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NJCU’s 18th annual “Festival of the Andes,” an outdoor festival celebrating the indigenous highland cultures of Ecuador, Bolivia, Peru, Chile, and Colombia, will feature: live Andean music and performances by various dance troupes; musical instrument and dance workshops; displays of native clothing and Andean arts and crafts; a
The major peaks of the Chilean Puna are briefly illuminated as the sun sets, after a stormy afternoon and evening.
From left-to-right the main peaks are: Cerro de San Francisco (far-left, with Laguna Verde just visible in front of it), Cerro de Incahuasi (with the heavy covering of fresh snow), Cerro Mulas Muertas, Cerro El Muerto, Nevado Ojos del Salado (just right-of-centre), Cerro Vicuñas, Cerros de Barrancas Blancas (the extended ridge of peaks on the far-right).
September 15, 2016 - In preparation for tomorrow's visit to Machu Picchu we visited the Inca fortress of Ollantaytambo located in the Sacred Valley. It is located at 9,160 feet above sea level.
"The huge, steep terraces that guard Ollantaytambo’s spectacular Inca ruins mark one of the few places where the Spanish conquistadors lost a major battle.
The rebellious Manco Inca had retreated to this fortress after his defeat at Sacsaywamán. In 1536, Hernando Pizarro, Francisco’s younger half-brother, led a force of 70 cavalrymen to Ollantaytambo, supported by large numbers of indigenous and Spanish foot soldiers, in an attempt to capture Manco Inca.
The conquistadors, showered with arrows, spears and boulders from atop the steep terracing, were unable to climb to the fortress. In a brilliant move, Manco Inca flooded the plain below the fortress through previously prepared channels. With Spaniards’ horses bogged down in the water, Pizarro ordered a hasty retreat, chased down by thousands of Manco Inca’s victorious soldiers.
Yet the Inca victory would be short lived. Spanish forces soon returned with a quadrupled cavalry force and Manco fled to his jungle stronghold in Vilcabamba.
Though Ollantaytambo was a highly effective fortress, it also served as a temple. A finely worked ceremonial center is at the top of the terracing. Some extremely well-built walls were under construction at the time of the conquest and have never been completed. The stone was quarried from the mountainside 6km away, high above the opposite bank of the Río Urubamba. Transporting the huge stone blocks to the site was a stupendous feat. The Incas’ crafty technique to move massive blocks across the river meant carting the blocks to the riverside then diverting the entire river channel around them" The previous text is attributed to Lonely Planet's website.
View of Cerro El Muerto (right-of-centre), with Nevado Ojos del Salado behind (to the left of El Muerto).
My mate Geoff moonwalking through the Andes. We slept on the dirt floor of these kids classroom. Then threw a frisbee around. Amazing trip.
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Snow covered mountaintops, altitude ca 6000 meters, seen from Arequipa, Peru. (Chachani and Misty mountains)
Unica vegetacion a los 5,000 msnm. - Only vegetation to 5.000 meters above sea level.
Tal vez las ultimas fotos de my 60D , pronto llegara la nueva 5DM3!!!
Maybe the last photos with my 60D, soon will arrive THE 5DM3.