Sheperdess and her flock, Peru
A local lady tends to her flock through the valleys of the Cordillera Negra in Central Peru.
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A local lady tends to her flock through the valleys of the Cordillera Negra in Central Peru.
October 22, 2009
The Black Range, so named as it usually escapes the snow that falls on the higher ranges. But beautiful in its own way. Central Peru.
October 22, 2009
An old lady rugged up against the cold in the town of Puno on the shores of Lake Titicaca, Peru.
October 22, 2009
These strange structures found in southern Peru are called chullpas and belong to the nobility of a pre-Incan people.
October 19, 2009
Altitude sickness. Biting winds. At least the views were nice.
October 19, 2009
She was waiting for the bus by the side of the road. Unfortunately, Peru being heavily reliant on overseas tourism as it is, many people often ask for money in exchange for a photo. Sometimes I agree, often I don’t.
October 19, 2009
The Inca settlement of Ollantaymbo was a focal point of Inca resistance during the Spanish conquest of Peru. The adjacent town of the same name is one of the most intact Inca towns still in existence, with houses, streets and drainage systems almost entirely unchanged from the time of the Incas, some five hundred years… [Read more…]
October 18, 2009
Peruvian children in the Andes all seem to suffer from sunburn and wind-chapped cheeks.
October 18, 2009
The immense yet intricate masonry of the Inca sacred site Sacsayhuaman, on the outskirts of Cuzco, Peru. The unfinished look to the tops of the walls show where the Spaniards took stone to build their own religious structures in the newly conquered Inca capital of Cuzco.
October 18, 2009
October 18, 2009
The ornate facade illustrates the so-called Baroque Mestizo style of church architecture found in the Peruvian Andes.
October 17, 2009
Part of the 30,000-mile highway that links the mainland nations of the Americas. The coastal section in central Peru passes through some spectacular scenery.
October 17, 2009
Nuns still live and pray within its brightly coloured walls. Arequipa, Peru.
October 17, 2009
October 17, 2009
October 22, 2009
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