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February 17th 2011

Published: February 17th 2011

Well helloooooooooooooooooo everybody! :D So here's the next big blog. I'm guessing that not everyone knows this, so I'll give you a quick heads-up: a while ago an opportunity came up to go to Peru with my host family on vacation! Not only that, but I eventually got them to make Machu Picchu a part of the itinerary--Whoo!!! :D I was writing a detailed account of the trip to my uncle, and then par... Read Full Entry

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Heartwrench

One of the children who begged for food when the train stopped...very sad.

Like Rabbits

A picture inside the warren that was the market in Aguas Calientes.

Nightlife

Photo of Aguas Calientes at night.

You have GOT to be kidding me.

Line to enter Machu Picchu at 6:00 AM. In the rain.

Represent!

Me in my Carleton t-shirt on the way up to Waynapicchu.

Teensy Bit Steep

Whatever you do, do NOT trip, slip, or otherwise hand complete control of your downward movent over to gravity.

Success!

I made it! Yay! Whoohoo! Hooray! Wheeeeee! Aha! Yes! Excellent! Awesome! Whoopee! Huzzah! Ahoo-ahoo-ahoo (from the movie 300)!! Yahoo! Hallelujah! Eureka! Hoo-rah!

Tadaa!

THIS, my friends, is what we call a "precipice." Notice the river far, far below me...

Finally

The view we had travelled all this way to see.

Rainforest Vally

Where we were. Notice the train next to the river, and the sheer steepness of the moutains. Absolutely unreal.

Enormous Milipede

This would be MOST unpleasant to tred upon.

The Incas Knew What They Were Doing

I mean, come on! Look at that view!

Machu Picchu

One of the new 7 wonders of the world

WHOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!

Yes, I was THAT excited to be there! ^)^

Ancient Irrigation

A system of gutters put in place by the Incan empire still works in Machu Picchu

Striated

The striated mountains I wrote about. Really neat, huh?

Home, Home On The Range

Where the llamas and alpaca play, where seldome is heard, an American word, and the houses are made of bricked clay.

The Walk

A Peruvian woman walking across the fields from her house to the highway to catch a bus.

Scale

The scene I mentioined. The largest of those stones jutting out of the ground are about seventy feet high, and the hill keeps rising out into the distance for miles...

Little Home On A Big Prarie

Vastness.

Alti--what?

The Altiplano Winter. Picture taken with my host brother's camera. Though the picture doesn't have a very good wide angle lens (you camera geeks know what I mean :P) you can sort of see how vast the distances were here--the valley you see was scores of miles wide. Maybe more. I couldn't actually tell, it was so big.

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