Monday, April 22, 2013

Peru in Photos

Self-explanatory

Cathedral in Cusco's Plaza de Armas

The traveling gang minus Mac, who was the photographer

An alley in San Blas neighborhood

We could have left these children home with their electronics and they would have never missed us.

alleyway in San Blas

the hike down from San Blas back to downtown Cusco

overlooking San Blas

Mac in the square overlooking Koricancha

 the traveling gang in front of Koricancha, a sacred Inca spot on which a convent was later built.  The black  rounded wall on the left side is the only original Incan ruins remaining in the compound. 

the fountain in Cusco's Plaza de Armas

the ruins at Sacsayhuaman

Sacsayhuaman

Mac, Isa and Jimmy entering a cave in Sacsayhuaman

Posing next to the Quechua woman, whom the children were terrified of. 

View from Sacsayhuaman looking to Cusco.

Incan architecture at Sacsayhuaman

bell tower in Cusco

Snowcapped mountains in the distance

Mac and me on the early-morning bus to Machu Picchu

Machu Picchu

is your mama a llama?

the boys at Machu Picchu

the Incan drawbridge (look down near the bottom)  - there's a board over the cut-out rectangle that was removable



Mac in an Incan window

Soaking up the positive energy at Machu Picchu


Namaste


Mac brushing his teeth at our hotel in the Sacred Valley

The Storys on the Incan steps in Pisac

Soaking up the energy at Ollantaytambo

Ollantaytambo

Ollantaytambo ruins

Sacred Valley

agricultural circles in Moray

Mac ran all the way down to the bottom and back up

a storm brewing over the Sacred Valley


Shopping for textiles (we ended up buying the burgundy one on the  bottom right)

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