The faces of the Campo

These kids live so far out of the city, I am surprised we came across them. Its hard to say if any of them will ever get to go to school, at least have a proper education. The last picture is of a soccer field if you can make it out the wooden goals ore thin branches. We guess that the small building is a school house, not big, and definitly not with the best teachers, these kids will grow up working as hard as thier parents, and they will start at such a young age. These are the kids we want to steal. You cant help but want for them.

Hardest workers

On an afternoon stroll in the hillside, really high up into the hillside, we have been able to come across people like these, who work extremly hard, pioneer style, with their ploughs and hearding skills. Trust me when i say this woman is on a very, very long walk with her cows.

Cumbe Mayo part 2

The other entry just didnt show our experience there, so here is more of the locals and the rock formations and the Incan channel. There is also one of the Charming Chandler exiting from a very scary tunnel we had to squeeze through on our trek of cumbe mayo, ok we didnt have to, but we did and i was stuck in the front with no way of going back and it was dark, and i am scared of the dark, but luckily through the slimey walls we turned a dark corner to reveal light, it was a short experience but im glad i did it.

some ancient writings or drawings, hard to photograph

Sacsayhuman

Its a Quechua word, pronounced just like "sexy woman" and just about every tour guide will joke about that. When we first arrived in cusco we were taken on severl tours of the ruins around that city, this being one of them was some sort of fortress to the incas, and an absolute magnificent sight, you can really see how the constructed walls back then with out any mortar. cut exactly to fit tight against each other. We onlt could see the big statue of Jesus from afar, we never got close enough for a good picture. It was on another hill quite a ways a way, huge.

Granja Porcon

This is a vacuña. they are an endangered speicies after lots of hunting for their meat and especially fur.

This entry is long over due. In October we took a trip with the Pacha family to Porcon. It a little cooperative town way up (more) in the mountains, down lots of muddy deserted roads. What we found there was basically...a zoo. and a very sand one at that. Animals in tiny cages fed by bread, cookies, or whatever else the tourist threw at them, along with there meals of raw meat. There were lots and lots of birds, most id never seen, nad half that looked as if they´d come out of the 80´s punk rock era. Also in porcon is where we saw our first and only llamas so far here. and i even kissed one, he liked me, they spit you know, but not on me. the camposina woman you see above in dressed in a more traditional outfit with the big hats they wear here.

One of my personal favorite were the performing bears. I actually have a video of these bears standing and walking and catching bread in their mouths, thrown by the people visiting the zoo. it was quite a show. And lets not forget about those long neck birds who acted so hungry they´d bite your hand off if you got close enough...


Below is a small collection of what we saw that day. a monkey eating a cookie, a penguin...not really but it looks like one, there´s the rabbit/squirrel animal big and fat with a long tail. another animal we had not seen was as curious of as as we were him, the had tails like a raccoon. then theres the punkrock bird i mentioned, and another monkey, carry its baby.

there was a bit more than just animals, but they truly were the main attraction, not many of the people who live in porcon were out and about that day, so we enjoyed the animals.