here we spend three days walkin’/relaxin’.
a very steep and dusty three hour ascent back up.
la cathedral, plaza de armas, in
plaza de armas. nice.
gourmet birthday dinner. very very tasty.
happy birthday jenny!
the peak of chachani looms over the city. in ten hours I’ll be up there.
base camp.
we leave camp at 1am, walking slowly with our headlamps…stopping to watch the sunrise.
on the top at 6075m and feeling lightheaded/dizzy/ nauseous from the altitude.
great views though…
initially only nuns came here from upper class spanish families. in this privileged nunnery each nun and one to four slaves…and would live it up with parties.
llama.
overlooking cuzco.
plaza de armas from above.
iglesia de la compania de jesus.
huh?
a brilliant collection of artifacts at the museo de arte precolombino.
the moches peoples (200bc to 850ad) ceramics being the most impressive artistically and technically.
a local woman weaving the traditional way.
colourful textiles.
masterful inca stonework at qorikancha, the richest temple of the empire, and at one point the walls were lined with gold.
down the sacred valley from
ollantaytambo is the best surviving example of inca city planning with a grid of narrow cobblestone streets.