Machupicchu, Mountain, Massive

These are the ruins of Machupicchu, situated on top of a huge mountain. It's amazing to think of how in the world they must have gotten all that stuff up there. It was pretty surreal being up there. Even looking at the pictures now it seems like I didn't actually go. haha but i assure you, i was there.. i even took a pic with myself in it to prove it!

There I am!
Classic Picture of Machupicchu

There's a lizard on that rock if you look closely

We decided to walk down from the mountain back to the town we were staying in. A lot of stairs. My calves were hurting the next day. It was pretty cool being in the middle of the mountains in the middle of the jungle though!! :)

My feet got kind of dirty...

Coming up next: Quito, the capital of Ecuador!

Sacred, Supper, Saxaywoman

On our drive through the Sacred Valley, we made lots of different and very interesting stops. I loved stopping at a llama and alapaca farm. We got to feed them and pet them. Thankfull they didn't spit on us!



My mom's not really sure about this one.. haha

And I'm not sure about this one.. hee hee
This one had dreads. Very nice.

The view of the valley

At one point I had like ten babies surrounding me. I was wondering if they'd nibble at my hands but luckily they didn't!

Mmmm.. guinea pigs on the kitchen floor..

Making adobe bricks for the houses

This is Ollantaytambo-quite the walk to the top but definitely worth it for the view!

If you look closely, you can see my reflection in my mom's sunglasses... haha

Dying the alapaca wool

This site is called Moray and it's really cool. It's all circular. We made the trek to the bottom which was pretty cool.

These were the slightly precarious stairs we had to go down!

Salt mines in the mountains- pretty cool!

Dried lava

One night we had fruit and avocados from the market.. it was pretty funny trying to cut them in our hotel room!
Wild turkeys

Coming up next: Machupicchu in Peru- one of the wonders of the world! Stay tuned!