{"id":52,"date":"2011-04-22T00:37:00","date_gmt":"2011-04-22T00:37:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/trek.macanics.com\/cusco"},"modified":"2011-04-22T00:37:00","modified_gmt":"2011-04-22T00:37:00","slug":"cusco","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/paddington.macanics.com\/?p=52","title":{"rendered":"Cusco"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Finally arrived in the Inca capital, Cusco. One long bus journey through mist-cloaked Andean peaks for me, an astonishingly difficult but ultimately succesful taxi-bus-taxi (incompetant)-taxi (fast)-plane-collectivo journey for Katy. That&#8217;s the price for not liking coach trips I guess!<\/p>\n<p>Cusco is at once strange and familiar. The colonial architecture, the tumbledown mix of cement-block and abode brick construction, everything either half finished or half demolished (hard to tell which sometimes), filled with honking squealing vans and mototaxis, crowded pavements &#8211; these are now familiar parts of the Bolivian and Peruvian urban landscape. The setting is different: surrounded by hills and mountains green rather than sere browns; distances shrouded in cloud; the air crisp. Tomorrow should be a good exploring day, I feel. Time to uncover the ancient&nbsp;heart of Peru I&#8217;ve been journying towards these last 4 weeks.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Finally arrived in the Inca capital, Cusco. One long bus journey through mist-cloaked Andean peaks for me, an astonishingly difficult but ultimately succesful taxi-bus-taxi (incompetant)-taxi (fast)-plane-collectivo journey for Katy. That&#8217;s the pr&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-52","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/paddington.macanics.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/paddington.macanics.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/paddington.macanics.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/paddington.macanics.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/paddington.macanics.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=52"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/paddington.macanics.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/paddington.macanics.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=52"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/paddington.macanics.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=52"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/paddington.macanics.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=52"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}