Home - 2018 - Peru - August 24 - Trekking day 3

Photographer: Josh Eckels

Morning light in the valley Paukarkancha again Pre-breakfast walk Low-altitude condor? Clucking and crowing Paukarkancha still in the morning shadows Trying to blend in Cerveza for offer Mini irrigation channel Sitting down on the job More snow caps Bright green barley Firey red Crossing the temporary irrigation stream Potatoes and fava beans Grazing away Mud brick construction in progress Drying and baking Entering the next village Too wide to cross with dry feet More and more buildings Covered cliff face Nevado Veronica in the distance Nevado Veronica More and more and more bromeliads Orange dots everywhere Incoming mules Nevado Veronica Cicada All lit up Meeting up with part of the Inca Trail Entering the smaller Llactapata ruins Upstairs grainary Butterfly over the perched shrub Spikey seeds at Llactapata Orange and green First big view of Patallacta Patallacta panorama Top part of Patallacta About to enter Patallacta Almost done with the third day's hiking Only eight years old Approaching the sun temple Cross-braced Peeking out the window Checking out the mummy cubbies In the sun temple Campground with a view Patallacta under threatening skies Village pathway Patallacta signage Sun temple, built on a really big boulder Llama on duty Tagged and lazy Panting in the afternoon sun Dirty sheep Grazing on the terrace Heading up the stairs Roofless but otherwise intact High rent area at the top Old and new From the top of Patallacta More of the Andes Dirt mound Guard point across the valley Plowing the field Up the terraces Llamas at the bottom Succulents gripping on Another view of the sun temple Curved temple wall Boulder for foundation Duck and ducklings Corn looking happy Weeds at the campground Trumpets Off duty for the day Late afternoon at the base of Patallacta Kitchen area Small stream through the campground Thinking about making the hop Dinner tent is ready Happy hour begins Almost full Tent lantern Clear southern skies

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