In Peru's Cuzco, pandemic devastates tourism and economy
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Tourist guide Efrain Valles, wearing a protective face mask, stands at his recently opened ice cream shop in Cuzco, Peru, Wednesday, Oct. 28, 2020. Valles, once one of the most sought-after tour guides in Cuzco high in Peru's Andes, is one of the 1.3 million people nationwide in a tourism industry devastated by the novel coronavirus and the measures imposed to fight its spread, including international travel restrictions. (AP Photo/Martin Mejia)Police walk past the famous wall known as the stone with 12 angles, part of the current Religious Art Museum on Hatun Rumiyoc Street in Cusco Peru, Thursday, Oct. 29, 2020. All major sites around Cusco are currently open for free, in hopes of sparking any tourism after the COVID-19 pandemic brought it to a standstill. (AP Photo/Martin Mejia)The Machu Picchu archeological site is devoid of tourists while its closed amid the COVID-19 pandemic, in the department of Cusco, Peru, Tuesday, Oct. 27, 2020. Currently open to maintenance workers only, the world-renown Incan citadel of Machu Picchu will reopen to the public on Nov. 1. (AP Photo/Martin Mejia)Restaurants are closed amid the COVID-19 pandemic in Aguas Calientes, at the base of Macchu Pichu, Peru, Tuesday, Oct. 27, 2020. The world-renown Incan citadel of Machu Picchu will reopen to the public on Nov. 1. (AP Photo/Martin Mejia)The Machu Picchu archeological site is devoid of tourists while it's closed amid the COVID-19 pandemic, in the department of Cusco, Peru, Tuesday, Oct. 27, 2020. Currently open to maintenance workers only, the world-renown Incan citadel of Machu Picchu will reopen to the public on Nov. 1. (AP Photo/Martin Mejia)A maintenance worker carries a bag of stones at the Machu Picchu archeological site that's closed to the public amid the COVID-19 pandemic in the department of Cusco, Peru, Tuesday, Oct. 27, 2020. The world-renown Incan citadel of Machu Picchu will reopen to the public on Nov. 1. (AP Photo/Martin Mejia)The Machu Picchu archeological site is devoid of tourists while it's closed amid the COVID-19 pandemic, in the department of Cusco, Peru, Tuesday, Oct. 27, 2020. Currently open to maintenance workers only, the world-renown Incan citadel of Machu Picchu will reopen to the public on Nov. 1. (AP Photo/Martin Mejia)The Machu Picchu archeological site is devoid of tourists while it's closed amid the COVID-19 pandemic, in the department of Cusco, Peru, Tuesday, Oct. 27, 2020. Currently open to maintenance workers only, the world-renown Incan citadel of Machu Picchu will reopen to the public on Nov. 1. (AP Photo/Martin Mejia)Lamas walk inside the empty Machu Picchu archeological site, devoid of tourists while it's closed amid the COVID-19 pandemic, in the department of Cusco, Peru, Tuesday, Oct. 27, 2020. Currently open to maintenance workers only, the world-renown Incan citadel of Machu Picchu will reopen to the public on Nov. 1. (AP Photo/Martin Mejia)A travel agency is closed amid the COVID-19 pandemic in Cuzco, Peru, Monday, Oct. 26, 2020. Hotels, travel agencies, jewelry stores, restaurants, cafes, chocolate shops and dollar exchange houses are all closed, only a few souvenir shops remain open but they go for days without customers. (AP Photo/Martin Mejia)Women selling traditional clothing from the Andes wait for buyers outside of closed market amid the COVID-19 pandemic in Chincheros, Peru, Monday, Oct. 26, 2020. Cuzco, the historic capital of the Inca empire near Machu Picchu lives almost entirely from international tourism and is suffering the worst crisis in its recent history. (AP Photo/Martin Mejia)The Machu Picchu archeological site is devoid of tourists while it's closed amid the COVID-19 pandemic, in the department of Cusco, Peru, Tuesday, Oct. 27, 2020. Currently open to maintenance workers only, the world-renown Incan citadel of Machu Picchu will reopen to the public on Nov. 1. (AP Photo/Martin Mejia)A man dressed as Inca ruler Manco Capac, who according to some historians was the first governor and founder of the Inca civilization in Cusco waits for tourists on an empty street in modern-day Cusco, Peru, Monday, Oct. 26, 2020. All major sites around the Cusco are currently open for free, in hopes of sparking any tourism after the COVID-19 pandemic brought it to a standstill, leaving reenactors like this man interpreting Manco Capac facing severe unemployment. (AP Photo/Martin Mejia)A lama lays on the grass at the Machu Picchu archeological site, where only maintenance workers gather while it's closed to the public amid the COVID-19 pandemic, in the department of Cusco, Peru, Tuesday, Oct. 27, 2020. The world-renown Incan citadel of Machu Picchu will reopen on Nov. 1. (AP Photo/Martin Mejia)Herminia Mena sells Sndean cloth in an empty Plaza de Armas amid the COVID-19 pandemic in downtown Cusco, Peru, Friday, Oct. 30, 2020. (AP Photo/Martin Mejia)The Machu Picchu archeological site is devoid of tourists while it's closed amid the COVID-19 pandemic, in the department of Cusco, Peru, Tuesday, Oct. 27, 2020. Currently open to maintenance workers only, the world-renown Incan citadel of Machu Picchu will reopen to the public on Nov. 1. (AP Photo/Martin Mejia)Rooms are empty at a closed hotel amid the COVID-19 pandemic in Aguas Calientes, near Machu Picchu, in the Cusco department of Peru, Tuesday, Oct. 27, 2020. The world-renown Incan citadel of Machu Picchu will reopen to the public on Nov. 1. (AP Photo/Martin Mejia)A front desk is empty at a hotel closed amid the COVID-19 pandemic in Cusco, Peru, Friday, Oct. 30, 2020. (AP Photo/Martin Mejia)A woman carries herbs in the Plaza de Armas in downtown Cusco, Peru, Thursday, Oct. 29, 2020. All major sites around Cusco are currently open for free, in hopes of sparking any tourism after the COVID-19 pandemic brought it to a standstill. (AP Photo/Martin Mejia)
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Tourist guide Efrain Valles, wearing a protective face mask, stands at his recently opened ice cream shop in Cuzco, Peru, Wednesday, Oct. 28, 2020. Valles, once one of the most sought-after tour guides in Cuzco high in Peru's Andes, is one of the 1.3 million people nationwide in a tourism industry devastated by the novel coronavirus and the measures imposed to fight its spread, including international travel restrictions. (AP Photo/Martin Mejia)
