Crossing the Andes

Mendoza -> Valparaiso

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;

Our first look at the mountains when they finally turned on the windows on the plane

Fotografo

David Oliveros

Desde Cerro Manquehue

View looking east towards the Andes up the Camarones River Valley.

monochrome depiction of the Andes ranges in Peru, the Lares trek

Traveling the backroads up in the Andes of Peru

View to the north.

Andes, Peru

As we traveled from Buenos Aires to Ushuaia (at the southern-most tip of South America), we flew over the Andes.

Vista desde el avion

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desde la cumbre del hermano chico

The culpeo, sometimes known as the zorro culpeo or Andean fox.

Very common bird in Colombia,especially near people. In some ways filling the niche of Corvids in the northern hemispere. South American Jays,the only Corvids, are elusive forest birds.

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Andes

view of the Andes from our refugio

Monumento a la Bandera

Cordillera de los Andes - Argentina

My brother-in-law Nelson and my stepson Augusto warming up to a dawn sun at an altitude of a little over 14,000 ft. (4,270 mt.) in the Bolivian Cordillera Oriental of the Andes about 100 miles (161 km) NNW of Cochabamba (as the crow flies, assuming a crow flies in a straight line, and at that altitude)

In Lima, Peru