Peru
Lima Far Outskirts
[Peru] After about two hours in the bus towards Huaraz, we finally made it to this last human habitation in the Lima outskirts before the land became empty.
Lima Near Outskirts
[Peru] There are a couple million people are living in these conditions surrounding Lima. There are hundreds of square miles of desert hills (It almost never rains) filled with shanty towns crawling up the slopes. I took a taxi on an all day drive with the goal of finding the most out-there place I could.
Receding Glaciers
[Peru] Underneath 5,900 meter Taulliraju is one of the locations in the world where scientists are measuring receding glaciers and climate warming. This particular glacier was down at the water’s edge 20 years ago.
Black and White
[Peru] [2004] I arrived in Lima in an odd frame of mind, not having decided where I was going to go. I gave myself a day to think about it. I was divided. The Colca Canyons and Ariquipa? Cuzco, the Inca Trail, Machu Pichu? Or Huaraz and the Cordillera Blanca? Morning number two found me […]
Isabel and Meri
[Peru] I was in Peru hiking and spent the first day in Lima walking around. An attractive, shabbily dressed woman approached me who proposed being my guide for a city tour. She had a portfolio of pictures of her with other tourists and her name was Isabel. As we talked another woman came up and […]