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Salvatore Reginaldo’s Experience in Cusco, Peru – Part 3 final

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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.…
Experience in Cusco

Salvatore Reginaldo’s Experience in Cusco, Perú – Part 2

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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…
Cusco - Perú

Escape guide to language holidays, The Observer Traveler

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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…
Sucre - Bolivia

Virginia Military Institute goes to Bolivia testimonial by Ellen Burchen

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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…
Study Spanish in Peru. Activities and events.

Spanish courses in South America: a student’s experience

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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…
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Escape guide to language holidays – Transitions Abroad

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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…
El Panecillo, Quito, Ecuador

Vacations in Ecuador – Transitions Abroad

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“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…
Basilica of the National Vow, Ecuador

The scenic delights of Ecuador – Time Magazine

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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…
Plaza de Armas - Cusco

Head Honcho in Peru, testimonial by Carol LaMastra

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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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