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mountaintop refuge of Incan royalty, with elegant halls and plazas much like those of fabled Macchu Picchu just 30 miles (50 kilometers away). Yet only a handful of tourists visit each day, those willing to make a two-day hike to reach its majestic solitude.
• That is about to change: The national government has approved what will be Peru's first aerial tramway. Bridging the deep canyon of the Apurimac River, it will make Choquequirao reachable in just 15 minutes from the nearest highway.
• The 3-mile (5-kilometer) long cable car is designed to whiz 400 people an hour in each direction a half mile (nearly a kilometer) above the river. The president of the Apurimac state government, Elias Segovia, anticipates the $45 million tramway will bring about 3,000 tourists a day after it opens in late 2015.
• "This is going to generate tourist services. It will generate great investment" in hotels, restaurants and other amenities, he says.
• The idea is to shift some of the tourist burden from Machu Picchu, where authorities have a limit of 2,500 daily visitors and where reservations are now required for people who wish to hike the famed Inca Trail to the ruins.
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• BEIJING (AP) -- A woman tricked a 6-year-old boy into going into a field in northern China, and then gouged out his eyes, police said Wednesday.
• The boy's brutal ordeal happened Saturday in a rural area of Linfen city in Shanxi province, the city's police bureau said in a statement. State media said the boy was recovering in a hospital, but had lost his sight permanently.
• A police officer who only gave his surname, Liu, said he couldn't speculate on a motive because the investigation was continuing.
• "We are sparing no efforts trying to solve this case," Liu added.
• Liu said the boy's eyeballs were found at the scene, and that the corneas hadn't been removed.
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