Peru: The Inca Trail & the Amazon 2003

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Peru: The Inca Trail & the Amazon 2003

Here are a few images of our May 2003 trip. The main purpose of our trip was to attend the spectacular Inti Raymi & Corpus Christi Festivals & to hike parts of the Inca Trail and explore Machu Pichu. We did all this - and more - like rafting down the Urubamba River, hiking to the top of Huayna Pichu, listening to the best music of the Andes in , eating "cui" with the locals, visiting schools, being guests in Peruvian homes, staying in various lodges on the banks of the great Amazon River, hiking through the Amazon Rainforest, fishing (and catching!) Piranha in the Amazon, seeing the Pink Dolphins of the Amazon, birding, - those (and more!) were the highlights. What an amazing adventure!
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Date(s): May 2003. Album by Jana Shober. Photos by Jana E. Shober. 1 - 52 of 52 Total.

1 Cusco - archeological museum - exquisite!	2 Lima	3 Lima	4 Cusco - Festival of Corpus Cristi
5	6	7	8 Saqsayhuaman
9	10	11	12 At Pisac ruins
13 At Pisac market	14	15 Rafting down the Urubamba River in the Sacred Valley	16
17 We distributed school supplies in the village of Wilok	18	19	20
21	22	23 Ollantaytambo	24
25	26	27	28
29 the top of Huayna Pichu	30 The weavers village of Chinchero	31	32
33 At Tambomachay ruins	34 Then on to Iquitos - our gateway town for the Amazon	35 We spent several days in lodges along the mighty Amazon River	36 Here is one of the lodges - the wildlife around the lodge was very tame - birds flew in regularly
37 We stopped at a Yagua Village where a few of the elders showed off their skills with poison arrows	38 Back at our lodge, we met a few of the "resident" creatures. Though they were not fenced in and could roam completely freely - they were tame.	39	40 I always wanted to see these growing in the wild Amazon - I got my wish!
41 Wild ginger growing in the Amazon Rainforest	42 John went fishing and quickly caught 2 of the 3 species of Pirranha that inhabit the Amazon River	43 We had cook prepare them and enjoyed them for dinner	44 We went out at night, with flashlights, looking for nocturnal insects and spiders (here Tarantulas)
45 Many of the insects were slow moving	46	47 Here we walked (on the world's highest & longest) canopy walkway - high in the treetops of the Amazonian rainforest	48
49 Word got out that I was interested in seeing animals of all kinds and soon people were pointing out & bringing me all sorts of creatures from the forest.	50	51	52

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Loved reading about your adventures in particular Peru and Amazon. Photos are amazing. We did Guatemala and Honduras too with Caravan. It was fabulous. Could you please recommend the tour Company used by you on your trip to Peru? This would be really helpful as there are so many out there. Thanks in advance for your help.
- Diane Nisbet, Tue, 24 Mar 2009 2:15PM

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