Pictures of climbing wayna picchu to overlook macchu picchu by some 600 + feet....that's about 50 stories......first pic is daughter and granddaughter sitting on a ledge overlooking macchu picchu.....clouds shrouding the sacred town in mystery....me overlooking it with my orange Auburn shirt on showing the auburn speedster in vibrant yellow and orange (my racing colors)...a fellow shouted at me that he liked my shirt....I answered it came from Auburn In and he said "I know"....the daughter and granddaughter taking a selfie with Macchu Picchu in the background.....my son on the very very summit of Wayna Picchu which is just about five large boulders arranged randomly with no actual flat place to stand with Macchu Picchu behind.....

Spectacular spectacular spectacular views.

With these mountains surrounding soaring into the 16000 feet range it is no wonder the Inca worshipped them.

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..I also have a 427 Cobra replica with an aluminum chassis.

That's all the pics I got before my camera broke....! the daughter let me take some with her camera but I don't have them yet.

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..I also have a 427 Cobra replica with an aluminum chassis.

They are catching hell there now in Agua Caliente. The tracks are washed out and a lot of folks had to be evacuated by copter.

Glad we missed the excitement!

In pictures of the flooding, substantial riverfront development is being washed away...places we stood and took pictures!

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..I also have a 427 Cobra replica with an aluminum chassis.

One has to wonder why the original population chose to live at high altitudes and on such rugged terrain. It is beautiful as your kindly shared pictures show.

Although extremely difficult to develop. Even getting the terraces into useable condition had to be a massive undertaking.. The views from that peak are spectacular.

The reason they live there is that that is where the fertile ground is, up in the high valleys of the Andeas. Further north and to the east is the amazon jungle. These high passes are excellent for growing things because of the rainfall that comes to the east of the peaks.

Along the coast they live off the bounty of the sea. There is very deep water just off the coast. The Peruvian fisheries provide 10% of the total catch of the world fisheries from 2% of the fishable ocean area.

The people who live in the mountains are not bothered by the altitude at all. In fact their lungs get larger to accommodate the need for more oxygen absorbtion. As for building on that peak, it was a massive undertaking but the Inca had millions of people and all were obligated to provide a certain part of their year to working for the Inca doing civic projects.

The Inca built Macchu Picchu to prove they could. To impress their people and their enemies with their awesome abilities....so I am told.

Although their Architecture is impressive for sure in its masonry work for sure it really does not hold a candle to the greeks or Romans who built impressive structures two thousand years earlier.

The Inca were more impressive for their civil engineering than their Architecture IMHO. They dealt with the water coming from the sky and the drinking water which came from the ground in most impressive ways. Their aqueducts are still in use today in many many places.

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[SIGPIC] Diesel loving autocrossing grandpa Architect. 08 Dodge 3/4 ton with Cummins & six speed; I have had about 35 benzes. I have a 39 Studebaker Coupe Express pickup in which I have had installed a 617 turbo and a five speed manual.[SIGPIC]

..I also have a 427 Cobra replica with an aluminum chassis.

Thread revival.

Lima Skyline, Costa Verde, Larcomar, Miraflores

That is how it looks! Lovely place to visit. I am advised that there are places to not go in Lima.

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[SIGPIC] Diesel loving autocrossing grandpa Architect. 08 Dodge 3/4 ton with Cummins & six speed; I have had about 35 benzes. I have a 39 Studebaker Coupe Express pickup in which I have had installed a 617 turbo and a five speed manual.[SIGPIC]

..I also have a 427 Cobra replica with an aluminum chassis.

Nice to see this thread revived. Since this thread started.A local friends daughter married a south American working in Canada. The family expects the couple will eventually live back there.

A very nice person and few south Americans ever seem to work this far north. He is a welding inspector and she is a social worker. Both work in the oil sands area of Canada.

He is very smart, very personable, and very outgoing. I may ask him sometime how he acquired perfect English and maybe not. There is no other accent that is detectable in his speech.

Come to think of it he does not look like the typical person of that region. So he could be from a family there from yet another background.

Equador is his home country. Or at least where his own family currently resides. Both of them are in their mid to later twenties. They fly to south America a couple of times a year as well as to the east coast here to visit her family at least once a year.

The oil sands patch is a real visual mess. Has a tremendous remaining capacity. Although from a financial perspective it has really helped Canada out. It is still a real and growing mess.

Parents and the large physical distances their children can land up at today are perhaps not historically typical. One of our doctors sons married into the largest prescription drug manufacturer family in India. Their daughter was a university student here with him.

The doctors four sons are gifted to say the least. My wife had a major involvement with all of them educational wise years ago. We are told by our doctor that she still comes up in conversation by them when their family gets together. I have always suspected the wife could run a country and would probably do well at it. All the boys landed up in very high caliber jobs where frequent extensive world travel is involved. They are officers of the world bank etc.

We have a substantial history with our doctor. Like the time he dropped by with two of the boys. One boy picked up a brick and nailed the other in the forehead with it. They were pretty young then and a slight scar remains.

I have a couple who are clients. He is a professor of EE at Purdue, she works as a translator related to the courts system. He is from Peru, she from Equador. Very very personable high quality people.

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[SIGPIC] Diesel loving autocrossing grandpa Architect. 08 Dodge 3/4 ton with Cummins & six speed; I have had about 35 benzes. I have a 39 Studebaker Coupe Express pickup in which I have had installed a 617 turbo and a five speed manual.[SIGPIC]

..I also have a 427 Cobra replica with an aluminum chassis.

I once met this guy. On a market.

That'd be perfect for a movie heist job.

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..I also have a 427 Cobra replica with an aluminum chassis.

There are plenty of pockets and areas, you and I better stay out of.

Esp. the Rimac District, which is across the river bed.
You can't just walk over there. Chances are, you will not re-appear.
I once took a small bus there, going up to the top of Mount Cristobal.
An adventurous experience. Incredible view from the top. I'd have to search my archives for pictures. This is a www stock photo

Train ride from Cusco to Machu Picchu

Nice picture! It felt a little like riding into the island where the dinosaurs lived. That was a nice train. It was also narrow gauge track.

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[SIGPIC] Diesel loving autocrossing grandpa Architect. 08 Dodge 3/4 ton with Cummins & six speed; I have had about 35 benzes. I have a 39 Studebaker Coupe Express pickup in which I have had installed a 617 turbo and a five speed manual.[SIGPIC]

..I also have a 427 Cobra replica with an aluminum chassis.

It's a significant drop in elevation. From around 11k feet in Cusco to approx. 6k feet in Aguas Client. From mountainous terrain into tropical.