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Mum and I have just got back from a fantastic 2 week cruise. Our ship was the Balmoral from the Fred Olsen Cruise Line and we enjoyed every fantastic moment aboard her. And after two weeks of snowy cold weather, we were definitely looking forward to some sunshine and blue skies.We set out on 7th December. Colin drove us to Southampton and thankfully we got there without mishap. We took our time

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Well I have undertaken the first part of the long journey home and am now in Lima airport with nearly 7 hours to wait until my flight departs for Madrid tonight. We were awake early and had a light breakfast and arrived at Cusco airport before 9 am.There it was easy to check in with no crowds, and a delightful surprise to learn that I could check in for the whole trip from Cusco to Lima, from

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I hope this link works to view my photo album which is now complete. If not you can still see the pictures from the old link - scroll down the list on the RH side of my blog - which states 506 photos but in actual fact there are now 1178 covering the period October to February. A final blog entry about the trip will be written from Lima airport on Thursday.http://www3.truprint.co.uk/

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Well I have less than a week here before flying home and thought it was about time I wrote another blog entry – the next one will be the last entry covering this 2009/2010 Peru visit, and will probably be written at Lima airport on the day I fly home. I have almost 8 hours to wait at Lima before my evening flight departs and unfortunately will be unable to spend time with my friend Ernesto as he

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Radio Urubamba was full of news of the disaster last Monday and by then many of the houses built from adobe bricks were collapsing into the flood water and it was sad to see so many families trying to rescue their belongings, themselves sitting amongst their furniture in the backs of lorries or pushing handcarts - none of these people believe in insurance so it was a real disaster for them. We

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Over the past few days we have had torrential rain in the Sacred Valley - only at night in Urubamba but day and night in other parts of the Sacred Valley and in Cusco. My friend Sarah who moved to the centre of Pisac from the outer edges of Taray village on my advice, managed to come to Urubamba for the day yesterday but when she arrived she said the river level was up to road level and that some

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Alfredo really enjoyed his birthday – Nohemy´s friend Betty and her husband Lucho came to the house for the meal which was Alfredo´s favourite fried pork, with a special spicy sauce, a mint and onion salad and potatoes, plus the inevitable maize they love so much here. Betty brought a bottle of wine and Nohemy was listening to her favourite Mexican music and singing away. Their tenant who runs

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Since writing last I have been to a birthday party - Daniel´s - which took place in his parents home. His Mum provided a delicious meal for everyone and we were all seated in the recording studio upstairs with brilliant andean music playing on their fantastic sound set up. I really enjoyed it. Wilber was there and said the reason his Mum´s birthday party was cancelled was because she had been

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On the Sunday after Christmas we were invited to a Pachamanca by the two main workmen working on Nohemy´s extension (they are working on several other properties as well)- We arrived early in the morning in order to watch the process whereby an oven is created in the ground with bricks all around and firewood and lots of stones are heated in this until it reaches a certain temperature. They had

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It is now Boxing Day in Peru and things are pretty well back to normal already. Even yesterday was a normal working day for many, especially the moto drivers, carro and combi drivers, bus companies etc. In the past weeks the market has been incredibly busy every day with extra stalls selling panetone cakes and wine, toys and christmas trees and decorations.I went to Muna restaurant again on

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I'd like to share my Truprint photos with you. Once you have checked out my photos you can order prints and upload your own photos to share.Click here to view photos

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It has been a fairly quiet week or so since I last wrote. I still visit the restaurant to see Beatriz and the others once a week and have started giving the occasional English lesson there. Wilber, the resident musician has moved to another restaurant and the one who replaced him doesnt play nearly such nice music. Last week I went with Beatriz to see Wilber and Patricia´s new baby, 2 weeks old,

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On Saturday 5th December we attended Henry and Carmens wedding in Cusco. Nohemy and I had to have our hair done in the morning because Ruben, her tenant hairdresser, had to go out in the afternoon - I wasted over two hours in there and hated the end result! Once we left the salon Nohemy was anxious to get to Cusco as she wanted to post the birthday present for her son in Switzerland. In Cusco we

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I'd like to share my Truprint photos with you. Once you have checked out my photos you can order prints and upload your own photos to share.Click here to view photos

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I have just uploaded 48 of the photos taken in my recent visit to Echarate but at present am having problems uploading my photostream into my blog, having set up a new flickr account for these. However, if you enter www.flickr.com and sign in, and search with the tag Urubamba09 you will be able to see them there. Hopefully within a week or two I will have worked out another way to get photos onto

