Lima

Ica

If you want your documents to be typed ?
On the doorstep of the city hall this man was earning money by helping people type their important papers or help them read them, where do you find such service anymore

Chivay

On the road to
(3000 meters ) 

Our first way up into the high Andes was on the way to Chivay to later see the Colca canyon. The view on the high planes is magnificent. The mighty 'El Misti' is in the back ground and you can see Lama's, vegunias and Alpaca's in this endless landscape  

Colca Canyon

On our way back, after we watched the Condors fly of to the sea, I taste some of the Cactus fruit this lady sold along the road and couldn't resist and took another picture  

Taquile

(on lake Titicaca)
We stayed on Taquille for a night in the house of a family from the tribe that lives on this self supporting Island in the middle of lake Titicaca. On the Island you she the women spin the wool and the men knitting it into clothes. Especially the caps are important, because you become a man if you can knit your own cap. If you get married you have to knit a new one because married men ware different ones from the singles