For Mom, Love Steve

Some Sacred Valley pics. The view on the way back to Cusco was awesome. Didn?t get any photos because of all the water fights.
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The rest of these are all different areas of the Incan site. I liked this place better than MP because it was spread all over a couple different mountains, and the views of the valley were much better. I am sure the food back them was a lot more accessible here. This was the site where a tour took almost five hours which was based on starting on the top and not having to walk up from the city at the base.
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I have some photos of the Carnaval as well but my laptop ate them. I need to see if I can recover them. It locked up halfway while copying the file folder so the last section is there but I can?t open them. Every time I try the computer locks up. I?ll work on it though.

I got there way too early. Being the rainy season, there was always morning fog that had to burn off. Still some cool photos.
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I had about two hours to burn so I did some Llama hunting.
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Damn things can get a bit pissy when you don?t tip them.
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We did about five takes before we got a good one.
This was one of the bad ones. Others were too sexy, too much teeth, too grouchy, too mean.
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Finally, we got one that was just right.
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And then the fog cleared and I got to take a bunch of photos of rocks. A lot of these were actually important locations. I just need to backtrack and start naming them. Maybe later. You could always buy a MP book and look it up for me.
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I need to grab some food before all the restaurants close otherwise I have to eat the two day old avocado sandwich that I threw away in the used toilet paper bin in my hotel room.

Ahhhh. BBQ meat on a stick with a potato on the end. Just can?t beat it. I am trying to increase my intake on food so my standard diet is about five skewers for dinner, a quarter chicken meal for lunch, a mango and avocado sandwiches for snacks. Of course about two litres a day of Fanta as well. Oh well, back to the pics.

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This guy rode the train to AC, took the bus up the hill, and it still might have killed him.
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The hordes have arrived.
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I was impressed with the rock work done by the Incas until I saw this guy make three almost perfectly square rocks in a half an hour using a chisel and a hammer. He did this while his wife and baby made lunch.
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If I have time I might come back and label some of the photos. No promises though.

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