Lima, Peru

Monastery in Lima, complete with the dearly departed

Urubamba Valley

Katherine & Glen, Debra & Lindsay, and our fearless guide, Ronnie

Our tour group

Cuzco at 12,000 feet

The people of Peru

The Mestizo ladies wear hats with brims. They are Indian and Spanish.

The Quechan Indian women

wear round, red hats.

The children of Peru

End of the line for the bus ride

The village of Willoq

This woman invited us into her home

The children gather in the village square. We

brought pencils to give them.

In the village of Urubamba, we were invited into another

home.

Guinea pig for dinner!

The market place in Urubamba

They grow over 400 varieties of potatoes

Fresh meat…

Llama fetuses are used in healing ceremonies

Beer smoothie for breakfast

In every village corn beer is made and served in the village Checharia

Machu Picchu

Great place to have a birthday!

The valleys are spectacular

Climb to Huayna Picchu, the “Young Peak”

Climbing to Huayna Picchu, the “Young Peak”

Highlands of the Andes

A farmer let us “help” him plow his field

The Quechan women of the Andes,

weaving their cloth

All of the wool is dyed using natural plants and minerals

From the dry highland to the steaming jungle…

The Amazon Queen

Variety of river craft

Don’t pull the vine, a snake might come down with it!

Typical homes on the Amazon

Our lodge

Swinging in the hammock was the only way to stay cool

The Shower

Our bedroom window

A visitor

We had mosquito netting over the beds, it felt like a tiny “room”

Dinner Bell

Yanomami village

The children have big bellies from drinking the water from the Amazon. They

have to be given medicine to rid them of the worms in their digestive tract.

Some of the small creatures

They make some kick-ass rum out there

This walkway tops out at 118’. Scientists use it

to study the forest canopy.

The view was beautiful

Medicinal plants are grown and studied at this

center

Bad face day

The channel with the inky, black water is

where the piranha live

The bait is raw meat

To fish, you load the bait, then splash the surface of the water

like an animal in trouble.

Everywhere you go, the local people are

ready to sell their wares.

Local soccer match, complete with pigs and chickens running onto the field.

Local mode of transportation to the big game

Not all of these beautiful birds

are nice!

We shared our ride with the

livestock

Journey home