La Paz to Lake Titicaca




An old VW Beetle (surprisingly common in Cusco) in front of the Qoricancha ruins, once the site of the Inca Temple of the Sun.




Nice stonework along an old Inca road near Cusco's main plaza.




A weekend festival featured little soldiers with camouflage pencils.




A princess, a tiger, and a parrot suit up to join the festivities.




Girls hold environment-themed signs.  The kids behind them wore color-coded "Organico" and "Inorganico" trash bags to promote separating compost from trash.




The Inca site of Moray, thought to have been an agricultral research station.  A visitor medidates in the center while workers "restore" the outer rings.




Walked from Moray to Salinas - salty water flows out of the ground and is channeled into dozens of evaporation ponds where the salt is collected.




A typical lane in Ollantaytambo - channels divert water through the town, hillside ruins can be seen above. 




A friendly kitten hopped onto my lap at Govinda restaurant in Aguas Calientes, batted at my camera lens cap, groomed, napped, shared Amanda's veggie burger.




Two types of translucent butterflies (the larger looks like a species of Ithomiinae) mobbed these little yellow flowers.




Waterfall at Mandor, a few km up the train tracks from Aguas Calientes.




Another cascade through impressively-shaped rocks.




A "tarantula hawk moth" (the blue insect with dark amber wings) was dragging a dead sized spider several times its size, and doing pretty well at it.




Another kitty, this one at the hotel where we stayed, joins Amanda for the standard breakfast of bread, bananas, and fresh-squeezed orange juice.




As we walked UP to Machu Picchu, we came across this interesting sphinx moth.