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2004 / Peru

Drawing a line in the sand

Wednesday, September 15 2004

Been a while... seen quite a few things since half dying in Copacabana. Lake Titicaca's floating islands, Cusco capital of the Inca empire, the world famous Macchu Picchu, the huge geoglyphs (a word pretty much made for one area, meaning big-ass drawings on the ground several hundred metres long) at Nazca, and the...  read more

 

I am very proud of this shot; the light inside the hut was very dark, whereas the light coming through the window was very bright. After a bit of fiddling I managed to take this - the view a resident of Macchu Piccu would get when they wake up in the morning...
Macchu Picchu View
 
The group of us waaaay early in the morning. Empty. Magic.
Macchu Picchu
 
Had a kickass time sandbuggying and sandboarding with the nutty brits and one yank. Pity I probably lost my palm pilot in the sand somewhere!
Sandbuggying
 
Interesting to students of history, this is the building that Francisco Pizarro held Emperor Atahuallpa of the Inca in while the empire was scoured for all of the gold and silver in the land.
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<br/><br/>This is in Cajamarca.
Atahuallpa's Prison
 
OK, the icon looks like a very grey hummingbird stuck in a grey snowstorm. Click on it - this is one of the Nazca lines - an image drawn on the desert floor several hundred metres long. The photo was taken from a pitching, rolling cessna.
Hummingbird
 
You just have to do it.
Macchu Picchu thumbs up
 
Mel doing what she does best
 
I like it, anyway
Nice river shot
 

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