incan stone work

If you haven´t seen Incan stone work before, you can´t really understand the beauty of their work. These stones are massive and they cut them down to the milimeter and make each stone fit perfectly. They did this all by hand. This picture is just a small scale of what they can do. It was taken at Saqusaywoman.

largest rodent in the world

This is a capabera. It is quite ugly, therefore the caiman has chosen to eat this creature. We think it may be pretty stupid too, but then what rodent isn´t?

feeding the tamarin monkies

We got to see a family of tamarins that came up close enough to us to get fed. We got a few more pictures of these guys again the following day when we ran into them on another trail.

Tambopata Nature preserve

We got to see an awesome sunset over the Madre de Dios river in the jungle.

machu picchu

We have a million pictures and not sure if this is the money shot yet. We will post the shot we think is the best when we get back to the states.

to machu picchu

Sorry for the arrangement here. Starting from the right to the left. We crossed a suspension bridge that was a little nerve racking since it had some rotten boards and loose planks. We also saw an amazing waterfall that the picture doesn´t do justice. And finally we arrived in Auga Caliente which is the town at the base of Machu Picchu. The total trek was 106 km in 4 days and then another 6 km up to MP the next day at 430 am. We were a little tired at the end of the day. The people in the left picture are: Micah, Alex (germany) Caroline (canada) Vanessa (us, but lives in London) Loni (us, school in colorado) Markus (same as Loni) and Owen (london, england). Not pictured are Becky, Luc (Caroline´s brother) and Adrian (chicago, us).

Salkantay

Hey Alex, you put a sun spot in the lower right corner! I guess that is what photoshop is for, huh? We hiked over a pass of 4650 meters (15,200 ft.) along the Salkantay route to Machu Picchu and had Salkantay mountain as a view for many hours. It stands at 6284 meters or over 20,000 ft. apparently, according to our guide, no one has tried climbing it since the 1930´s when a team of Japanese climbers all died on it. We haven´t verified this yet, but the mountain does look very intimidating since it is all loose glacier ice.

cuzco

I have a terrible connection so will not be able to post many pictures, however, here is Cuzco at night. We spent a total of 5 nights in Cuzco, and feel that we know this town pretty well, we are also tired of it and glad to be on to a new place.