Wednesday, July 19 _ [San Blas at night]. My favorite neighborhood in Cusco is San Blas (picturesque). It is lined with artists’ studios and artisans’ workshops, many of the best bars and restaurants, and hostels. It’s a great area to wander around (many streets are pedestrian-only). The neighborhood also has spectacular panoramic view of Cusco….
Thursday, July 13 _ Pachacutec, the most important and powerful Incas of the entire Empire who created Machu Picchu. He also reorganized the layout of Cusco, tearing down old buildings, creating new boulevards, and ordering a host of places and temples to be built. All of these were constructed in a new style of stonework…
Sunday, July 9 _ I arrived in Cusco at 6:00 a.m. on Sunday, July 9th. No time difference. Mrs. Consuelo Lazares Zamalloa (my host family) was there to pick me up (car problems on our way home). Regardless, we made it home. Consuelo showed me my room (on the third floor of the house). I…
Keep it in the family . The best way to learn a language is to eat, sleep, live and breathe it. Joanne O’Connor immerses herself in Peruvian life on a Spanish course and home stay in Cusco. The Observer You’ve never really tasted true misery unless you’ve had to scoop out your bath water with…
If you’re looking for a friendly, economical place to study Spanish, you’ll want to consider the Latin American Academy of Spanish (Academia Latinoamericana de Espanol) in Sucre, Bolivia’s capital city. Sucre is located in the Andes Mountains at an elevation of 9,151 ft. (2790m) and the climate is wonderful. June of 2001 was dry and…
Spanish courses in South America Brushing up your Spanish. Short, intensive, intermediate refresher courses in Spanish in South American locations are my topic. I should like to thank my school and the host organisations for their support. National trends can strike anywhere: at my school, pupil interest in Spanish has grown. One Spanish class in…
By Joanne O’Connor You’ve never really tasted true misery unless you’ve had to scoop out your bath water with the lid of a shampoo bottle and throw it down the sink because you can’t work out how to get the bath plug out and you are 13 and staying with a French family and are…
“In our last issue Clay Risen wrote that Quito may be “the best city in the world for Spanish language study” and emphasized that Ecuador “offers some of the best Ecotourism in the Western Hemisphere.” With a few days on our hands and other reasons to take us in this direction, my wife and I…
At 66, Margaret Amundson is no stranger to adventure, having raced dragon boats in China’s Hunan province and explored the Tikal ruins of Guatemala. When she cast about in 1997 for a school to improve her Spanish, the Michigan nurse looked first to Ecuador, explaining, “I was fascinated by the indigenous cultures, and I wanted…
Head Honcho in Peru, an American Woman Tells it Like it is. By Carol LaMastra As my two-year commitment running the Academia Latinoamericana/Cusco, Peru nears to an end, I’ve been asked by AmeriSpan to share a few of my experiences from my life in Cusco. Lately on my walk to work every morning I gaze down…
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