 Taxi colectivo Iñapari - Puerto Maldonado ( 5hrs) |
 Result |
 Talking parrots |
 Rio Madre de Dios, Puerto Maldonado |
 Election fever |
 Presidential elections coming up |
 School boys playing |
 Puerto Maldonado |
 School girls, Puerto Maldonado, Peru |
 Puerto Maldonado |
 Puerto Maldonado |
 Puerto Maldonado |
 Surely one more could fit? |
 Baby orphan parrot |
 My jungle guide Luzmila |
 Boat ride, 3 day trip to Tambopata in Peruvian Amazon basin |
 Lunch |
 Turtle |
 My room in jungle lodge Inotawa (Tambopata Nature Reserve) |
 Huge tree |
 Ahhh, the good life |
 Catamaran |
 Piranha |
 Butterfly eating salt |
 Swimming between the piranhas! |
 Oops, took a wrong turn |
 Termites |
 Jungle Jane |
 Caiman junior |
 Macaws and other birds at clay lick |
 Monkey Pepe |
 Natural swimming pool, Puerto Maldonado, Peru |
 Marco and I |
 Motorbike trip around Puerto Maldonado |
 Tame jaguar at El Jaguar animal refuge, Puerto Maldonado |
 Both of us could do with a cuddle... El Jaguar animal refuge |
 Topi at El Jaguar animal refuge |
 Ride to airport, Puerto Maldonado |
 Puerto Maldonado airport |
 Jungle (Amazon Basin, Peru) |
 Cusco airport, note proximity of residential area |
 Niños Hotel, Cusco, www.ninoshotel.com |
 Jolanda (founder of Niños) and I |
 Alfredo and Piet |
 Lourdes and two other friends of Jolanda´s |
 Presidential elections coming up - how to vote |
 Late lunch, each sub group made a dish |
 Treehouse for Jolanda´s kids |
 One of the childrens´ restaurants of Niños Unidos Peruanos |
 Jolanda |
 (forgot name), Sabine and Jolanda |
 4 hour horseback tour through Huasao mountains |
 Huasao mountains |
 Huasao mountains, Peru |
 Huasao mountains |
 A well deserved sandwich (and the wine was horrible) |
 Niños apartments in Huasao |
 Niños apartments in Huasao |
 Niños apartments in Huasao |
 Lourdes, administrator at Niños Hotels |
 Huasao village |
 Avenida Washington in Huasao |
 Inca Kola and the likes |
 Plaza de Armas, Huasao |
 Quechua fortune teller in Huasao (my future looks bright) |
 Quechua fortune teller |
 Avenida del Sol, Cusco |
 Election fever |
 Panay (Jolanda´s eldest) |
 Oscar and Panay |
 Jolanda and her youngest: Toulouse |
 Jolanda, Toulouse, Wilbert, José, Oscar and Panay |
 Panay, Oscar and Wilbert |
 Lady who works at Huasao |
 Just another internet cafe |
 Election fever: popular candidate Ollanta speaking in Cusco |
 Election fever, Cusco, Peru |
 Election fever: right wing extremist Ollanta speaking in Cusco |
 My room in Niños Hotel, Cusco |
 Market in Pisac, Peru |
 Market in Pisac |
 Market in Pisac |
 Market in Pisac, Peru |
 Market in Pisac |
 Market in Pisac, Peru |
 Pisac |
 Pisac |
 Toulouse, Jolanda and Panay |
 Bus ride Cusco - Andahuaylas (11 hours) |
 Abancay (halfway between Cusco and Andahuaylas) |
 Scary ravines during bus ride Cusco - Andahuaylas |
 Bus ride Cusco - Andahuaylas |
 Andahuaylas |
 Laguna de Pacucha |
 Sondor, ruins from Chanka people, the Inca´s rivals |
 Switzerland in Peru? Sondor |
 Sondor |
 Laguna de Pacucha seen from Sondor, Peru |
 New poncho in the making |
 Kids in Pacucha |
 Plaza de Armas, Andahuaylas |
 Plaza de Armas, Ayacucho |
 Ayacucho |
 Election fever reaching its zenith |
 Election fever reaching its zenith |
 Volleyball at 2700 meters above sea level ! |
 Sand mozaic for Semana Santa, Ayacucho |
 Sand mozaic for Semana Santa |
 School girls who interviewed me about Semana Santa (Holy Week) |
 Semana Santa procession, Ayacucho |
 Semana Santa procession, Ayacucho |
 Semana Santa procession, Ayacucho |
 Semana Santa procession, Ayacucho |
 Semana Santa procession, Ayacucho |
