Stonework at Sacsayhuaman. I can't imagine the technology that they used in carving these large stones for these shapes.
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Archelogical workers on the ruins at Sacsayhuaman
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Sacsayhuaman stonework
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Carvings in another Inca ruin.
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Elizabeth and llama carving
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Driving to the Urubamba Valley. The hills were not wasted by the farmers.
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Urubamba Valley
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Shepherd
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Goatherd
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Llama
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Group of Alpacas
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Alpaca
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Vicuna
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Vicuna
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A child clearly not in school. She demonstrates spinning for tourists.
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The Urubamba Valley, clearly a flood plain. It was renamed (for tourists) the "Sacred Valley."
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Mountains in the narrow valley of Orubamba. High terraces everywhere, too steep for animals, are plowed by humans using a foot plow.
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Pisco, in the Urubamba valley. Inca ruins above it on the hillside.
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Soccer field in Pisco.
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Hiking aong a trail above Pisco.
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Inca ruins above Pisco.
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Terraces and Inca ruins above Pisco
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Inca ruins.
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Royal stonework.
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Cacti above Pisco in the Urubamba Valley.
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Our house, at the Sol y Luna hotel.
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Our room at the Sol y Luna hotel.
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Lunch at our hotel, the Sol y Luna in Urubamba.
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woman in field (in dress and hat)
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Threshing in front of old Inca wall
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