Wednesday, 10 September 2008
Two Margarets
Margaret tried out some of the local clothes at the floating village. There seems to be a problem with leg length.
Monday, 8 September 2008
Inca Pride
No, Peru is not the gay capital of Sth America. The rainbow flag is the Inca flag.
It goes to some people's heads.
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Sunday morning parade.
A Sunday morning parade. Lots of school kids.
Some more fancifully dressed.
Some who wondered if their shoes were ok.
And some who took it very seriously.
And others who wished it hadn't happened at all.
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Sunday, 7 September 2008
In train entertainment
This guy did some sort of story telling show on the train back from Machu Pichu. I couldn't understand the story but it was colourful to watch.
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Close up
This fellow was on the edge of the path to the train.
(Guess who is enjoying having a new camera with good telephoto abilities. Had you noticed an increase in 'character' shots?)
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Nope.
This rock is at Machu Pichu but is not an Inca stonemason's work. Modern day scientists tried to see if wooden wedges would split the rocks but failed. Largely because the mountain is too wet and all the wood is already swollen so wont expand.
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Machu Picchu
Machu Pichu is everything you have been told it is. We were there this morning (5:30am bus!) and we were in the clouds for some time before they started to lift.
Rocks
Whatever else you may think of the Incas, you can't but admire their stonemasonery.
Near enough was not good enough.
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