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Evening in Arequipa

Twilight brings crowds to the Plaza de Armas—and its neoclassical cathedral—in Arequipa, a center for Andean textiles.

Read more in "The Golden Yarn" in the May 2013 issue of National Geographic Traveler.

Photograph by Beth Wald

Peru Highlands

The mountains of Peru hold an Andean treasure—the gossamer wool of the vicuña.

April 9, 2013
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