Lima - Congresso
The Congresso building in Lima.
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Lima - Cathedral
La Catedral, Lima. The origin church began construction in 1555, but...
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Lima - Plaza da Armas
Plaza da Armas, Lima.
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Lima - San Francisco
The church and monastery of San Francisco. The crypt contains the...
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Danse Macabre. Ornamental arrangements in the catacombs of Lima's...
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Lima - Miraflores
The Pacific Ocean from Miraflores, Lima.
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Cuzco
The Catedral (1559) and the Iglesia da Triunfo (1536) border the north...
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Cuzco
The Church of Jesus Maria (1733) from the Plaza da Armas, Cuzco.
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Cuzco
A view of the Church of Jesus Maria from the steps of La Catedral.
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Cusco
Cuzco is situated high in the Andes mountains (3326 metres above sea...
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Cuzco
One of the very steep streets of Cuzco.
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Cuzco
One of the first acts of the Spanish Conquistadors was to demolish...
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Cuzco
The church and monastery of San Domingo was built directly over the...
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A view of the terraces of Coricancha, now a park.
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Girls in traditional dress with a baby llama.
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A view of Sacsayhuaman. In 1586, Manco Inca, the puppet king installed by the...
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The enigmatic ceremonial arena of Sacsayhuaman is constructed with some truly...
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Shelly providing some scale to the enormous blocks that make up Sacsaywayman.
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The church at Chinchero is built directly over an Inca construction....
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The courtyard of the church in Chinchero.
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Ladies at Chinchero in their finery.
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The Inca terraces at Chinchero.
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Roadside market.
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Peruvian textiles
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A boy and his llama.
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Countryside outside Cuzco - the Sacred Valley.
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The terraces of Ollantaytambo. In 1536, after his defeat at...
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A view of Ollantaytambo village from the terraces. It is known as the living...
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The remains of an Inca village on the Urumbamba River valley on the way to...
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The incomparible view of Machu Picchu. Macchu Picchu's location is...
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The Temple of the Sun at Machu Picchu. In reality this is a solar...
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Machu Picchu is quite literally built on the crest of a mountain. Inca...
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Machu Picchu.
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The terraces at Machu Picchu - a precipitous drop!
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The ruins of the temple of Viracocha in Raqchi. This pre-Incan stone and mud...
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Market in the village of San Pedro, just beside the ruins of Raqchi.
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Weaving at the San Pedro village market, Raqchi.
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The cold windswept plains of southern Peru, on the road to Puno and Lake...
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A view of Puno from the harbour at Lake Titicaca.
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A floating village of the Uros people. The islands are made from reeds, bound...
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Floating islands.
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A reed boat.
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The Plaza da Armas, Arequipa -t he White City.
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The Monastery of Santa Catalina. This monastery was founded in 1580 for the...
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The monastery of Santa Catalina.
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The monastery of Santa Catalina.
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A stunning view of the River Chili valley with El Misti volcano in the...
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View and llama.
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South America
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