Tuesday, November 25, 2008

sun cont

view looking out one of the windows
they let 400 people a day walk up to the top of the lookout peak

another view


the sign as far as I wanted to go



Road the bus comes up and down down is frightning





sun cont

look how tight the blocks fit together
notice the block abovbe the girls is cracked

some of these doors Fred couldn't have gotten thru a month ago


steps carved



proof picture





sun cont

They farmeed up here on these terraces
this skinny guy is Fred

tourist shot


Fred and his new friends



Looking down at train tracks we came in on
we took a bus to the top from the train with a suicide bus driver





Sun

this was after 7 in the morn the train went past 4 fields all in use
train we were on climbing out of Cusco

Cusco sits in a bowl the train has to climb out then go down the Urubamba river valley for four hours


another view going up



where we stayed sat & sun night





sat cont

First view of Cusco
where road const was

Cusco


road repair town



same





sat

view as we leftChalhuanca where we stayed fri night
hotel and bike parking

we road about 80 miles in this valley


cops house across from hotel



front of hotel





fri cont

stopped for an hour for road derpairs
on way to Cusco

views






15,00 ft it got cold up hereit was 36 degrees and it started to rain then turned to ic we started down and it got warmer and was just rain we stopped at the first hotel to wait untill morning





fri cont

Fri we climbed as we drove east tyoward Cusco it was a steady climb untill we reached 15,500 ft
always a lot of animals along the road way

great views


green valleys



view





Fri 11 21

Leaving Nasca it starts to get green within the first 60 miles
climbs fast to 13,000 ft




some sand areas mixed in



that was the last mountain of sand





Friday, November 21, 2008

thur cont

we climbed this hill to see more lines Fred stayed to watch the bikes

Nasca where we spent the night


PanAm



Fred at top of tower