work fi tted together in a way where to this day no one can explain how you cannot even fi t a dime into the cracks between the stones. To the ancient Incas, they believed Cuzco to be the middle of the empire. T is is a spiritual place, where they celebrate the festival of the sun in June each year during the summer equinox. Lima is the capital of Peru and home to the oldest higher learning institution in the New World, the San Marcos University, founded in 1551.
THEN DOWN TO… BUENOS AIRES,
ARGENTINA The Paris of South America, Buenos Aires is lined with lavender trees and looks like something out of a European picture book. It has numerous museums, theatres, an internationally rated opera house and hundreds of bookstores, with some dubbing it “the city of books”. Argentina also boasts overwhelmingly by far the largest number of top-rated horse polo players, and horses, with the worldwide community of polo enthusiasts fl ocking here each year to improve their game. T ey have a shrine to Evita Peron, the enigmatic heroine of Andrew Lloyd Webber’s hit musical, and is every bit as charming as you imagine.
FINALLY… RIO DE JANEIRO & SAO
PAULO, BRAZIL! Brazil is famous for its samba dancing and its bossa-nova music, with its beautiful sunkissed beaches and its lively atmosphere. T ey are probably the best at partying in the world, with the Carnival in Rio de Janeiro world famous, where people save money all year just to buy the best dress to wear to this massive street party. Brazil of course is also world renowned for producing the best football players, and 2014 sees it hosting the FIFA World Cup. It is a melting pot of diff erent cultures with various people from diff erent places.