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I have just got back from Echarate which is about the closest I will ever get to a rainforest experience. My friend Wilber accompanied me as it was a bit of a risky venture to undertake on my own. We caught the bus on Tuesday morning at nine thirty, which was already an hour and a half into its journey from Cusco. By paying slightly more we were in a spacious coach with plenty of leg room and

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This major event was the last of the celebrations which began two or three weeks ago celebrating 170 years of Urubamba. Nohemy and I got up early so that we could get a picnic ready - I went to the market for three chicken breasts which she roasted in the oven along with potatoes and we also made spaghetti and a salad with lettuce, tomatoes and red onion, sprinkled with salt and a couple of limes

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Last Friday we went to Cusco again for an overnight stay. We didnt travel in until the afternoon so I didnt bother contacting Juan this time. It rained heavily so I didnt feel like going to KamiKase either, getting soaked to the skin before even arriving there, even though I am sure Juan would have accompanied me had I asked. On Saturday morning Nohemy went back to Urubamba immediately after

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The main subject of this entry is all the celebrations that have been taking place in Urubamba over the past week or so. The first event we attended was an evening performance of live music put on free for the more elderly population of Urubamba when the Mayor thanked them for their input over the years in the progression of Provincia Urubamba as a whole. Whilst the speeches of the major and

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Not much different has been happening lately apart from a few visits to Cusco. I went last week having arranged to meet Juan in Plaza de Armas at 12 noon and I charged up my camera the night before so I could take more photos of him and the other guys. I made my way to Lan´s main office and changed the return date of my flight ticket to 18th February which is probably the latest I will stay here.

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An andean bull and its ownerOriginally uploaded by Angela Amanatullah

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Urubamba countrysideOriginally uploaded by Angela Amanatullah

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I have added more photos to my photostream at flickr - featuring the magical day out at the Pumawanca trout farm, a picnic in the countryside, musicians in Cusco, fiestas at Yucay, Calca, Pisac and San Salvador, a visit to Tunupa restaurant, various miscellaneous views, etc. From now on when I add more I will reorder them so that the later ones appear first. If you click on this photo it will

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Well I am now on my way back from my visit with Elva and Hugo in Ilo. I said goodbye to them at 12 noon today and set off on the first leg of the journey back. The journey was a monotonous vista of sand and rock and curving roads busy with lorries and buses - it is amazing that those roads are as stable as they are on such uncertain looking terrain. I remember on an early visit seeing the road

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This morning Elva had a marathon cooking session as each week on Monday mornings she sends an ice-box full of cooked meals to her son in Arequipa who misses her home cooking and he reciprocates at the end of the week by sending lots of delicacies for her and Hugo that are only available in Arequipa. Anyhow I watched and learned while she was cooking and set out below are the various

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After three months living in Urubamba I decided to go on a trip and visit my friends Hugo and Elva in Ilo. This involved a two bus journey, first to Arequipa and then another bus for the last leg to Ilo. The day before starting this journey I went to Cusco with Nohemy and Alfredo and spent a very pleasant couple of days there with them, and they accompanied me to the bus terminal in the evening,

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About a week ago Rosalio and his wife and children called for me and we got a couple of motos to the taxi stand and then negotiated the cost of a taxi to take us high into the hills to a trout farm called Pumawanka. This involved a delightful drive through lush countryside, the road winding ever higher and higher with splendid views down to the cultivated plains below, against the backdrop of

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Not much has happened that is different than things already written up apart from a couple of visits to Cusco, once with Nohemy and Alfredo and the second time to meet up with Juan and other musicians in Plaza de Armas.I met Juan by the fountain as usual and then sat on the cathedral steps with the other musicians who were waiting for an opportunity to play in Paititi´s restaurant. I chatted in

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Nohemy and Alfredo at San SalvadorOriginally uploaded by Angela AmanatullahMore photos have ben uploaded today - 91 so far in this photostream of my Peru2009 adventure. Another 40 or so will be added near the beginning of October.

