 The land of the Incas |
 Public workers strike in Lima |
 Nazca pottery with design like "Lines" |
 Desert meets the sea south of Lima |
 Oasis near Nazca lines |
 Nazca viewing plane |
 Irrigated orchard in the desert |
 Nazca lines: the spider |
 Hummingbird |
 The parrot |
 The crane |
 Nazca plateau |
 Desert consuming the mountains |
 Like the Sahara |
 The Andes on flight to Cusco |
 Andes valley |
 Cusco airport |
 Oxen plowing above Cusco |
 Rural roof construction |
 Typical mountain village |
 The Sacred Valley of the Incas |
 The village of Pisca |
 A bustling village |
 Pisca open air market |
 Salt vender |
 Women shopping |
 Elaborate every day clothing |
 Guinea pig hotel at restaurant |
 Roast lamb |
 Quite beauty |
 Hats identify their village |
 Peruvian women at the productive sex |
 The tourists |
 Inca terracing above Pisca |
 Inca ruins |
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 Stone microscopic garden |
 Maize on the Sacred Valley |
 Market in Urobamba |
 Strange fruit tasting |
 Carbohydrate wagon |
 Motorcycle taxis in Urobamba |
 Ollytaytamba Inca street and water supply |
 Gay in a Checerea (bar) |
 Hand grinding maize for beer |
 Cultures and ages intersect |
 Courtyard of the checerea |
 The beer brewer and daughter |
 School's out in Ollytantamba |
 Streets as in Inca times |
 Sun temple at Ollytantamba |
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 Gay in the hotel courtyard |
 Still functioning Inca irrigation |
 Inca terracing |
 The hikers |
 Sacsaywaman ritual ruins above Cusco |
 Cusco |
 The shayman Pedro preparing ceremonial offering |
 Don receiving shayman's blessing |
 The omnipresent pipe entertainment |
 Our tour group |
 Farming above Urabamba |
 Andes moon rise |
 The delicacy: roast guinea pig |
 Country peruvian dinner |
 1st graders during our rural school visit |
 Gay confronts the language barrier |
 Temple of the Sun, Ollytantamba |
 Ceremonial terrace walls |
 Temple smooth, individually fit stones |
 The tourist duo |
 Dressed for tips |
 Urobamba river and the beginning of the Inca Trail to Machu Picchu |
 Train from Sacred Valley to Machu Picchu |
 The jungle town of Agua Caliente |
 Bus ride 2500 ft up to the ruins |
 Macchu Picchu at last |
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 Live lawn mower |
 Mountains,stone and clouds |
 Don and Gay |
 Temple mirrors mountains |
 Urobamba River 3000 ft below |
 Francis, our guide, demonstrates the power of sound |
 The Sun Stone |
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 Extensive ruins |
 The ruins atop Wannapicchu |
 Night in Agua Caliente |
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 Trail up Wannapicchu |
 The reverse view of Machu Picchu |
 Hair-raising road up to the ruins |
 360 degree spectacular |
 Solitude of the mountains |
 Intrepid mountain climber |
 Andes peak |
 Watch your step |
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 Carved rock depicts mountains |
 Agua caliente |
 Railroad through the center of town |
 Railway native dancer |
 Above the Sacred Valley |
 Learning the craft |
 Tossing yard balls |
 Backpack loom |
 Organic alpaca dyes |
 Bargaining for hats |
 Going native |