PERU May 2010

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Lima square with cathedral	Lima square with colonial building	Lima square with town hall
Lima archbishop's palace	Lima archbishop's palace	Lima archbishop's palace
Lima	Lima house of literature	Lima: San Francisco convent and -church
Ballestas islands with many birds	Ballestas islands Peruvian gannets	Ballestas islands Inca terns
Ballestas islands Humboldtpenguins and gannets	Ballestas islands Peruvian pelican	Ballestas islands sea-lions
Nasca in a small aircraft	Nasca, seen from aircraft drawing in the sand: spider	Nasca, humming bird, 96m x 66m, more then 1500 years old
Chauchilla mummies of the Nasca culture	Chauchilla mummie of the Nasca culture	Chauchilla mummie of the Nasca culture
Cahuachi pyramid of the Nasca culture	Estaqueria: wooden poles: possibly solar observatory	Estaqueria
Acari: canyon in desert landscape near the coast	Ocoña river flowing into the sea	Ocoña river Ocoña
near Arequipa: Pichu Pichu and Chachani, 6075 m	Arequipa square with cathedral	Arequipa galleries on the main square
Arequipa Jesuite church La Compañía	Arequipa Santa Catalina convent	Arequipa Santa Catalina convent
Arequipa: San Juan Bautista church from 1750	Arequipa colonial house	Arequipa baroque house 17th century
Puno on Titicaca lake 3822 meters high	Titicaca lake reed marsh	Titicaca lake: floating, inhabited reed islands
Titicaca lake: houses on floating reed island	Titicaca lake: Indians showing the construction of an island	Titicaca lake: Indians imitating a market place
Titicaca lake: Indians selling home made things	Titicaca lake: inside an Indian house	Titicaca lake: reed boats
Titicaca lake island Taquile	Titicaca lake on the island	Titicaca lake the laundry
Sillustani funeral towers of the Colla's	Sillustani unfinished tower to the right	Sillustani Umayo lake
Sillustani: woman with young vicuña (a kind of lama)	Sillustani farm	Sillustani kitchen
Sillustani potatoes and grains	Sillustani children	Sillustani guinea pigs, serve as food!
La Raya: mountain pass highest point	La Raya	La Raya alpaca (a kind of lama)
Raqchi: temple and store houses of the Inca's	Raqchi temple of the Inca's	Raqchi houses
near Cusco sacred valley of Inca's	Cusco capital of the Inca's	Cusco square with cathedral
Cusco El Triunfo church 16th century	Cusco university	Cusco houses with wooden balconies
Cusco wall of Inca palace	Cusco Santo Domingo convent	Cusco: beneath, in front of convent: Inca temple of the sun
Cusco temple interior	Cusco: Inca temples inside the convent	Cusco: temples of the moon and the stars
Sacsayhuamán: remainings of Inca fortress	Sacsayhuamán: Inca fortress /sanctuary 15th century	Qenqo Inca at sanctuary
Tambo Machay holy well	Pisac: agriculture terrasses and Inca houses on top	Pisac Inca city
Ollantaytambo fortress and sanctuary	Ollantaytambo houses and temple	Ollantaytambo houses
Ollantaytambo path on top of the terraces	Ollantaytambo round tower	Ollantaytambo round tower
Piscacucho: below to the right: the train to Machu Picchu	Machu Picchu: Inca city from the 15th century	Machu Picchu: agriculture terraces with lama's
Machu Picchu temple of the sun	Machu Picchu: house with restored straw roof	Machu Picchu: central square and residential area
Machu Picchu: temple with unusal corner stone	Machu Picchu main temple	Machu Picchu: sanctuary of the sun on mountain top
Machu Picchu: hitching post of the sun	Machu Picchu view from the mountain top	Machu Picchu houses in residential area
Machu Picchu viscacha's	Machu Picchu holy rock	Machu Picchu: valley with Urubamba river

© Kees Hiddinga. Copying only with permission.

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