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