Flew from LIma to Cusco; we're in the Andes now! It feels so good to be in mountains--I'm just not a city girl, though they have much to offer, of course.
Our guide often stops for interesting things, like these men putting the roof on a new house:
wood, mud, thatch, tiles. The house, as are all I can see here, is made of adobe bricks. I could see them drying in several places, but, of course, the bus was moving, and the photo was a blur. Lots of construction--
Above the Sacred Valley!
Vendors everywhere add intense color.
This valley enabled the Incas to supply their large cities with food. Following is a mountainside with deep, terraces. First they cut the mountain into those level spaces, then built retaining walkks, hauled in topsoil--then they could plant.
This is but one of dozens of fortresses on passes to protect Cusco, the center of the Inca universe.
I'm going to stop now to try to upload this. More later....
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