Incredible scenery! Just look at photos - they speak for themselves !! (Here could the blog entry end, but now one more, two infos :) - The colors (of the mountain) in the pictures are really like that (which you can not say by the way some of the worst post-processed photos on the net ... There you can really hurt yourself ...)! - The colors? Different minerals have each other ...
Before I came to Peru, I did not worry too much about the Incas. Perhaps I also thought that the last great indigenous civilization would be a bit too hype before the Spanish conquest ... After all, that was "only" 500, 600 years ago, and there were other similarly sized, older cultures here. That may also ...
Like a carnival procession ... Only without carnival and with better music ... That's the 16th of July here in the area ... He is consecrated to Our Lady "Our Lady on Mount Carmel" (everybody knows?) , And in a country where Catholicism (which mixes with the traditional belief in nature) is called party, then people in the most colorful costumes go through ...