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Buenos Aires, Argentina

Well, it is nice to dust the cobwebs off the old cut offs once again. The latino world of style awaits... This place is huge. Calder meets up with old amigo David Munro from Busby at symposium on global warming and cerveza chilling.
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Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States

Do they make that cheese spread here or what? This is the town where my brother plays hockey. Will he be here to pick me up at the airport when I return?
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Puno, Peru

The folks out here live, eat, sleep, boat and pretty much do everything revolved around their reeds. Their village floated on the water thanks to the reeds. When the reeds rot away they just add new ones on top or build a new canoe.
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Cusco, Peru

This is where the tourists are. This is where the gringo gets hassled to buy packages!
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Aguas Calentes or Manchu Picchu, Peru

This is what everybody wants to see and no doubt. It is awesome.
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Ollantatambo, Peru

Inca Trails were outlined by spiky cactus plants growing along both sides of the road. I was able to ride some 50km cross country on bicycle to the town where the majority of backpackers get on the train to Manchu Pichu. Thankfully for trustworthy people I sent my gear along on a combi (bus) and I still had a pack. The highlight was my 15 year old guide stopping in with the locals he knew along the way for some chicha (corn beer). Once we met up with some man in his corn field and drank it right there from the still and had some green peaches off the tree for desert.
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Chinchero, Peru

Travel adventures out of the sacred valley were awesome for me. I was not planning on doing the cheap, but I did it. I hired a postcard selling kid and his friend as guides, I bought them dinner for $1 each meal and bus tickets for all of our missions. First stop hiking 20km through the valley the way people used to go. Views galore!
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Iquitos, Peru

Travels to the jungle were via twin 150Hp Evenrude engines 100km downstream from Iquitos. Iquitos is the worlds largest city disconnected from anywhere by road. (pop. 600,000). People bring in monkeys, sloths and all kinds of bird to market for food.
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Arequipa, Peru

Cool city a 20 hour bus ride from Lima. RC ratings a little low as the reliance on tourism is a little to high.
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Chivay, Peru

The photos that I took did not capture the glory of the condor. I will have others coming via e-mail in the future from some of the people I met visiting the condor valley. Also included is a mummy from the dessert. In the highlands there have been mummies discovered also. In fact, 1996 Juanita the mummy was discovered at 6300m where she was intact frozen. So in tact that her brain, and bodily fluids were still with her. The other shots are from the main city that gets hammered by earthquakes and is like the portal to the highlands.
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