of them from

THE PARIS ACCORD - Manila Bulleting Online
Paris Anna Piaggi, the eccentrically painted and plumed editor at Italian Vogue, opened her red parasol at the Chanel haute couture show and sat under it. This was, technically, inviting bad luck, for she was indoors, under the glass dome of the

The Other Peru - New York Times
While Machu Picchu is at the top of the list for most visitors to Peru, the country is more than a one-hit wonder. Lush rain forests and fossil-rich coastal deserts endow the country with unparalleled beauty. Guide Roberto Penny Cabrera, left

World Heritage Committee requests close surveillance of four sites - Xinhua News Agency
QUEBEC CITY, CANADA, July 10 (Xinhua) — The World Heritage Committee has asked that “reinforced monitoring” be applied to four properties on UNESCO’s World Heritage List. The four sites are: Bordeaux, Port of the Moon (France), Historic Sanctuary of

Friends of the Larkspur Library will host author and archaeologist Patrick Hunt at 7 p.m. July 10 to discuss his new book, “Ten Discoveries that Rewrote History.” Hunt will tell the stories behind the Rosetta Stone, Machu Picchu, Pompeii, Troy and
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Peru officials find pre-Hispanic textiles on sale in tourist market - Sioux City Journal
LIMA, Peru (AP) — Shoppers at a tourist market in Peru’s capital could have netted greater bargains than they thought — rare, pre-Hispanic textiles costing little more than a Machu Picchu magnet. Police and archaeologists raiding the block-long
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On June 17, Interpol held a conference in Lyon, France, to increase co-operation among its 186 member nations in the fight to retrieve stolen cultural property. Since the fall of the Iron Curtain, the rise of the Internet and the globalization of the
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