Peru Sept 2002 Photos
Coricancha. The Inca temple in Cuzco destroyed by the Spanish and replaced with a monastorySacsayhuaman just outside Cuzco. Believed to be an Inca temple but used as a fort by the Inca trying to remove the Spanish from Cuzco
View of Cuzco, the old Inca capital, from Sacsayhuaman A little warm up hike before the main thing.
The start is somewhere down there. And we're off. Around Km81. The guide is Narciso
I so love shakey bridges! Day 1 was mainly like this.
Except this bit. The view from the first uphill bit.
Starting to get a bit more up. Of course we had terrible weather for the whole trip.
Up through the first cloud forest. Crap picture but the view was great
From just over the first pass to just below the second. The orange thing is the lunch tent. These porters can shift! Just the sort of thing for heights!
Some of the views were incredible Our first view of Machu Picchu
The Urubamba River What a lunch spot. This alone made the trip worthwhile.
Nobody told us about these! I'll check my sleeping bag next time. The wasp has killed the spider and is going to lay it's eggs inside the spider. I don't remember where this was but it shows why the cloud forest exists.
And we finally get there Who needs roads! This is a main street.