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On Monday, Nohemy, Alfredo and I set off for San Salvador to attend the temple of El Senor de Huanca high in the hills. It involved a bus journey through the Sacred Valley as far as Pisac and then we had to cross the bridge and look for a collectivo to take us on to San Salvador. We managed this okay but with three of us crammed in the back, the driver stopped to try and fit someone else in which

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It has been about 10 days since I last wrote an entry but this is mainly because things have been pretty quiet. Life here is much the same from day to day and I don´t want to write about the same old things!We went to Cusco for the weekend seeing as no workmen were available, setting off after lunch and on arrival went straight to the house and cooked lunch. I sunbathed up on the roof terrace in

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Today is the first quiet moment since last Friday, the weekend in between having been rather hectic. I travelled to Cusco on Saturday and had fun in one of the markets looking for CDs and managed to find about 10 that aren´t in my collection, a couple of them DVDs of live concerts. Later after a bite to eat, we arrived at the Municipal Theatre and joined the queue waiting to go in. Although the

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Last Saturday night we went to see the second production of Kusikay which was equally as spectacular as the first production seen in Cusco last year. Here is a bit of info about the show as taken from the brochure.Kusikay specialises in creating plays that integrate elements from the theatre, circus, dance, music and live folklore, presenting outstanding pieces that allow the audience to get in

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Hotel where Layla and I stayed last yearOriginally uploaded by Angela AmanatullahThese are the first 48 pictures and if you click on this photostream you should be able to move on and see the others. a few more will be added tomorrow, plus another batch at the beginning of September once my monthly limit (for August) has been reached.

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It hardly seems two weeks since I last wrote a blog entry - despite the leisurely life style here the time seems to be really flying.The weather has been really fantastic the last couple of weeks, without even one day of cloud or rain, just one small shower that was gone and forgotten within the hour. I have visited Cusco quite a few times, sometimes in the afternoon just for a few hours. I tend

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It has been about a week and no opportunity to write another blog entry. Leisurely though life is here, somehow I rarely find time to stay at an internet cafe long enough to write the next entry; what time I have is spent catching up on replies to those who have written.We had glorious weather the whole past week and I am as brown as a berry already. I have got my little kitchen up and running

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Last night we went to the most fantastic fiesta in the nearby village of Yucay and it was an incredibly enjoyable evening. I went there with the Peruviandina brothers, Daniel and Rosalio and another lad called Raidan and when we got off the bus and crossed the road I could see I would really enjoy the afternoon and evening. An Andean band were playing on a stage under those Pisonay trees and

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We are in Cusco today and unable to get back to Urubamba due to another countrywide transport strike. After breakfast we set out shopping as I had promised to cook my version of Peruvian Pork today (Adobo de Chancho to a Puno recipe). Nohemy said we would walk to the nearby market .... nearby!!! It was about three miles walk through a part of town no foreigner would ever venture. The sun was

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The past few days since my visit to Cusco have been really enjoyable. Arriving back in Urubamba after that great day out in Cusco I went straight round to Carlos and Lidia´s house as Lidia´s parents had arrived from the rain forest at Quillabamba and were anxious to meet me, seeing as I am going to be godmother to their two little grand daughters on 1st August. Two other musicians called in as

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I am writing again on Tueday, nearly a week after my arrival and I must say, I am really loving being here, staying with Alfredo and Nohemy who are really kind, and Urubamba is such a delightful place, down in a valley surrounded by mountains some of which are snow capped and the weather here is warm and sunny all the year round. The rainy season won´t start until November and I imagine by then I

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After an arduous two day journey I finally reached my destination yesterday and still find it hard to believe that I am actually here. Left home around midnight on Wednesday, got to the airport 2 am but couldnt check in until 4.30 which was when I hit the first snag of the journey. My luggage was way over the limit and one of the cases was four kilos over the maximum weight limit for any one item

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In the dinghy heading for beachOriginally uploaded by Angela Amanatullah

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Visiting Lonesome GeorgeOriginally uploaded by Angela Amanatullah

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Sealions in the GalapagosOriginally uploaded by Angela Amanatullah

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Music played for us at SacsaywamanOriginally uploaded by Angela Amanatullah

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Layla and me at ColcaOriginally uploaded by Angela Amanatullah

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Juan on tracks, Aguas CalientesOriginally uploaded by Angela Amanatullah

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Plaza des Armas from our hotel balconyOriginally uploaded by Angela Amanatullah

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Child on back Urubamba marketOriginally uploaded by Angela Amanatullah

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View from Hotel QuitoOriginally uploaded by Angela Amanatullah

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Band on stage at Chez MaggyOriginally uploaded by Angela Amanatullah

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CHRISTENING PIC5Originally uploaded by Angela Amanatullah

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Cusco cathedralOriginally uploaded by Angela Amanatullah

