Peru - May 2000
Page One of Four
A free lance entrepreneur took pictures of our group arriving at Cusco,
Airport after a flight from Lima.
He later showed up
at a tourist spot to try to sell the photos he'd taken and made
into postcards. This happened at several locations in
Peru.
The gateway to Machu Picchu is the city of Cusco, a town of about
300,000 population
You go to Machu Picchu from Cusco via train and/or bus. Andes Mountains
in the background
- about 24,000 to 25,000 ft in elevation
View of the countryside between Cusco and the town of Yucay
We stopped to get out of our van for a view of the countryside
and this child showed up trying to sell us souvenirs
Urubamba River Valley on the way to the town of Yucay and the Posada
del Inca Hotel
At a lunch stop, we saw these children collecting water for their mother
Workers assisted by a donkey near the Posada del Inca Hotel in Yucay
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