View from my hostal in the capital city of Arequipa
Arequipa´s Plaza de Armas
Arequipa´s Catedral
View of two of the three volcanos surrounding Arequipa City
The stone church in my site of Madrigal
The municipality
The main plaza
Many of the houses are made of stone and many are abandoned for whatever reason... it´s like stepping back into the Middle Ages
In the background you can see where the canyon dives down sharply to its deepest point, coincidentally the deepest point on Earth (not the lowest- Death Valley?) not found underwater.
My buddy Maria... her lamb and her followed me around/showed me around for most of the three days I was there.
Trout farm
Bucolic paradise... wait ´til I get some pics up of the chacras (small farms)
Eating some boiled corn and hotcakes... everyone shares everything here and you can´t really turn it down and be polite... no matter how much you suspect it may carry the seeds of your discontent (in this case, diarrhea)
The town laundrymat
No toilet seats here... actually one of the nicest toilets you´re likely to find in my neck of the woods...
This dog has it figured out... he´ll walk into restaurants in the nearest big city, Chivay, and stand on two legs and whine until somebody tosses him something
The church in Chivay
Giant cross dug into the hillside at Chivay
Plaza de Armas, Chivay
A peek at Colca Canyon
When it rains, the mountains gather snow... beautiful
Facade of the church
Exploring the abandoned mine (18 years)
Waterfall!
Entrance to the mine, which is apparently haunted my midgets that turn into the devil...
Just gorgeous...
My rope bridge... not as dangerous as I had hoped...
For a sense of scale, that tall rock in the back is as big as a three-story building.
Rio Colca
Cahamarca City, the capital of the vast majority of this group of Volunteers
Driving to my Field-Based Training site
Contumaza, nestled in the Wisconsin highlands of Peru
Yes, they even had a Puma
Ancient tomb in the middle of their park
Catedral, Trujillo
Main square, Trujillo- where independence was declared by Jose San Martin in 1821
Chan Chan, the world´s largest adobe city- thousands of years old
Otters, thought to be brought by the Humboldt Current in a particularly strong El Niño year- never seen in these waters...
Some Peace Corps buds- Camille, Marian, JP ,and Nate
One of several Huacas, or temples, in Trujillo
On the way to the Holy Mountain of Marcahausi, in the Lima portion of the Andes
My fellow traveler Patti (no, not my girlfriend) and I before the ascent
My host brother Juan Carlos and I
The town of San Pedro de Casta- basecamp more or less
Finally here, after 4 hours... the Ampitheater
Sunset is just spectacular at 10,500 feet...
One of many rock formations- kind of looks like an old man, doesn´t it?
Reflective pool at the top of the mountain
Ancient burial shelters
The Monument of Humanity... at different times of day it appears to have different skin colors
Cloud ocean and my bro
Exhausted...
I think the very existence of cameras still surpises me- I always look confused...
Here is the start of Patti´s pics of the Marcahausi experience... my camera was still on the lam so she and Carlito took all the pics... oh, and it appears the camera won´t make it, which is very angering. I´ll buy another this week, which probably means a further tightening of the travel plans...
One of the few pics I snapped- wild donkeys...
Parque de Amor, Miraflores (swankier portion of Lima)
Patti, Glenn, Marian, Chris (who´ll be in Colca Canyon as well), and I
Good surfing...
My room here in Yanacoto, Lima
Our living room, housed some good times...
Our dogs, the ugliest of which is the coolest, naturally.