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Yolita dining tableOriginally uploaded by Angela Amanatullah

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Me Garol Galapagos arrivalOriginally uploaded by Angela Amanatullah

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Pair of AlbatrossOriginally uploaded by Angela Amanatullah

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Sol y Mar patioOriginally uploaded by Angela Amanatullah

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Ros and me on beachOriginally uploaded by Angela Amanatullah

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Washington and sealionOriginally uploaded by Angela Amanatullah

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Heading for our yacht in GalapagosOriginally uploaded by Angela Amanatullah

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Rosalind and me at the Charles Darwin CentreOriginally uploaded by Angela Amanatullah

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Taken near the 12 sided stoneOriginally uploaded by Angela Amanatullah

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Elva, Layla and me at Arequipa1Originally uploaded by Angela Amanatullah

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Elva and me at Cruz del CondorOriginally uploaded by Angela Amanatullah

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Plaza des Armas from rooftop, ArequipaOriginally uploaded by Angela Amanatullah

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Musicians playing for us in Arequipa cafeOriginally uploaded by Angela Amanatullah

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Walking to Machu Picchu!Originally uploaded by Angela Amanatullah

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In jewellry shop Aguas CalientesOriginally uploaded by Angela Amanatullah

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me baby alpaca canyon viewOriginally uploaded by Angela Amanatullah

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View of Cusco Plaza des Armas from Cappuccino cafeOriginally uploaded by Angela Amanatullah

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Juan Layla and me Kamikase clubOriginally uploaded by Angela Amanatullah

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Jorge and Pablo on stage KamikaseOriginally uploaded by Angela Amanatullah

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Beer and fun with DanielOriginally uploaded by Angela Amanatullah

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Layla and me at Machu PicchuOriginally uploaded by Angela Amanatullah

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I am back in Cusco for a few days until I fly to Lima early the day after tomorrow, and thence my flight homeward which departs in the evening. I was missing all my new friends in Cusco and a fiesta I didn´t want to miss, hence the decision to come back for the last few days.The fiesta in Santiago was brilliant, in a part of town that most foreigners would avoid but with Juan, Jorge and Pablo I

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Well it has been a few days since I last wrote. We had another day out in Urubamba recently which was just as enjoyable as the first time. The four of us travelled out on an early morning bus, once again enjoying the indescribably beautiful countryside along the way. It was fun to watch Jorge play again in the restaurant and the weather was brilliant and hot again as it mostly is in the Sacred

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I am writing again on Saturday, after arriving back from Machu Picchu last Wednesday night. The train journey was very enjoyable with Layla and me enjoying music on the ipod all the way. The trolley came round with refreshments and we enjoyed a pisco sour the first time round, a coffee next time and finally a Cusquena beer. The view over Cusco by night as the train zig zagged back down from the

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Hi again. We are enjoying our last hour in Aguas Calientes and at 5 pm will be catching the train back to Cusco. We have really enjoyed our stay here and are sorry we aren´t staying longer. Both Cusco and Aguas Calientes are magical places!We stayed 3 nights here altogether and just love it here. Aguas Calientes is a really vibrant little town and no matter where you are, you are never far from

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This episode of my travels will probably be shorter than usual, just writing about the magic of last Saturday night. Today is Monday night and we have had a magical day up at Machu Picchu, a fantastic 9 hours up there and almost the first thing we did when we came back down the mountain tonight was to go and buy another lot of tickets to go again tomorrow at dawn!When I left the internet cafe

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Have I died and gone to heaven? It feels like it, I am so ecstatically happy to be in Cusco, my favourite place in the whole world! This is our third night in Cusco and we have enjoyed so much incredible live music. When we left the internet cafe the other day,Layla and I popped back to our room to add more clothes - it is amazing how it cools down at night here. From warm sunny t-shirt weather

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Just a short note to let you know we arrived in Cusco early this morning. Despite not getting to sleep until nearly 11 pm, we were up around 3 am and downstairs and our taxi arrived 15 minutes early. Hence when we arrived at the airport it was all closed up. The security guard at the barrier made contact with one in the airport telling him he had two senoras in a taxi and I heard the comment

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When I finished my last internet writing episode, I went to join Layla who was outside across the road from our hotel, chatting to some musicians. Whilst I was still online she said they had an interesting looking CD so I went to investigate. The musicians introduced themselves as Jose, who was with his three sons and a nephew and it was clear they were practising and that the sons were still

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