Monday, February 22, 2010

Travels Across Northern Peru

Photo essay style! We ended up travelling through Lima to Trujillo and its beach and then down through the sierra to Huaraz before heading home. A recap is to come, but here are some photos to whet the appetite.








The male contingent of JV Peru 2010 posturing for the camera. Next to me is Seamus and then Nate.









Some shots of the snow capped mountains peaking through the clouds in the beautiful cordillera blanca.












Just a remarkably beautiful view in this national park. The lagoon is in the foreground with towering cliffs on either side.










Though it doesn´t look like much in this photo, this is overlooking the town of Yungay, that was completely destroyed (25,000 died) in an earthquake in 1970 when a chunk of the glacier that is behind the hill you can see came off and then slid down and covered the entire town like a blanket. It is a very tragic and eerie place: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yungay,_Peru






Me, the Plaza de Armas de Trujillo and an early early Sunday morning.














The lighting is a little off, but this is us at the beach Huanchaco by Trujillo.











The nighttime show at the Parque de Aguas (which has some Guiness record for most and biggest fountains)












Inside the Tunnel Fountain (I think I had been wearing those clothes for like three days straight because of all the overnight buses that we took)








Last, and almost certainly least, is a picture of this creepy clown they made out of the trunk of a tree and put randomly in a park in Lima

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