Perú

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making zapping today searching about carnival videos -well, I have to say something more to my students beyond my child memories! - I found one that made tongue in cheek critics about the way the peruvians "mimic" in a bad taste the "original" bolivian carnival, it made me smile... (I lost the link at the moment, if I found it again, I´ll post it)

but it related somehow what I felt in Peru after staying in Bolivia last year... I felt a tourist and a local at the same time in Perú and a complete outsider and an avid meaning wanderer in Bolivia (with all its potencial!). And I have to say that I enjoyed both!!!!!. A thing that I didn´t imagened first: what it moved me most in Perú was nature and the way old ruins cop with them... I also had a thrill-like feeling entering Cusco cathedral and seeing for example the Valverde cross in a side altar and big paintings of Judas as an aborigen... that feeling -oddly-I didn´t have in Bolivia.

Some Perú´s photos of january 2010 (I guess I took more than a lot...! )

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Enjoy them!!!!!!!

[Doreen Peri]

wonderful!!! thank you for the tour! Beautiful photos!

(and I need to make some banners for the site from these! they'll be terrific! I hope that's OK w/you)

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good you liked the tour, doreen!!!!! and of course, you can do banners or whatever you want with the photos, gracias for seeing with me!

[mtmynd]

i'm late in seeing your photo-journey, 'V'... very impressive!!

How did you get to Machu Picchu... walk or is there a faster way to get to the top?

The picture where a person is standing very close to the edge of what seems like a very steep terrace made me catch my breath... so far down!

What type to soup was that in the first part of the foto-tour?

Gracias! Me gusta!!

[Doreen Peri]

boy, I sure do need to get back to banner making... these are wonderful photos!

I'd love to go Peru! Thanks for taking me there through your photos.

[Arcadia]

i'm late in seeing your photo-journey, 'V'... very impressive!!

don´t worry Cecil!, I was later than you posting them...!

How did you get to Machu Picchu... walk or is there a faster way to get to the top?

get there only walking? no way!, my cardiologist wouldn´t advice it!!!!! you can go by train, there´s a small camino del Inca´s trayecto you can do walking though, but that day the rain was very heavy to appeal me to do it, so I went in a van. You have the opportunity to walk inside the ruins (that are very big) for hours later.


The picture where a person is standing very close to the edge of what seems like a very steep terrace made me catch my breath... so far down!

Staying there I got the feeling that that place was already tired about tourists, it was a strong energy but not an angry one. Minutes before that click, I saw a spanish girl almost about falling down from one of the tallest parts of the ruins... weird & scary... this one had an umbrella at least...!

What type to soup was that in the first part of the foto-tour?

quinoa soup, they cook quinoa with multiple vegetales & spices, it´s delicious!!

I'd love to go Peru! Thanks for taking me there through your photos. I love to travel with other´s photos too, so I´m happy you enjoyed the viaje Doreen!!!!!

(the Bolivia´s Tiahuanaco & Arica are somewhere, I´ll post them later! )

[jimboloco]

like the contrast between the rustic humble house
and the night city before it

i remember a house like that on the Mekong River in Vietnam
the roof was caved in
a boat, half sunk, was tied to the bank
a canal stretched into the distance
all blue gray dead rice paddies
wilted fruit trees
nothing else

don't tell your kids

that one in peru is humble
there is love inside
and god visits once a day

[Arcadia]

ah... glowing Cusco under the rain!
after the spaniards it looks like a Toscana´s city
(if you see it from the heights in a sunny day)
& the humble house was near the border
(beautiful that you could see the mistery
around & inside it)
far away from the tiger
& the world´s navel

[Kailashana]

Thanks for sharing, my x is from Perú, born in Lima. I've always wanted to go to Machu Picchu; the closest I've come is by osmosis. When I hear the flute music from the Andes, I am home.

~A