Photos, photos and more photos...

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You asked for pics, here they are. Remember, I´m not a professional photographer... It takes forever to upload pictures so I picked the highlights. I think you should be able to see them in my photos part of this blog. There are 17 of them, hopefully this works...

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Photos

Plaza de Mayor in Lima
Presidential Palace

Changing of the Guard
At the Presidential Palace. Notice the nice police man with the machine gun? They take this pretty seriously...

Me and the Police...
You never know what you can do until you ask... Just before the pic was taken, the one beside asked if I wanted to put on his helmet. If I weren´t afraid it would be impossible to get off my big head, I would have.

Demonstration
They were very peaceful and entertaining...

Street photo in Cuzco
The street by my guesthouse in San Blas is so narrow, it barely fits one car. I´ve felt the side mirror brush against me when they pass. Crazy...

Parking spot...
for non mechanized transport, ha ha...

Saksaywaman
See what I mean about the size of the stones; simply amazing to see what they were able to build and move.

Machu Picchu
Machu Picchu at sunrise.

Five cute boys...
They were my new best friends before the hike. None of us spoke much during the hike (saving our strength). All were 23 and I think they felt protective of me like they would their moms.... They were funny...

Wayna Picchu
Proof that I´d made it up that hike. See the teeny tiny Machu Picchu behind me? Yup, I was a long way up...

Llama on Machu Picchu
Yes, this was pre-spit but I didn´t like the look in his eyes, so I´d moved to higher ground.

Machu Picchu
It´s hard to convey the size of this place. This pic was taken when I was half way up the ruins, see the size of the itty bitty people?

Food here in Peru
A few of you have asked about the food. Well, it´s been great, no issues but I did have to show you the choclo or corn on the cob. The size of the kernels are the size of my thumb and muy delicioso....

Comments

[karen]

hello from calgary
hey cheryl - really enjoying the blog - and especially seeing the pics - nice to live vicariously through you - soooo glad that you got somebody to take pics with YOU in them - great to see - hope you are having as much fun as it looks like you are having :)