Phil & I in front of the Lima cathedral
(Plaza de Armas)
La Posada del Parque, our hotel in Lima
The mountains (and clouds) around Huaraz
In a “colectivo” with local campesinos,
on our way to a hike around Huaraz
Phil and our guide Henri in the back.
Inside a pre-Inca burial chamber
Good-looking local family
Burros are “beasts of burden”
Phil amidst the crew taking a break from working
on the trail (workers are mostly women).
At 4450m by Lake Chirup: our guides Tommy
and Henry, our young Swedish friend Cecilia and Phil
Huaraz, the locals are meeting
In front of another pre-Inca funerary building
Ducklings at the local market in Huaraz
Earrings made to order
Pre-Inca mummy in the Huaraz
Museum
Pre-Inca warrior with trophy heads
on his belt
Huaraz airport
Peaks of 6,000m and higher
Lima fashion
Crypt in the Lima cathedral
Dinner at restaurant on the pier of
Miraflores (outside Lima); Phil and daughter
Sarah
Phil and Sarah in front of the Cajamarca
cathedral (Northern Peru)
Inca baths (Cajamarca)
Otuzco: pre-Inca graves
Mud slide on our way to Leymebamba
Ditto
Boy with his burro and rooster
“Falling rock;” Phil and our driver lend a hand.
Obstacle course
Another mud slide (derrumbe)
Chachapoyas culture at the Leymebamba
Museum (funded by Austria)
Chachapoya mummies
Mud slide on our return trip to
Cajamarca
Atahualpa’s (Inca emperor) prison in Cajamarca
Ditto
Entrance to Atahualpa’s room where he was kept
until the ransom (a roomful of gold and silver)
was paid. (The Spanish killed him anyway in
1533) http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Atahualpa
View of Cajamarca from Atahualpa’s seat
(Silla de Inca)
Sharks at the local market
Phil testing papayas
