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Juliaca is the largest city in the Puno Region located in Peru's Alitplano (highlands) at an altitude of 3825 m. It is not far off the Northwestern corner of Lake Titicaca. It is located on the Puno to Cusco highway and railroad where both branch off to Arequipa.This makes Juliaca a major trade and transportation hub and an industrial city.
Cusco, a city in the Peruvian Andes, was once capital of the Inca Empire, and is now known for its archaeological remains and Spanish colonial architecture.
Plaza de Armas is the central square in the old city, with arcades, carved wooden balconies and Incan wall ruins.
The San Blas neighborhood is the heart of the city of Cusco. People who have been in this neighborhood say that a mysterious energy is felt through its streets.
The Central Market of Cusco or Mercado de San Pedro was built in 1925 and is the oldest in the city.
Peru is a magical destination, abundant with ancient ruins dating back to the Incas.
Peru is the third largest country in South America, after Brazil and Argentina.
There is one thing the photograph must contain, the humanity of the moment.
Taking an image, freezing a moment, reveals how rich reality truly is.
Photography is an austere and blazing poetry of the real.
The best thing about a picture is that it never changes, even when the people in it do.
Lima Peru
You can read about my experiences in Peru, including Lima, Inca Trail, Machu Picchu, Aguas Caliente, Cuzco, SAS Travel, Dead Womans Pass and more in my travel blog:
The Saqsaywaman (known as Sexy Woman) Inca ruins above Cuzco. Some believe the walls were a form of fortification, while others believe it was only used to form the head of the Puma that Saqsaywaman along with Cuzco form when seen from above. Like much Inca stonework, there is still mystery surrounding how they were constructed. The structure is built in such a way that a single piece of paper will not fit between many of the stones. This precision, combined with the rounded corners of the limestone blocks, the variety of their interlocking shapes, and the way the walls lean inward, is thought to have helped the ruins survive devastating earthquakes in Cuzco. The longest of three walls is about 400 meters. They are about 6 meters tall. The Spanish harvested a large quantity of rock from the walls of the structure to build churches in Cuzco, which is why the walls are in perfect condition up to a certain height, and missing above that point
Today was a very hard day. We hiked up 2000 feet in the jungle, then descended 3500 feet. Going up was very humid. We saw huge spiders and centipedes along the way.
Shortly after the pass we stopped at a nice plateau that had some Inca ruins. From here, we could see our first glimpses of Machu Picchu.
At the bottom of the hike, we said goodbye to our assistant guide Juri and jumped on a train to Aguas Calientes.
I wandered through the rows of displayed textiles. The quality varied greatly. To help support their economy and efforts, I chose a nice, 48" square weaving. Seeing me make a selection, the woman who made it got up from the row of women and approached me. I paid her $US 45.00 for it. That was a huge sum to her, but it represented two months of work.
The most important and prestigious religious building in Peru, the Monasterio de Santa Catalina is a convent which housed almost two hundred secluded nuns and three hundred servants from the late sixteenth century until it opened some of its outer doors to the public in 1970. Its enormous complex of rooms, cloisters and tiny plazas takes a good hour or two to explore. Some thirty nuns still live here today.
Originally the concept of Gaspar Vae in 1570, though only granted official licence five years later, the convent was funded by the Viceroy Toledo and the wealthy Maria de Guzmán, who later entered the convent with one of her sisters and donated all her riches to the community. The most striking feature is its predominantly Mudéjar style, adapted by the Spanish from the Moors, but which rarely found its way into their colonial buildings. The quality of the design is emphasized and harmonized by a superb interplay between the strong sunlight, white stone and brilliant colours in the ceilings and the deep-blue sky above the maze of narrow interior streets.
Incidencias generales del partido por el 7º y 8º puesto del V Sudamericano de Futbol Sala, categoria Sub-21 Masculino, disputado entre las selecciones de Peru Vs Uruguay, realizado en el Gimnasio "Campeones Mundiales de 1997" en San Cristóbal, Estado Tachira, Venezuela, el 21 de junio de 2013 (Gennaro Pascale Caicedo / Prensa Deportivo Tachira)