Uncomfortably familiar CIA location in Santiago, Chile Public sculpture Santiago, Chile Lima's new airport, Peru Public xmas decorations

The locality of our Lima hotel - recommended Recommended Lima locality Less secure precinct in Lima Cusco at 3,500m in the Andes

Inca Temple- Church, Museum Inca explanation Extraordinary Inca stonework Cusco vendors

Local Cusco market Vendor stalls at Cusco market So this is a taxi? Modern. clean Peruvian narrow-guage train

Fashion Parade en-route to Macchu Pichu Hotel entrance on platform The town now better known as Macchu Picchu View of Sacred Valley from a local "hill"

Looking down from Macchu Pichu The only elevator the Incas used A non-Inca road As many as twelve fitted sides

A remarkably preserved city out of sight and mind A religious and admininistrative centre A stratified community with graded levels of living Guarded at each end by substantial peaks

The atypical Inca doorway Most of the stone was quarried locally Inca terracing is apparent throughout Peru The terraces were used to create micro-climates

Upper-level accommodation Rock source adjacent to built area Complex beauty