Gumbo’s Pic of the Day, February 7, 2015: A Market in Iquitos
February 7, 2015
I enjoy visiting local markets on my travels and do so often. One of the most unique I’ve ever visited was this market in Iquitos.
I enjoy visiting local markets on my travels and do so often. One of the most unique I’ve ever visited was this market in Iquitos.
Everyone knows the Eiffel Tower, or Tour Eiffel. You could probably draw a pretty accurate sketch without even looking. And quite a few folks know that that Gustave Eiffel, who designed and built it, also provided the iron skeleton that keeps the Statue of Liberty standing in New York Harbor.
Situated in Peru’s coastal desert, about 400 km south of Lima, are a number of ancient geoglyphs the history and purpose of which is unknown. It’s thought they may have been crafted about the 5th or 6th century A.D. These many…
During one of our trips to Peru we visited Lake Titicaca, a very large and high altitude lake in the Andes, spending a few days in the lakeside Peruvian city of Puno. While on one of our day-trips we visited the ruins of Sullustani National Monument, from a pre-Incan culture.
The Inca people of South America’s Andes mountains were remarkable engineers. Unlike Europeans, who used mortar to bond together large walls of brick or rock, Incas carefully shaped and chiseled stones so that they fit together perfectly!
Machu Picchu is a well known Inca ruin situated on top of a steep granite peak in the Peruvian Andes (2430 m above sea level). Despite the altitude, its location near the equator provides a warm climate and the hills on which it rests are…
I enjoy visiting local markets on my travels and do so often. One of the most unique I’ve ever visited was this market in Iquitos.
Everyone knows the Eiffel Tower, or Tour Eiffel. You could probably draw a pretty accurate sketch without even looking. And quite a few folks know that that Gustave Eiffel, who designed and built it, also provided the iron skeleton that keeps the Statue of Liberty standing in New York Harbor.
Situated in Peru’s coastal desert, about 400 km south of Lima, are a number of ancient geoglyphs the history and purpose of which is unknown. It’s thought they may have been crafted about the 5th or 6th century A.D. These many…
During one of our trips to Peru we visited Lake Titicaca, a very large and high altitude lake in the Andes, spending a few days in the lakeside Peruvian city of Puno. While on one of our day-trips we visited the ruins of Sullustani National Monument, from a pre-Incan culture.
The Inca people of South America’s Andes mountains were remarkable engineers. Unlike Europeans, who used mortar to bond together large walls of brick or rock, Incas carefully shaped and chiseled stones so that they fit together perfectly!
Machu Picchu is a well known Inca ruin situated on top of a steep granite peak in the Peruvian Andes (2430 m above sea level). Despite the altitude, its location near the equator provides a warm climate and the hills on which it rests are…