As you may know from yesterdays blog I am now in Cuzco. Yesterday was a free day and frankly it was a kind of a long day. I spent the morning trying to contact the travel agent who arranged by trip to see if he could change my flight back to Quito from Lima, since as it is I will arrive in Quito at midnight. That means I wont get to may aopartment until almost 2:00AM. Unfortunately I could not reach him and I will try a little later. I spent th rest of the day just strolling around town.
Cuzco is a pretty large city. It has a beautiful old colonial center with some magniuficent looking old churches. It is a hard city to walk arround in though, because every sidewalk is up and down stairs, and after a few hours of that it takes its tole on me. By supper time my legs were pretty exhausted.
Every city and town in the third world has its people on the streets who try to sell you stuff, everything imaginable from towels and lottery tickets to sunglasses and hair dryers. Here the street vendors just sell mostly art and craft type stuff. What is different here is the volume of street vemdors and their persistence. They are thicker than flies, and a some dont take no for an answer easily. It really is different here in that respect, and unlike most other places, frankly here they are really annoying.
Last night I was very tired and went to bed about 8:00 PM and slept until 4:00 AM. When I woke up I looked out the window from my hotel room. It looks out over one of the plazas here and I have a great view of the facade of one of the museums. The way it was litghted up was beautiful, so I decided to grab a quick shower and take my camera and see what else might look good in the dark. It was a great idea and I found some great light on some terrific subjects. I came back to the hotel and had breakfast abot 5:00 and went back out to shoot some more as the sun was coming up. It was terrific.
I will stroll around town some more this morning and then this afternoon I have a planned tour of the city that will run until supper time.
Tomorrow I have to be ready to be picked up at 5:00 AM to go to the train to Machu Picchu.
Machu is quite a bit lower in elevation, and closer to the jungle. They say it is very humid and there arethere are lots of mosquitos. I need to pick up some repellant and pack a small bag of stuff for my one nigjhts stay at a little village near Machu, called Aguas Calientes. I will arrive at Machu aboiut mid day tomorrow and have the rest of that day at Machu. I will stay over night at Aguas calientes and return to
Well, I will stop there for now. I will probably make my next entry after going to Machu.
Adios for now,
Glenn+
1 comment:
Hi Glenn,
The hottest topic around is the race between Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama. Hillary was way ahead but Obama is catching up. They're quite close now and it's anyone's guess who will win the nomination.
Lot's of other political things going on but you're on vacation so no need to think about it until you get back. Bush wants to start drilling for oil in one of two areas known as habitat for the polar bears. They're predicting the end of polar bears by 2050, other than those in captivity. If the Republicans get in again the polar bears will be finished a lot quicker than that.
We are considering a photoshoot in the Page area the last week of April. That may be of interest to you if you can get any more time off.
I photographed the Indian hoop dancers at the Scottsdale Civic Center a few weeks ago but can't find the photos. I think I erased them by mistake. I'll reshoot this Tuesday.
Also on Tuesday Justice Breyer is coming to ASU and I'd like to get over there to listen to him. I've seen him on TV and he's a really interesting guy.
Bob Campbell was telling me that he left some paper out while he was in Texas for a couple of months and it developed a color cast even though the room was virtually dark. Go figure. What's this about archival papers?
Have a great time,
Chick
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