Peru: Traditional lady and her llama
Peru: Local bird life looking for fish
Peru: Crafts for sale on the floating islands
Peru: Standing on a floating island of reeds
Peru: Even the boats are made entirely from reeds
Peru: View from a rickety watch tower
Peru: A great college
Peru: Alan (Bainbridge?) for president!
Peru: The mountains around Arequipa, from our lodging
Peru: Braaing with the locals
Peru: Quite a colourful monastery
Peru: The blue courtyard inside Santa Catalina
Peru: El Misti volcano on the way to Chivay
Peru: The beginning of Colcan Canyon
Peru: Cruz del Condor viewpoint - 2100m deep canyon at this point
Peru: A condor rising out of the canyon
Peru: Condors at Colca Canyon
Peru: Plaza de Armas in Cusco
Peru: Incredible 500 year old Inca masonry - Cusco
Peru: The avo lasted for 2 meals for the both of us!
Peru: Drinking a “machu picchu” in Cusco
Peru: A brave woman eating guinea pig
Peru: A rodent and childhood pet
Peru: Inca mummies in a nearby museum - Cusco
Peru: Many buildings in Cusco have original Inca foundations
Peru: Christ statue overlooking Cusco
Peru: Horse riding between the ruins outside Cusco
Peru: An Inca fortress
Peru: Sacsayhuaman ruins (pronounced “sexy woman”)
Peru: Sexy woman!
Peru: One of their 383 types of corn - this one is called choclo - good!
Peru: Terraces used for agriculture by the ancient Incas - Pisaq
Peru: Pisaq ruins in the Sacred Valley
Peru: Well crafted Inca grain storage silos built high up in the path of freezing Andean winds
Peru: Bizzare masonry - rocks are precarved to fit incredibly well together
Peru: Inca terraces at Ollantaytambo
Peru: Our excellent guide for our Sacred Valley tour dispelled many historical myths
Peru: Excellent views from the sights along the way
Peru: The door of the sun temple
Peru: The mountain in the background is Wayna Picchu
Peru: These terraces were supposedly used for agricultural research by Inca experts
Peru: Very well crafted masonry, distinctive of the Incas - again something to do with the position of the sun
Peru: The south eastern side of Machu Picchu
Peru: The start of the residential units
Peru: Such a high perched city
Peru: View back over Machu Picchu from Wayna Picchu
Peru: Colossal mountain peaks encircle Machu Picchu all around
Peru: Passing through a tight tunnel to reach the top of Wayna Picchu
Peru: Amazing cloud forests, incredibly steep mountains
Peru: More ruins at the top of Wayna Picchu
Peru: Full sun at Machu Picchu
Peru: Another peak - apparently it is also possible to scale this one!
Peru: The quintessential Machu Picchu shot
Peru: Back at Aguas Calientes enjoying a mexican lunch
Peru: 5am in Agua Calientes - the town square
Peru: The only way to Aguas Calientes and, therefore, to Machu Picchu (save the 4 day hike)
Peru: View from the Moray ruins - desert climate and high andean peaks
Peru: Another agricultural/astronomical terrace circle at Moray
Peru: Back in Cusco - typical Inca walls (bare rock) at the bottom topped by Spanish walls on top
Peru: Flying over the Nazca lines, Southern Peru
Peru: The whale...
Peru: The astronaut - a 100m figure made on a mountain side 100s of years ago
Peru: The monkey - 100m desert floor art by ancient people
Peru: The hummingbird
Peru: The hands - note 4 fingers on the one hand and 5 on the other
Peru: Huacachina is a desert oasis, surrounded by massive dunes
Peru: Our hotel even had a swimming pool
Peru: A lesser spotted red Huacachinean desert bird (named by Johan)
Peru: Huacachina from one of the surrounding dunes
Peru: Peruvian desert
Peru: Sandboarders climbing the dunes
Peru: Racing down a wave of sand
Peru: Perspective always helps!
Peru: The coastal road north of Lima
Peru (the north): Our night in a very budget hotel in San Ignacio - part of our amazing race...
Peru (the north): Some transport - part of our amazing race...
Peru (the north): The road to Kuelap
Peru (the north): Pre-Inca masonry at Kuelap
Peru (the north): Local resident
Peru (the north): Walking around remote ruins
Peru (the north): Some walls were up to 12m high
Peru (the north): We were the only visitors at these ruins
Peru (the north): Looking towards the road to Kuelap
Peru (the north): The outside wall of the fortress
Peru (the north): Chachapoyas - early morning
Peru (the north): Nando's expanding overseas
Peru (the north): Mountain tunnel again
Peru (the north): Signin office for the waterfall walk
Peru (the north): Our guide Pedro
Peru (the north): A precious memory
Peru (the north): This time of year we see only a tricle - it is apparently breathtaking in the rainy season
Peru (the north): An ice cold pool below
Peru (the north): The bottom section of the falls - 2.5hrs trekking to get there
Peru (the north): New friends! Local teaching institute students and us!
Peru (the north): Our small group - guides and all
Peru (the north): Stunning moth
Peru (the north): Jungle butterfly
Peru (the north): A massive fossil snail now built into the wall of our guide's house
Peru (the north): Our 1st glimpse of the legendary Rio Amazonas
Peru (the north): When a travel guide becomes too thick and too many pages are redundant...
Peru (the north): Sunrise over the Rio Amazonas in Iquitos
