Taxi colectivo Iñapari - Puerto Maldonado ( 5hrs) |
Result |
Talking parrots |
Rio Madre de Dios, Puerto Maldonado |
Election fever |
Presidential elections coming up |
School boys playing |
Puerto Maldonado |
School girls, Puerto Maldonado, Peru |
Puerto Maldonado |
Puerto Maldonado |
Puerto Maldonado |
Surely one more could fit? |
Baby orphan parrot |
My jungle guide Luzmila |
Boat ride, 3 day trip to Tambopata in Peruvian Amazon basin |
Lunch |
Turtle |
My room in jungle lodge Inotawa (Tambopata Nature Reserve) |
Huge tree |
Ahhh, the good life |
Catamaran |
Piranha |
Butterfly eating salt |
Swimming between the piranhas! |
Oops, took a wrong turn |
Termites |
Jungle Jane |
Caiman junior |
Macaws and other birds at clay lick |
Monkey Pepe |
Natural swimming pool, Puerto Maldonado, Peru |
Marco and I |
Motorbike trip around Puerto Maldonado |
Tame jaguar at El Jaguar animal refuge, Puerto Maldonado |
Both of us could do with a cuddle... El Jaguar animal refuge |
Topi at El Jaguar animal refuge |
Ride to airport, Puerto Maldonado |
Puerto Maldonado airport |
Jungle (Amazon Basin, Peru) |
Cusco airport, note proximity of residential area |
Niños Hotel, Cusco, www.ninoshotel.com |
Jolanda (founder of Niños) and I |
Alfredo and Piet |
Lourdes and two other friends of Jolanda´s |
Presidential elections coming up - how to vote |
Late lunch, each sub group made a dish |
Treehouse for Jolanda´s kids |
One of the childrens´ restaurants of Niños Unidos Peruanos |
Jolanda |
(forgot name), Sabine and Jolanda |
4 hour horseback tour through Huasao mountains |
Huasao mountains |
Huasao mountains, Peru |
Huasao mountains |
A well deserved sandwich (and the wine was horrible) |
Niños apartments in Huasao |
Niños apartments in Huasao |
Niños apartments in Huasao |
Lourdes, administrator at Niños Hotels |
Huasao village |
Avenida Washington in Huasao |
Inca Kola and the likes |
Plaza de Armas, Huasao |
Quechua fortune teller in Huasao (my future looks bright) |
Quechua fortune teller |
Avenida del Sol, Cusco |
Election fever |
Panay (Jolanda´s eldest) |
Oscar and Panay |
Jolanda and her youngest: Toulouse |
Jolanda, Toulouse, Wilbert, José, Oscar and Panay |
Panay, Oscar and Wilbert |
Lady who works at Huasao |
Just another internet cafe |
Election fever: popular candidate Ollanta speaking in Cusco |
Election fever, Cusco, Peru |
Election fever: right wing extremist Ollanta speaking in Cusco |
My room in Niños Hotel, Cusco |
Market in Pisac, Peru |
Market in Pisac |
Market in Pisac |
Market in Pisac, Peru |
Market in Pisac |
Market in Pisac, Peru |
Pisac |
Pisac |
Toulouse, Jolanda and Panay |
Bus ride Cusco - Andahuaylas (11 hours) |
Abancay (halfway between Cusco and Andahuaylas) |
Scary ravines during bus ride Cusco - Andahuaylas |
Bus ride Cusco - Andahuaylas |
Andahuaylas |
Laguna de Pacucha |
Sondor, ruins from Chanka people, the Inca´s rivals |
Switzerland in Peru? Sondor |
Sondor |
Laguna de Pacucha seen from Sondor, Peru |
New poncho in the making |
Kids in Pacucha |
Plaza de Armas, Andahuaylas |
Plaza de Armas, Ayacucho |
Ayacucho |
Election fever reaching its zenith |
Election fever reaching its zenith |
Volleyball at 2700 meters above sea level ! |
Sand mozaic for Semana Santa, Ayacucho |
Sand mozaic for Semana Santa |
School girls who interviewed me about Semana Santa (Holy Week) |
Semana Santa procession, Ayacucho |
Semana Santa procession, Ayacucho |
Semana Santa procession, Ayacucho |
Semana Santa procession, Ayacucho |
Semana Santa procession, Ayacucho |
Breaking the sand mozaics is symbolic |
