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Aruba is One Happy Island – it says so on their license plates.
The first happy inhabitants were the Caquetio Indians who came from nearby Venezuela to escape persecution. Then came the Spanish who enslaved the Indians, ending their happiness.
In 1637 the Dutch arrived and made everyone speak Dutch. Then came the most blood-thirsty intruders of all: the Tourists. Their invasion has been relentless and unforgiving.
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Peru… Land of… What? What were you thinking? What comes to mind? Machu Picchu? Indian villagers in bright, colorful sarapes? Maybe shamans burning incense.
That was about all I pictured before I went to Peru to produce a travel documentary. I soon discovered one of the most varied places on the planet:
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Did you ever get a really big birthday gift? I mean an ultra-ginormous gift that was so over the top you could not believe how much your friends cared for you?
I’m talking a gift so special it sits on top of a mountain. In fact, it is the top of that mountain. Your friends actually had to tunnel through that mountain to build the thing. Everybody had to chip in ‘cause it cost 30 million and… 12 guys even died building it for you.