 Breaking the sand mozaics is symbolic |
 Semana Santa procession, Ayacucho |
 A new use for the sand mozaics |
 Señoritas needed (who doesn´t?) |
 Fireworks before another Semana Santa procession, Ayacucho |
 Fireworks before Semana Santa procession, Ayacucho |
 School boys who interviewed me about Semana Santa (middle one was especially curious) |
 Semana Santa procession, Ayacucho |
 Semana Santa procession, Ayacucho, Peru |
 Semana Santa procession, Ayacucho, Peru |
 Semana Santa procession, Ayacucho |
 A ride with two priests to Huancavelica |
 Checking the tyres |
 On the way to Huancavelica (from Santa Inés) |
 Alpacas |
 Lamas and sheep freak out in front of the car |
 The presidential elections, 9 April 2006 |
 Plaza de Armas, Huancavelica (+3690 meters) |
 Fountain in Huancavelica |
 Huancavelica |
 Huancavelica |
 I rescued this boy when his sweater was caught by the barbed wire |
 Huancavelica |
 Went swimming in these thermal mineral waters with healing powers |
 Huancavelica train station |
 Huancavelica train station |
 Huancavelica train station |
 Train tracks Huancavelica |
 Huancavelica train station |
 Huancavelica train station, Peru |
 Huancavelica train station |
 Huancavelica - Huancayo train |
 Huancavelica - Huancayo train |
 Piglets |
 View from the train |
 Huancavelica - Huancayo train |
 View from the train |
 Huancavelica - Huancayo train |
 View from the train |
 Huancavelica - Huancayo train |
 Huancavelica - Huancayo train |
 Pretty crowded |
 One of over 30 tunnels |
 Halfway the soldiers got off and left more room for us |
 View from the train |
 Huancavelica - Huancayo train |
 Mining, along way Huancayo - Lima |
 Mining, along way Huancayo - Lima |
 Huancayo - Lima |
 View on the road from Huancayo to Lima |
 View on the road from Huancayo to Lima |
 View on the road from Huancayo to Lima |
 Marko Antonio (from Lima) and I |
 Park behind San Francisco cathedral, Lima |
 Semana Santa procession from San Francisco cathedral, Lima |
 Semana Santa procession from San Francisco cathedral, Lima |
 Semana Santa procession from San Francisco cathedral, Lima |
 Semana Santa procession from San Francisco cathedral, Lima, Peru |
 Semana Santa procession from San Francisco cathedral, Lima |
 Semana Santa procession from San Francisco cathedral, Lima |
 Semana Santa procession from San Francisco cathedral, Lima, Peru |
 Doves |
 Plaza de Armas (Plaza Mayor), Lima |
 Yummm - hamburgers, Peru |
 Knock knock, who's there? |
 Catholic images (?) |
 Confession during Semana Santa |
 In line for confession, Lima, Peru |
 Technology finds its way into church. Just throw in a coin to light a candle. |
 Ceiling in church |
 No lack of donations, apparently - San Pedro church, Lima |
 During Semana Santa, Lima, Peru |
 Ceiling in church |
 Not only gold but also lots of suffering and blood |
 Lima cemetery |
 Lima cemetery |
 Lima cemetery |
 Lima cemetery |
 Lima cemetery |
 Lima cemetery |
 Lima cemetery |
 Lima cemetery |
 Palm ornaments for Semana Santa |
 Riots when people tried to build illegal food stalls |
 The people won the battle over the food stalls |
 Cuy, or in English: guinea pigs! |
 Cuy (guinea pigs)... :-S |
 Bustling food stalls during Semana Santa |
 Thursday before Easter - "7 churches day" |
 San Francisco cathedral, Lima |
 Food stall during Semana Santa |
 Food stall during Semana Santa |
 Food stalls during Semana Santa, Lima, Peru |
 Plaza de Armas during Semana Santa |
 Piet and his grassy friend |
 Easter bread |
 Girl |
 Jimi Hendrix junior |
 Flight home |
 Seems like the Ollague volcano on Chile / Bolivia border (?) |
 Lake Titicaca |
 Lake Titicaca |