Saturday, August 9, 2008

Photos V - back from Machu Picchu

Today I came back to Cusco from my 4 day excursion to the Sacred Valley and Machu Picchu. It was just great !!! I will follow up with all the details tomorrow. Before any accidents happen to my photos I preferred uploading them immediately...

here they are.. as an exceptional appetizer, you will find four of the pictures within this post...

http://picasaweb.google.com/muellju/Peru6?authkey=FJMEAn8aSOg

you will certainly get tired of the repetitions of Machu Picchu, but also from the site of Moray (circular agricultural terraces) and from the salinas of Maras... but I wanted to be ultra-sure to have some good shots from these sites as they were incredibly beautiful.

The photos include a whole series of people (thanks for the suggestion, Jan..!! ;-) ) which I took while sitting on the main square of Ollantaytambo, also one of the main sites of the Sacred Valley, where I stayed a night (I mean in the village and not on the site..) ..

Given the amazing biodiversity, I also tried to take quite some flowers / plants as I was surprised how many different flowers I could see along my way and especially on the site of Machu Picchu. After Brazil and Congo, Peru is the third country in the world as regards biodiversity and is therefore in the category of "ultradiverse" countries.



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