From my trip in South America. My second stop - Perú. May 26-31, 2006.

1. Machu Picchu, Perú
May 26 -31 , 2006
I woke up before landing,
and this is what I saw.
My jaw dropped!
I could have hang-glided in
Lima, but there wasn’t
enough of a breeze.

2. Descending on Perú.
The layers of antiquity. People build on top of
old sites of importance or power. This used to
be a temple of old - now it is a church.

3. I don’t see it, but maybe you can.
The jaguar: The town below is supposed to have the
shape of a jaguar’s body, and the temple above is
supposed to be the head with the teeth.
I see the teeth, but not the body.

4. The largest temple stone. The smallest temple stone (as big as thumb nail).

7. I must be really dense. People kept saying how much power they
felt radiating from this stone … but I felt nothing.
However, I did have other sorts of experiences.

8. These are agricultural lands. They practice terrace farming. In the old days, they would hang the corn and
other grains upside down, and the winds would dry it and preserve it.

9. There was a church, a market, and a museum here.
I bought a really nice, soft, alpaca wool sweater. The
most sorrowful thing that happened to me was that a
woman chased after me so that I would buy the
sweater from her. I really liked it, but walked away
because it was too expensive for my budget, … so she
took what I could give her. I really wish I’d had more
money. She and her family must have been in real
need.