WARNING: super long post about PERU!
Interesting to learn about making the wool, what leaves and roots mixed with water,
or oils makes them a dye to make the yarn....
The Alpaca, Llamas, and Vicuñas were a great big hit with Boo!
This was in Cusco at Saxywama ... They had no WHEEL, so how did they
move these HUGE rocks into place! We consumed a load of info from our fabulous guide, Rosa...
Sliding down natural lava rock for fun...
Viva El PERU!
The old part of LIMA, we visited the Iglesia de San Francisco church with catacombs
The buildings around the palace where all yellow... Quite lovely...
I took 1,165 pictures... it is hard to narrow them all down and show you the best bits...
The best parts of the trip?
Besides being stuck at Machu Piccu do to the mudslide?
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This is the sunset at Machu Piccu at the Sun dial where we stumbled upon Two archaeologists who
have been coming here for ten years on the Ides of March, otherwise known as the Equinox,
just to prove a theory about the sundial
At exactly 5pm, we watched as the sunset, hit the sundial and and lined up perfectly with
two cross sections of stones... the archaeologists were jumping up and down,
and shouting, and we all stood in awe to watch the sunset over the mountains....
This is a shot of the two intersecting shadows they were all excited about.... ten years to get this photo
and there we were seeing and setting our watches to the Equinox, at the sundial of Machu Piccu.
How cool is that?
The two men and a guide all smiles ear to ear...
the other really great thing?
getting to be strictly VISUAL for one whole week with my camera... LOOK!
a green patchwork quilt....
We did get a train out the next day... but even more surprising was when we went for our
train (before we knew that there wasn't going to be a train) we ran into FRIENDS FROM NYC
that we had no idea were also in Peru, at the train station...stranded with us...
This old world ain't so big after all.....
sigh.
life is good.
