Mar 10, 2009

Promoting your business

As you know, if you want to be a successful traveler and enjoy some of the most amazing experiences ever when you decide to travel, then you definitely need to have a successful business so that you can have enough profit to make sure that your budget covers all your needs when traveling.

Personally, I would say that marketing is one of the most important aspects in the success of any company or business and that’s exactly why you should definitely consider the possibility of finding a complete direct marketing list of mails so that you can make sure that the word is spread when it comes the time to promote new products that you may be selling or some new discounts or offers that you may also be considering! I am sure that you recognize the importance of promoting your business therefore you should take some time and have a deep look at the website to which I have linked above.

Discovering Peru and the amazing views there!


When thinking about the most amazing destinations in the world that I would like to visit, Peru and the amazing historical cities there are definitely some of the first images that come to my mind! Personally, I would consider that Peru is one of the countries in the world that has more to show us! Do you agree?
Below is another msbc.com extract from an article which I would like you to read if you are considering the possibility of traveling to Peru...

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By Jonathan Levi


What follows is an adaptation of a story originally appearing in the March 2009 issue of Condé Nast Traveler.

Don Nazario Turpo died a stupid death. The driver of the bus in which he was traveling from Saylla to Cuzco didn't realize that the locals were making one of their low-tech protests — placing stones across the road without warning. Fourteen others besides Nazario died in the crash, and fifty were wounded.

I had met Nazario, a shaman, a couple of years before at Machu Picchu. After the other tourists had gone, he sat in the quiet of the ruins and told my daughter's fortune. "I'm coming back to Peru," Rebecca had whispered to me as we walked past llamas in the dusk.

"But not to Machu Picchu," Nazario had said. The fortress of the Incas had fallen to mass tourism. Every day, hundreds were arriving on buses, charging down the Inca Trail and through the Sun Gate. They came here on the five-hundred-dollar-a-head Orient-Express Hiram Bingham day-trip from Cuzco — a journey to what is fast becoming one of the world's most endangered gorgeous sites.

Nazario had mentioned another Incan citadel. No one went to this place. But it wasn't until Roger Valencia of the tour operator Auqui e-mailed me with news of Nazario's death that I wrote back to ask if he knew about this sister to Machu Picchu.

"Choquequirao," Roger answered. "Even more beautiful than Machu Picchu. When do you want to go?"

Choquequirao. Choqeqirau. Chokekiraw. I Googled as many variations as I could imagine and came up with little. I pulled my copy of “Lost City of the Incas” off the shelf and searched the index. “Lost City” was written by Hiram Bingham forty years after he had become the first Northerner, in 1911, to "discover" Machu Picchu. The book was full of Choquequirao.

Choquequirao, in fact, was Bingham's destination on his virgin trip to Peru in 1909, the city he believed to be the last holdout of the Incas during the 1530s, when Spanish conquistadors destroyed their empire. City of Gold was how the Peruvians translated the name to Bingham. The last holdout would hold the last treasure.

Once Bingham decided that Machu Picchu was the City of Gold, Choquequirao faded like a discarded high school girlfriend. But recent archaeologists have cast doubt on Bingham's theories. Choquequirao, the original City of Gold, may be getting ready for its red carpet walk.

There’s a reason Choquequirao is unknown: It is a five-day hike to reach it. I knew some people who had flown in by helicopter, but the winds in the mountains can be unpredictable. They had nearly crashed. Three times.

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