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July 25th 2008
Published: August 21st 2008
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Inca sites in abundance The parts of Peru and Bolivia we visited on our trip are very much dominated by the Andes. We became aware of that when we arrived in Cusco. We became aware of that the hard way. Emma suffered from mild altitude sickness the day we arrived in Cusco and Ake suffered bad from the thin air. Cusco sits at an altitude of 3326 meters and there is a significantly lower air pressu... Read Full Entry



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Ake Dahllof and Emma Holmbro
Ake Och Emma
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We are Emma Holmbro and Ake Dahllof. We live in Stockholm, Sweden. We have travelled more or less regularly since the mid 1990-ies and it seems like the more we travel the more difficult it is to decide where to go next. Not because we are running out of places to visit but because we find more places we want to go to faster than we manage to travel to them. Some of the things from our travel bucket list we have ticked off since we started this blog in 2006 are Angel Falls in Ven... full info
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Pukapukara Pukapukara
Pukapukara
Pukapukara sits on a cliff overlooking the valley below
Sacsayhuaman Sacsayhuaman
Sacsayhuaman
The Inca site Sacsayhuaman used to be a large fortress
Sacsayhuaman Sacsayhuaman
Sacsayhuaman
The Inca site Sacsayhuaman used to be a large fortress
Sacsayhuaman Sacsayhuaman
Sacsayhuaman
The stones used for building these massive walls can weight 100 tons or more
Source of the Amazon riverSource of the Amazon river
Source of the Amazon river
The water from this glacier eventually ends up in the Amazon River
Floating islandFloating island
Floating island
Floating island in Lake Titicaca constructed from of a kind of floating reed
Boat on Lake TiticacaBoat on Lake Titicaca
Boat on Lake Titicaca
Boat on Lake Titicaca constructed from of a kind of floating reed
Boat on Lake TiticacaBoat on Lake Titicaca
Boat on Lake Titicaca
Boat on Lake Titicaca constructed from of a kind of floating reed. A boat similar to this was used by Thor Heyerdahl on his Ra II expedition
Local on floating islandLocal on floating island
Local on floating island
This woman lives on one of the floating islands in Lake Titicaca
YavariYavari
Yavari
This boat was carried from the Pacific to Lake Titicaca
Woman with a spindleWoman with a spindle
Woman with a spindle
Woman with a spindle in Chucuito.
Fertility temple in ChucuitoFertility temple in Chucuito
Fertility temple in Chucuito
This Inca site was used as a fertility temple. In fact young women still today come here to enhance their chances of becoming pregnant
Guinea PigGuinea Pig
Guinea Pig
Roasted guinea pig is a traditional dish in Peru
Market in UrubambaMarket in Urubamba
Market in Urubamba
A fruit market in the town Urubamba
Boy in PukaraBoy in Pukara
Boy in Pukara
Boy in Pukara



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