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    La Paz est très intéressante comme par exemple, chaque rue à son thème: les jeans ou les sacs de mais ou autres céréales soufflées en vrac. Sinon t'as de tout la rue des dentifrices et brosses à dents, puis des chaussettes et culottes puis de l'alcool puis de la vaisselle, etc. Views[383] Fiesta del Gran Poder. Petite anecdote: lors du changement d'hostal, pas de taxi dû au défilé, du coup on a dû marcher avec les sacs à dos lourds puis traverser la parade un moment donné avec toute la foule, quelle galère!!! Eh pis aussi ça monte raide de chez raide ici sans compter l'altitude, quel sport! Views[409] La Paz se situe au fond d'une vallée, ce qui est flagrant quand on arrive en bus depuis le haut de la vallée; pas mal impressionnant! Views[372] D'un côté du pont c'est écrit bienvenue au Pérou et de l'autre bienvenue en Bolivie! Beaucoup de monde, faut foncer de l'autre côté du pont pour passer la douane bolivienne. Views[413] Deuxième jour, visite de l'île de Taquile. Les habitants de cette île ont des habits et coutumes différentes de ceux de l'autre île, pourtant pas si loin loin l'une de l'autre. Views[371]
     
    Vue depuis la maison où nous avons passés la nuit chez l'habitant. Habits typiques des gens de l'île d'Amantani. Notre guide et les deux allemandes sur le quai. Views[243] Coucher du soleil au point culminant de l'île d'Amantani à environ 4000 m d'altitude. On peut apercevoir les Andes de la Bolivie dans le fond. Views[290] Îles flottantes de Uros sur le Lac Titikaka Views[261] We met some great people so far, including them. Two French backpackers, she is traveling for 3 months and him for 1 year and a half. Hope we'll bump into them somewhere in Peru or Bolivia! Views[339] My bday breakfast on the rooftop of our hotel with view on the Plaza de Armas! :-) so as you can realize, this week we didn't do much in terms of excursions but just relaxed. Views[520]
     
    Very nice colonial architecture. Sometimes you could feel you're in Europe, lots of narrow streets and small plazas. Views[354] Arequipa is called the white city because the walls of the buildings are made of white volcanic stones. This city is surrounded by volcanos. Views[305] Our day volunteering with kids near Cuzco. We'll try to do it at least once in every country we travel to because it's very interesting to experience real life. Views[323] Kurt tried the alpaca steak; alpaca is a kind of lama. I love the fresh exotic fruit juice, almost everyday! Every time to walk back to our hospedaje, we had to go up the steep streets and we were always out of breath; very hard! Ow we went to nice restaurants. Views[263] Really like this city in terms of architecture and food and excursions. It's an international town in the Andes! Views[219]
     
    Just enjoying our time in Cuzco! Yummy! Views[233] Vous pouvez voir l'ascension du Huayna Picchu ou aussi appelé Wayna Picchu que nous avons faite. Pas beaucoup de dénivelé mais pourtant les jambes disent autre chose... Views[786] Aguas Calientes ou village du MP Views[376] Depuis le train Views[360] Fatigués de la grève et tout mais tellement soulagés et contents de prendre le fameux train qui nous emmène au MP! Views[389]
     
    Désolée, les photos ne sont pas en ordre, elle aurait du être en premier celle-ci suivie des autres. Pas facile depuis le iPad en fait ;-) Views[360] Plaza de Armas!!! ;-) Et ruines à Ollantaytambo. Views[222] Marche vers la porte du soleil, longue marche mais pas difficile juste très long genre on en voit jamais le bout. Encore une autre vue du site du MP. Views[287] Petite pause de la fameuse descente avec vue du site du MP Views[266] Descente du Huayna Picchu avec escaliers qui font peur! Je vous dit pas comment j'étais accrochée au mur en descendant. ;-( Views[414]
     
    Lors de l'ascension du Huayna Picchu. La photo où je suis assise est prise tout au sommet. Views[282] Quasi au sommet du Wayna Picchu, superbe vue du site Views[225] Ascension du Huayna Picchu qui a différentes orthographes apparemment Views[177] Sauveuse des animaux, hihi! ;-) Views[264] Le brouillard venait puis repartait mais très rapidement. Views[241]
     
    Plusieurs lamas comme celui-ci sur le site Views[238] Différentes prises de vue du Machu Picchu Views[255] Yeah!!! Machu Picchu!!! :-) Petit rappel: je lève les bras seulement quand ça vaut vraiment le coup!!! Views[255] Other Inca ruins. Oops. Seriously. Can't remember the name. Too many! Views[402] The smallest avocado we've ever seen! So small! Just pop it in your mouth. We ate like 10 of them in one sitting. Views[620]
     
    Guinea pig! Yes, there are butchers who specialize in this. Oh my god. No joke. I couldn't make that up. Views[359] Third stop on same excursion of yarn and salt mines. Moray ruins. Amazing circular terraces used for agriculture. Likes like it was created almost by aliens! Still functional. Inca grew a different vegetable on every level - each level differed by a few degrees thus optimal for different vegetables. Crazy, the Inca domesticated thousands of types of potato, corn and quinoa. They were masters of agricultural and irrigation. Views[391] Views[317] Views[254] Salt mines of Maras! So beautiful. Part of the previous excursion. Wonderful terraces of salt. Used by the Incas. And still used today. Views[210]
     
    More colorful yarn. Views[214] Gorgeous! Blue corn gives this beautiful color. Plus, Peruvians love the blue corn for drinking. No joke! Looks like grape juice ... but tastes like corn juice. No, seriously it's better than it sounds. Haven't convinced AF yet though. Views[270] Quick stop before the salt mines. Beautiful presentation of how they die their yarn. Views[205] Petit dej' dans une boulangerie française, trop bon, miam! Ça fait du bien! Views[237] Next after the temple of gold. Just outside Cuzco. Saqsaywaman. Sounds like sexy woman. Guess what, that's what it means too in Quechua!! No, just joking. Beautiful Inca stone walls. This style is megalithic polygonal. They sanded the stones so they would fit together perfectly like a jigsaw puzzle! Amazing feat of architecture. Seriously, you can't fit a blade of grass between them they're so flush. No mortar. They've stood over 500 years despite frequent earthquakes. Stones were carried from 20km away. Other similar examples of megalithic stones are Stonehenge. Views[366]
     
    Love the sign! So true, Inca walls are everywhere in Cusco. In Cusco here, first excursion to tour Inca ruins. This is the temple of gold. But guess what, no more gold. Plus it's a church now. Hmm. Those Spanish! They tore down most of the Inca buildings. But left Inca walls as the base of many buildings, as here. Plus those Inca stones were so damn good they reused them to build the churches. Basically every time you see a church in Cusco, you know it replaces a very important Inca religious/government building. Views[289] Back to Pisac market for lunch. A 4 hour hike up a mountain makes you hungry. Views[191] More Pisac ruins. Views[199] Right next to the market, Pisac ruins. Well not so right next. About a 2 hour hike up a mountain! But worth it. Reminiscent of Machi Picchu. Why do they always build these Inca cities on the top of a mountain?! Those Inca architects were quite demanding. Sure wasn't the architect hauling stones 2 hours up that mountain. Views[214] Hmm. Yes, AF has a fetish for taking photos of indigenous women from behind. She kind of stalks them. If they see you though they either ask for money or get angry. I can see the photo exhibit now - Anne-Flore Sevrin, Indigenous Women ... from behind. Views[334]
     
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