This is the city of Chan Chan, in the middle of a coastal desert, so no surprise, they liked fish. They direct you through the ruins with signs shaped like fish. "Follow the fish", we took to saying after this (or sometimes "Shut up and follow the fucking fish!" Ulf usually concludes a visit to any tourist attraction by saying "Let's get out of this fucking place."). Chan Chan is made out of adobe, and was built around 1400.
This was the Canyon de Santo, on the Rio Santo. This was the road that led to the Canyon del Pato, a major tourist attraction, but this one was better.
This is a reproduction of the image of the sun that once existed in an Incan temple in Cuzco. The Conquistadores of course had the bulky original melted down into easy-to-carry ingots.
This is from the crypt tour of the Fransiscan cathedral in Lima. After a few decades in the crypt, bodies buried there tended to disintegrate into just bones, and eventually most of the bones also turned to dust, except for thighbones and skulls. There are the remains of roughly 10,000 people in this pit... and if you look on the lower right, one bag of Doritos.
This is the Candelabra, which might have been either a signal point for 16th century pirates, or maybe a drawing of the hallucinagenic plant San Pedro.
This is the humming bird figure at the Nazca lines, and this is probably the best shot I got that day since it was partly cloudy... and this shot probably makes the lines look a little more impressive than they actually are.
The Santa Catalina Monastery in Arequipa.
The monastery (actually really a nunnery) was a kind of storehouse for surplus daughters of the wealthy in Arequipa in past centuries. The second daughter had to go if the second son didn't become a priest, and they were expected to devote their lives to praying the rest of their families out of Purgatory. In exchange, the families endowed the monastery lavishly so the rich young girls could live in the style to which they had become accustomed.
The wall to the right of me is the current limits of where the nuns live now, about 20 of them, still cloistered, but now they can look out the windows.
The Inca terraces still in use near the Colca Canyon.
Colca Canyon is rumored to be twice as deep as the Grand Canyon, but as many of the tourists around us complained, it's more of a Colca Valley. I still liked it.
This is a condor we saw flying at the Colca Canyon. It doesn't look like it here, but this is a juvenile with a 3 meter (roughly 10 foot) wingspan, as shot by my crappy camera.
The road in the Andes, from Juliaca to Cuzco.
An Inca wall in the center of Cuzco. These walls were originally part of Inca buildings, and were used as the virtually earthquake proof foundations of the Spanish colonial buildings (which are nowhere near earthquake proof - some of these walls have now been the foundations of 3 or 4 different buildings.)
A rainbow that we saw below us at the ruins of the Inca town Pisac.
These walls form the teeth of the puma, where the fortress of Sacsayhuaman is the head.
Both of the above images are from the fortress of Sacsayhuaman (the easiest mnemonic is "Sexy woman" in English - and once you know that, it is nearly impossible to pronounce it any other way, try as you might.)
The Inca town of Ollyantatambo. The terraces here were in use by the people in the town until the place was made a national park.
This rock outcropping is supposed to look like a condor. After a while the group of tourists I was with began to rebel against our guides when they tried to have us find all sorts of animal shapes in the surrounding rocks...
Machu Picchu, the Lost City, lost again.
These are the mountains across the river from Machu Picchu. One of them had a landslide onto the train tracks below later that week.
We love the rainy season.
This is a hut with the original thatch roof replaced. One of the people with us was from Ireland - "Aren't you glad that you travelled 7000 miles from home to see this," I said. 
The mist did finally clear, and I was able to get this shot - the mountains in the background are supposed to look like the head of a sleeping Inca, where the forehead is on the right and the chin is on the left. And if you can see that, I have a puma I'd like to show you...
These are the groundskeepers of Machu Picchu.
A mural in Cuzco.
The Floating Islands of Lake Titicaca.
A boat of the Uros people.