Semana Santa procession, Ayacucho |
A new use for the sand mozaics |
Señoritas needed (who doesn´t?) |
Fireworks before another Semana Santa procession, Ayacucho |
Fireworks before Semana Santa procession, Ayacucho |
School boys who interviewed me about Semana Santa (middle one was especially curious) |
Semana Santa procession, Ayacucho |
Semana Santa procession, Ayacucho, Peru |
Semana Santa procession, Ayacucho, Peru |
Semana Santa procession, Ayacucho |
A ride with two priests to Huancavelica |
Checking the tyres |
On the way to Huancavelica (from Santa Inés) |
Alpacas |
Lamas and sheep freak out in front of the car |
The presidential elections, 9 April 2006 |
Plaza de Armas, Huancavelica (+3690 meters) |
Fountain in Huancavelica |
Huancavelica |
Huancavelica |
I rescued this boy when his sweater was caught by the barbed wire |
Huancavelica |
Went swimming in these thermal mineral waters with healing powers |
Huancavelica train station |
Huancavelica train station |
Huancavelica train station |
Train tracks Huancavelica |
Huancavelica train station |
Huancavelica train station, Peru |
Huancavelica train station |
Huancavelica - Huancayo train |
Huancavelica - Huancayo train |
Piglets |
View from the train |
Huancavelica - Huancayo train |
View from the train |
Huancavelica - Huancayo train |
View from the train |
Huancavelica - Huancayo train |
Huancavelica - Huancayo train |
Pretty crowded |
One of over 30 tunnels |
Halfway the soldiers got off and left more room for us |
View from the train |
Huancavelica - Huancayo train |
Mining, along way Huancayo - Lima |
Mining, along way Huancayo - Lima |
Huancayo - Lima |
View on the road from Huancayo to Lima |
View on the road from Huancayo to Lima |
View on the road from Huancayo to Lima |
Marko Antonio (from Lima) and I |
Park behind San Francisco cathedral, Lima |
Semana Santa procession from San Francisco cathedral, Lima |
Semana Santa procession from San Francisco cathedral, Lima |
Semana Santa procession from San Francisco cathedral, Lima |
Semana Santa procession from San Francisco cathedral, Lima, Peru |
Semana Santa procession from San Francisco cathedral, Lima |
Semana Santa procession from San Francisco cathedral, Lima |
Semana Santa procession from San Francisco cathedral, Lima, Peru |
Doves |
Plaza de Armas (Plaza Mayor), Lima |
Yummm - hamburgers, Peru |
Knock knock, who's there? |
Catholic images (?) |
Confession during Semana Santa |
In line for confession, Lima, Peru |
Technology finds its way into church. Just throw in a coin to light a candle. |
Ceiling in church |
No lack of donations, apparently - San Pedro church, Lima |
During Semana Santa, Lima, Peru |
Ceiling in church |
Not only gold but also lots of suffering and blood |
Lima cemetery |
Lima cemetery |
Lima cemetery |
Lima cemetery |
Lima cemetery |
Lima cemetery |
Lima cemetery |
Lima cemetery |
Palm ornaments for Semana Santa |
Riots when people tried to build illegal food stalls |
The people won the battle over the food stalls |
Cuy, or in English: guinea pigs! |
Cuy (guinea pigs)... :-S |
Bustling food stalls during Semana Santa |
Thursday before Easter - "7 churches day" |
San Francisco cathedral, Lima |
Food stall during Semana Santa |
Food stall during Semana Santa |
Food stalls during Semana Santa, Lima, Peru |
Plaza de Armas during Semana Santa |
Piet and his grassy friend |
Easter bread |
Girl |
Jimi Hendrix junior |
Flight home |
Seems like the Ollague volcano on Chile / Bolivia border (?) |
Lake Titicaca |
Lake Titicaca |