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Lama sous le soleil
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Machu Picchu - Pérou / Machu Picchu - Peru
One and a quarter hours from Quito, capital of Ecuador, stands the beautiful and little known colonial Hacienda of San AgustÃn de Callo. Built on the site of an Inca palace, one of the two most important archaeological Inca sites in Ecuador.
You know by now that the Atacama Desert, in Chile, is a motionless spectacle. Magnificent. The sky is immensely blue. The colors and the shades change. Almost motionless, because you can also see pink flamingos and llamas.
Llama figurine made by South American Incas 1440-1532.
Llamas were an important part of the the Inca economy and also pets and companions. Small llama statues were frequent temple offerings.
This one, larger than usual at 230mm tall, is a masterpiece of worked silver sheets. It is simple in form yet captures in its abstracted elegance the very essence of llama. It's an artefact you dearly want to own!
Sainsbury Centre for Visual Arts, UEA, Norwich, UK
The one-l Lama,
he's a priest
(Hello Dalai).
The two-l llama,
he's a beast
(often melancholy).
And I will bet
a silk pajama
there isn't any
three-l llama,
(he’s extinct).
--remembering Ogden Nash
a poet of my childhood
Parque de la Amistad - Surco - (Lima - Perú)
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Llamas are intelligent and can learn simple tasks after a few repetitions. The wool produced by a llama is very soft and lanolin-free.
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Native Ayamara herders and their dogs march a group of llamas across a hillside while the sun sets in front of them. Pastoral herding of llamas is an ancient tradition in Bolivia and a mainstay of the rural economy along with quinoa cultivation. The animals are shorn for their fur which is more coarse than their alpaca cousins, and used for blankets and some clothing items. Note the woman on the right is carrying branches in her satchel, presumably for fuel.
Thanks to Peter Böhringer for suggesting the composition.
I don’t know if this llama has a name. But Dolly Llama seemed like a fine title for my photograph. Dolly lives on a farm near me and is free to roam a large field with other llamas. alpacas, long horn cattle and more. Dolly took barely a moment from scratching her posterior with her teeth for a full-face portrait.