Young girls herding sheep and cattle. 

Three Peruvian chicas. 

Yeahm 

The ruins of Tambo Machay. The water system is still functioning! 

At the ruins of Q'engo, this was part of a ritual where a priest would pour llama blood, and if it ran to the right branch near the bottom, it would be a good harvest year, if it went left crops would not do well. 

Cristo Blanco watching over Cusco. 

Spinning yarn. 

I bought some bracelets from these ladies, and they showed me how to spin alpaca yarn. 

Sacsaywaman again. 

Water collection system (if I remember right) at Sacsaywaman ruins. 

Above Cusco. 

They used amazingly exact stonework to build the walls, without mortar! 

I climbed to the Sacsaywaman ruins above Cusco. 

Women and llama. I bought a belt from them in exchange for the picture. 

Cusco's Plaza de Armas 

In Cusco I met up with some of Jan's Norwegian friends who were traveling around Peru and Chile. 

Peruvian woman selling goods at a bus stop. 

Herd of Alpacas, a cousin of the llama famous for its amazingly soft wool. 

These mud houses with thatched roofs lined the road on the way to Cusco. 

I stopped at Puno, located on Lake Titicaca, for a couple hours on my way to Cusco and Machu Piccu.  

Olive trees outside Arica. 

This is a giant olive oil press, that was used for over a hundred years. 

I stopped by a museum outside Arica, that is home to some of the oldest mummies in the world, one from 5050 BC! They were preserved by the extremely arid climate. The mummies were made by completely dismembering the body and reassembling it with all but the bones and skin replaced by clay, reeds, and various stuffing materials.  

Sunset over Arica. 

After flying back to Santiago, I decided to try to get to Machu Piccu. So I hopped on a 28 hour bus up to Aarica, at the very top of Chile. There I spent the night at a great hostel, and enjoyed some beach time.