All right, it will take me some time to type up blog entries from our entire journey, but I
will get there eventually. We just got back here yesterday so I haven't had time to do much.
I have managed, however, to upload the videos we shot (not many or very long).
I'm putting them all in the post for viewing convenience--enjoy!
Our guide, Rosemary, was talking for the
duration of this video . . . but you
can't hear a word because of the wind!
Actually, the wind stole Joe's hat right
as I ended this video. (Sorry I didn't
capture it.)
A look around one of the busier areas
of Machu Picchu. As much chatter as you
hear here, there were areas that were
much louder and others that were virtually
silent. M.P. is amazing!
Just from another, higher area.
Aguas Calientes is the town at the base
of Machu Picchu where 99% of visitors
stay to visit the citadel. We had fun
exploring A.C. in addition to M.P. We
made friends with the two little girls
at the end of this video. (And yes,
they are completely unsupervised like
the vast majority of Peruvian children
that we saw.)
PS: The wooshing noise is the Urubamba
River that runs through the middle of
A.C. That's how it's got its name,
"Hot Springs" in English.
The name says it all. (A room in a
museum at [I believe] Puka Pukara.)
A group of Uros Island Dwellers sings
a song (I believe in their native
Aymara language) thanking us for our visit.
This is on Taquile Island (a natural island,
as opposed to the man-made "floating" Uros
Islands, all of which are in Lake Titicaca).
The folks on Taquile are Quechua; the folks
on the Uros are Aymara. They're pretty
different. Anyway, we picked a great time
to visit Peru because we were there on so
many important days: Independence Day,
Armed Forces Day, and a few indigenous
religious festivals. So, I don't think
you could see this sort of stuff just
any day.
