2. Travel

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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The Sillustani graves - at around 13,000 ft, and those round structures are actual graves/tombs, called "chullpas". They were built by the Colla people, a pre-incan society that were conquered by the Incans
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The Sillustani graves - at around 13,000 ft, and those round structures are actual graves/tombs, called "chullpas". They were built by the Colla people, a pre-incan society that were conquered by the Incans

  • PIG BUTT!
  • Poppies on Taquile<br />
  • Everything here had symbolism, which I've promptly forgotten. I'm such an american.<br />
  • Another group at the festival...
  • All of Taquile was terraced - it's pretty crazy, and really visible in Google Maps<br />
  • The water on Lake Titicaca was super calm - the boat wakes went on forever. And look - more steps to get down to the water!
  • Awwwww. And iPhoto's face detection is trying to get me to name the faces on the stone arch.
  • Is Yupeng about to charge the oh-so-confident Kay?
  • Yep, that's the dock, up that the top is where the stone arch with the faces was. Lots of stairs! (You can see it if you zoom in, just below the house in the middle)
  • A view of the terracing on Taquile
  • Cool clouds on the boat ride back to Puno from Taquile. Travel tip for future travellers - ask for the fast boat if you're going to go to Taquile.
  • Crazy clouds and hills around Lake Titicaca.
  • Our hotel in Puno<br />
  • More cool ripples from the boat wake - the clamness of the water plus the reeds to dampen things made for good photo takin'!
  • The Sillustani graves - at around 13,000 ft, and those round structures are actual graves/tombs, called "chullpas". They were built by the Colla people, a pre-incan society that were conquered by the Incans
  • A close up of one of the graves - one of the higher end ones, with nice stone work that is almost Incan style (but more complex aparently)
  • ..but that same chullpa in the last shot is somewhat…crumbled. Stupid grave robbers.
  • The inside of the chullpa - the remains of whole families were underneath the small round rocks, which in this case were excavated and then returned to look like they would have been originally.
  • Part of the Laguna Umayo, the lake that almost completely surrounds the Sillustani grave site.
  • This aparently was a volcano calerda, and the island in the middle is inhabited by one family that lives in a house right in the greenery on the lower left front of the island
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