Today’s images are random snaps over time of scenes from Peru. They are meant for your enjoyment. However if any are of any particular interest send me a commentand I will share a full size copy of that photo with you. Enjoy.
A photo of a small farm/chacra +/- 11,500 feet in the Andes close to our camp near Huambo Peru circa 1978La Veronica partway between Machu Picchu and Cusco. Altitude 19,226 feet. Called by the Quechua name Wakay Willka or Sacred Tears. This photo was taken on the way back from Machu Picchu in 2004.A look from an old ruins near Huambo in 1978. We climbed this one Saturday to see the ruins of an old Quechua village. Our work camp is in the background. top centre beside our airstrip. Altitude about 12,000 feet for this photoA picture in 1978 of the Colca Valley. The river shown is the Colca River and was the one that we diverted onto the desert at a place called Majes. At this point we were on an outlook at Cabanaconde or Where the Condors Soar, looking south into the valley. You can see the terracing along the sides of the canyon going all the way down to the river. Deysi’s hometown Arequipa, today about 2,000,000 people. The volcano in the background is called Misti and has an elevation of about 18,000 feet. The family home is just outside of the range of this photo on the middle right about half a block from that building shown in the photo.This takenduring a visit home in 2007A milk delivery in a typical Andean Village. This one in Pampacolca, the birthplace of Deysi’s father 100 plus years ago. We visited here looking for family roots. Sure enough there were still some relatives living in the area. Photo taken in 2015 during visit to ancestral home town.Our favourite beach. This at Mollendo about 80 km west of Arequipa, Peru across the Atacama Desert. We started visiting this little beach in 1978 and it remains unchanged even to our last visit there in recent years. Picture from 1979.
Love all the photos, its hard to choose which is my favourite
Mount Veronica brings lot of memories, you can see it from the train on the way to MachuPichu
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Deysi
Love all the photos, its hard to choose which is my favourite
Mount Veronica brings lot of memories, you can see it from the train on the way to MachuPichu
Deysi
The beach in Mollendo is call Catarindo
Mi favorita!
Deysi
love the photo with volcano El Misti!
Ange
Beautiful pics! What years were they taken??
Jered
Beautiful
jeheald
Ang I have updated the photos with the year they were taken. I will go thru the other posts also. Thanks for the heads up!
Jered
Could you share La Veronica with me?