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Habla Espanol? Intrepid Travel is offering a buy-one, get-one-half-price deal on Latin American packages. Choose from sailing and snorkeling in the Galapagos, sipping your way through the Malbec wine region in Chile and Argentina, or climbing to the ruins of Peru's Machu Picchu. Package prices range from $1,705 to $2,480. You can take a companion, or opt to use the half-price trip yourself as a separate booking. Travel must be arranged by Feb. 28. Quote code...
...March 2006, Yale’s art collection fell under scrutiny. The Peruvian government sued Yale for the rights to archaeological materials excavated from the Incan ruin Machu Picchu nearly a century ago by explorer and Yale professor Hiram Bingham. In September 2007, the two sides structured an agreement that stipulated that Yale would cede ownership of the artifacts and return many of them to Peru as early as 2009. Yale would, however, be legally permitted to retain certain pieces for 99 years as part of a research collection...
...give back 10 items from the collection she had formed with her late husband. And Italy is by no means the only nation making demands. Egypt wants the bust of Nefertiti from the Egyptian Museum in Berlin. Peru says Yale must return artifacts from the Inca ruins of Machu Picchu. And China has asked the U.S. to ban the import of almost anything of aesthetic interest--scrolls, paintings, furniture--made from the prehistoric era to the end of the Qing dynasty...
FINDERS KEEPERS? More than 90 years after a Yale explorer discovered the ancient Incan city of Machu Picchu, the university has agreed to return hundreds of excavated artifacts to the Peruvian government...
...Your first sight of Machu Picchu comes after you've passed the final checkpoint-the Sun Gate and its near-vertical flight of 50 stone steps. Spread before you, in the distance, is Machu Picchu's labyrinth of temples, terraces and plazas. This is where the descent into the ancient city begins-and, with luck, you will have arrived shortly before the last tourist bus departs (at 5:30 p.m.). That means you could have this astonishing, spiritual haunt virtually to yourself, in conditions of near silence. Now how's that for a sense of arrival...