Category Archives: Peru
People of the Sacred Valley.
There are ladies in traditional garb sitting with their llamas and alpacas on pretty much every corner of Cusco. “Foto, señor?” they call every time they intercept a camera-toting tourist. She, however, doesn’t seem to be one of those. It’s early in … Continue reading
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Tagged Cusco, Inca, Llama, People, Peru, Photography, Portraits, Quechua, Sacred Valley, Urban photography
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To the lost city that never was: walking to Machu Picchu.
On paper, the story was engrossing, the stuff of an Indiana Jones blockbuster or of a Wilbur Smith book. Picture this: a misty morning in the Urubamba valley, deep in the Peruvian Andes. Jagged peaks covered in thick rain forest. … Continue reading
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Tagged Aguascalientes, Americas, Andes, El Pueblo, Hiram Bingham, Inca, Latin America, Machu Picchu, Pachacuti, Peru, Quechua, Rain forest, Sapa Inca, South America, Vilcabamba
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Ultimately, the soulless won.
Music echoes from Plaza de Armas, the martial tones of a brass band blended with the cacophony of a cumbia dance. Irreverent, the noise penetrates into the cathedral, bouncing along the whitewashed arcs of the vault. Whitewashed, as was the … Continue reading
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Tagged Alpaca, Andes, Bishop, Cusco, Cuy, Cuzco, Inca, Inca Roca, Jesus, Mary, Pachacuti, Pachamama, Peru, Plaza de Armas, Quirichanka, Saksaywaman, Vicente de Valverde, Wayna Capac
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Surfin’ LI.M.A.
If everybody had an ocean Across LI.M.A. Then everybody’d be surfin’ Like Miraf… Nah, it doesn’t rhyme. Beach boys analogies aside, Miraflores was a surprise. It was the tail end of our permanence in Peru and Miraflores provided a welcome … Continue reading
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Tagged Beach Boys, Cono Sur, LATAM, Latin America, Lima, Miraflores, Ocean, Pacific, Paragliding, Peru, Surfin, Surfing
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