the andes as seen from the plane!
cusco, south america's own little european city
christmas bread at the bus station!
things you do that you really shouldn't: take a crazy bus through the mountains in south america...
see the road below? it was like the same scenery, over and over and over.... good thing it was AWESOME!
first step on Inka Jungle Tour: get dropped off on side of road, put bike together.
OK guys, time to ride over the river! (love you JC!)
good thing we only went down hill, since the bikes didn't have any working gears... if only they'd had breaks!
ruins. everywhere!
road block.
a little stop in town with a flat tire. yes, that building is partially made of tree trunks...
5 hours on a mountain bike. mostly in the rain. awesome.
no really... it was fun!
looks like the bank is open!
papaya tree. note raging river and cable car... those come in later on down the trail...
recognize this? what if I added some steamed milk?
at some point, we just started picking up random bugs and stuff.
this is martin. he was a little crazy man. who got a little too excited in one of our friends back packs!
we started hiking that day somewhere behind the mountain on the left.
don't look so happy grant!
this really doesn't do justice to how small the path was... and how many hundreds of feet down the drop was....
(don't look down... don't look down... don't look down!)
we totally went across this hand pulled cable car. that river was way more raging than it looks...
most awesome hot springs ever. after 10 hours of hiking. mostly up hill. totally worth the $3.
grant with another random thing we decided to pick up
little bunny on a building in Maccu Picchu. when we arrived at 530am it was really foggy.
how they carved the bricks of these buildings so perfectly 800 years ago at the top of this mountain is mind blowing.
turns out, machu picchu has 3 springs in the city. this was part of the city water system. again, how they carved all this is beyond me.
llamas. Machu Picchu's green lawn mowers.
terraces. some were for agriculture, some for keeping the city from falling off the side of the mountain! All: beautiful.
things started to clear up, and then it was really amazing! the city was WAY bigger than I thought it would be.
almost there!
climbing down the back side of Huayna Picchu, there were these big wooden ladders. so dangerous. dangerously awesome.
on the back side of Huayna Picchu we discovered our own ruins (or at least it felt like it because there was no one else there) The Temple of the Moon!
I love this little tripod.
Llamas in line for lunch.
words are not enough to describe...
the amazon from the plane
the iquitos airplane. for some reason this didn't scare us...
mototaxi. best. mode of transport. ever.
the boardwalk view in Iquitos.
our guide john, and the power boat we took up the Amazon to our "lodge"
our own little river off the amazon. complete with river lettuce:)
these seed pod things were full of red seeds that for some reason every guide we had wanted us to paint our faces with...
funniest branches ever. apparently people in the jungle leave these on the doorsteps of people they like. if you like them back, you have to leave them on their door steps with in a week.
just climbing some vines...
ate that. it tasted like coconut.
ate that too. tasted like chewy lettuce.
termites! rubbed them all over our body. best mosquito repellent ever! and they tasted like mint!
hey, look what I pull out of the ground!
jungle lodge. the sound of the birds here was BEAUTIFUL.
our front door.
things l love: canoes!
look what we found in the jungle!
floating lettuce.
swimming with the dolphins in the amazon... too busy swimming to actually get a picture of course!
the lake we camped by and went pirhana fishing in.
Lima. Like a lower budget version of LA. Sprawl. Yuck.
Busing it up to Mancora, the surf town where I got a tan. I didn't take out my camera once...
