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Peru 2012

Kay and I spent two weeks in Peru with Aaron and Yupeng - here are the highlights of the trip! Also, Carl hooked me up with a Lytro to borrow, the pictures are here: https://pictures.lytro.com/kerry/stories/42258.
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A far shot of Maras, a community owned Salt "mine" - it's not really a mine, they divide up a very, very salty stream into evaporation ponds and then recover the salt that way.
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A far shot of Maras, a community owned Salt "mine" - it's not really a mine, they divide up a very, very salty stream into evaporation ponds and then recover the salt that way.

  • Kay looking so happy with her stick and water. "I MADE IT TO THE TOP!" (and my camera bag, as I was too much of a wuss to be able to hold it)
  • At this point, I was moving really, really slowly. And everyone was waiting for me at the bottom, watching bemusedly.
  • We maaaaaaddddeee itttt! (cue Kerry wanting to fall over)
  • The peaks of the Andes, off in the distance outside of Chinchero.
  • I loved the "Andean Good Luck Bulls", or "toritos de Pucara", and had to get a picture of them. Crazily, someone on the internets took a picture of the exact same two bulls in 2010, and I found their picture as the first result in google:<br /><br /><a href="http://alpaca-suitcase.blogspot.com/2010/12/peruvian-fusion-andean-good-luck-charm.html" target="_blank">http://alpaca-suitcase.blogspot.com/2010/12/peruvian-fusion-andean-good-luck-charm.html</a>
  • A small building in Chinchero connecting to the Andean ridgeline - I'm pretty sure that the peak is Nevado Veronica, the highest peak in the "Cordillera Urubamba", the moutains around the Valle Sagrado.
  • An Incan drainage channel, and of course more stairs in Chinchero.
  • The Catholic Church in Chinchero, built on the knocked over Incan temples. The Church part was pretty beat up, but the Incan walls were in great shape still.
  • The terraced hits around the Church in Chinchero
  • Vanna Nicholson?
  • How YOU doin'?
  • We saw a lot of parades in Peru - this one was a young couple and their families on their way to the church to get married.
  • A textile demostration in Chincherco.<br />
  • A look down into "Moray", what is believed to be an Incan agriculture test site - there can be huge differences in temps between the top & bottom. And of course there were lots of stairs to climb to get to the bottom.
  • A smaller circle right next to the main area at Moray, and I think that that tourist bus is about to pounce.
  • Kay decided that it wasn't worth going to the bottom of this one, she was saving her heat stroke potential for the main "pit". She happily encouraged Yupeng to exert himself, though.
  • Near the bottom of the main depression at Moray.
  • Am I really raising the roof at a place which couldn't really have a roof?
  • A far shot of Maras, a community owned Salt "mine" - it's not really a mine, they divide up a very, very salty stream into evaporation ponds and then recover the salt that way.
  • A view down into the Urubamba Valley from the road on the way to the salt works
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