Farewell dinner with the Jakles in early July.
Our Peru tour group in our hotel in Cuzco.
This is a flattened, fried guinea pig still sporting claws, wiskers, teeth and some hair. Dan ate this. I had chicken.
Dan and I with our guide and a porter at the 14,000´+ pass on the Lares trek in Peru. I confess I had to ride the horse the last bit up to the top.
Dan and I met up with the other four members of our tour group at Machu Picchu after they finished hiking the Inca Trail. We were in a cloud but the weather cleared later.
A stone wall at Machu Picchu.
A very interesting staircase in one of the rooms at Machu Picchu.
Here we are at Machu Picchu, which was the highlight of the trip.
Machu Picchu. There are not enough superlatives to adequately describe this place, which is carved into the top of a mountain; surrounded by lush, steep peaks; and hidden deep in the Andes.
We visited the famous human-made reed islands on Lake Titticaca.
Digver and Dan on an island in Lake Titicaca.
Our bus being transported across a channel in Lake Titicaca that separates Peru and Bolivia. The passengers crossed in a motor boat. The day before, five tourists died when their boat overturned in the channel.
The courtyard of a restored church in La Paz, Bolivia. I don´t remember the name of the church but will look it up some time and update this.
The family we lived with in Otavalo for two weeks while attending language school. We have never eaten so well!
This is the a view up the street on which the Medardo family lives in Otavalo, Ecuador. It´s right next to the Pan American highway.
Dan and Juan, one of his language instructors.
Dan and friends before we embarked on a hike up a muddy path to a beautiful, hidden waterfall near Otavalo, Ecuador. It was an outing with our language school.
Jim Knight: here is the flag you gave to Cotacachi, Ecuador!
Our house in Galapagos.
Here´s the living room, dining room and kitchen of our humble abode in Puerto Ayoro, Isla Santa Cruz, Galapagos.
Dan in repose in our house in Galapagos eating Oreos.
The dock in Puerto Ayora, Isla Santa Cruz, Galapagos. The building is one of two main grocery stores, called Pro Insular. This is one of the places where we buy Oreos.
Floreana marine iguana. Galapagos is home to the world´s only species of marine iguanas. The ignanas on Isla Floreana have this distinctive coloring. The ones on Santa Cruz, where we live, are black. The iguanas feed on marine algae.
This is a Nazca boobie.
The water is cold in Galapagos!
My favorite photo so far.
Here I am after our hike to Sierra Negra on Isla Isabela. It´s the second largest volcanic crater in the world after Ngorogoro Crater. It last erupted in 2005 and 1998. I am thinking about when I get to have Oreos next.
A marine iguana on the beach on Isla Isabela.
White-tipped sharks and marine iguanas at Los Tinterones on Isla Isabela near Puerto Villamil.
A blue-footed boobie on Isla Seymour.
Flamingoes in a salt lagoon near the beach on Isla Seymour.
