November 2019
Our view of Cusco Basilica doors taditional dance competition on Plaza del Armas Qorikancha inside the Inglesia De Santo Domingo Striking lines of symetry The streets of San Blas neighborhood colorful street vendors San Pedro fruit vendors San Pedro tailor stall Local cheese Spanish and Inca walls in Cusco Sacsayhuaman lightning bolt shaped wall The masonry is impressive can you imagin moving and carving these? masonry on a non-human scale the historical site lawn mowing crew drinking like the locals The fertile Sacred Valley In the Pisac sun temple high above the valley floor Pisac archeological site Hiking down to the town of Pisac a picture worth every sol in pisac A doorway at the Zurite home-stay in the courtyard of our Zurite Homestay our gracious hostess dishing up the adobe stove quinoa stew and corn Zurite streets tilling the soil striking up a good harvest rhythm not office work for sure choclo and farm cheese grazing ancient terraces temple to the moon at Quillamarka misty pastoral morning Quillamarka – niches with “idols” Quillamarka waterwways The Hummingbird Terrace Moray terraces for agricultural learning built to test best growing conditions for crops a beautiful laboratory the ancient salt mines of Maras Machu Picchu gaurdian Sacred cave below the sun temple A beautiful day at Machu Picchu The Condor, the Jaguar and the Serpent the Incan streets of Olantaytambo See those stones way at the top? the massive hewn stones of the temple at Olantaytambo The granary