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Saturday, October 23, 2010

Cusco's Plaza de Armas by night


The inevitable spot of rain


The long climb to the top of Machu Picchu where the perfect sun dial is.


Machu Picchu & Aldo's happy


Aguas Caliente main plaza


A view from the train window as we go to Machu Picchu


Mud Brick Houses knocked over in the floods of January 2010-some rebuilt, others still knocked over


A catholic church built on Inca ruins at Chinchero


Chinchero girls dying the al paca wool


Ollantaytambo Inca baths


Ollaytamba Inca Ruins with Canadians from Winnipeg


Ollantaymambo town and Inca Food Storage Units on the mountain-side


Aldo enjoying local music at Urubamba


Leaving Cusco and entering the Sacred Valley


World Vision early childhood project where mums are taught how to help their children's development and are given space and a few resources to do it.


Mud bricks are made for buidling new rooms (eg toilet)


"Campesinos" form associations to sell cuys at a better price


Showing off the newly build bathroom


World Vision project in Peru: This lady has built a separate room for the cuys so her kitchen is hygienic




Cuys being cultivated as the local specialty for dinner


The Pruvian hairless dog-the original "hot" dog as you can feel the heat even before you touch


Visiting pre-Inca ruins at Miraflores with Aldo's US/Argentinian colleague, Karin.


The Inca ruins south of Lima overlook the beach


Friday, October 22, 2010

The Beach south of Miraflores


The Inca's Virgin Grooming Centre to sacrifice them to Gods or for Inca Marriages


Inca Ruins next to a Lima Flavella


A small eco park south of Lima


Miraflores beachside


Dancing in the main square of Lima


Police presence everywhere in the Centre of Lima


Quaint balconies embedded in beautiful architecture in Lima


Lima's Cathedral with historic archeological sites in the underground passages


Lima's Central Plaza


Luis's trainees take us out to the Miraflores Playa


Sharing lunch with Joe Antonio Director of the Centro de Pareja y Familia and Karin Schlanger, Argentinian from US taking a seminar at the Centro


Directors of the Centro de Pareja y Familia: Luis Elias Licera & Elena Franco


Family sculpting at Aldo's workshop


Peru-Miraflores: Aldo's workshop at the Centro de Pareja y Familia