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Lima, Peru
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
