Markets are popular destinations for travelers, and we’ve frequently featured them on the pages of this website. Today I’d like to share with you the Mercado de San Telmo, a large and historic market in Buenos Aires.
Having just returned from a 3 week vacation to South America, I saw and photographed many fascinating places which I hope to share with you in the coming weeks. I thought I’d start with the most colorful place we visited, La Boca.
Walking through this town in desert steppe of Patagonia, in the rain-shadow of the Andes, we came across this beautiful car “showcased” on a hotel’s grounds. It’s obviously a Ford but can someone help me figure out what year and model it is?
Southwest Airlines, the largest domestic-only U.S. carrier will lose that distinction in 2015 when it starts serving destinations in Mexico, the Caribbean and South America from Houston’s Love Field, its homebase, where flight restrictions will end in…
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!
http://skift.com/2013/09/25/ve…es-are-almost-empty/
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…
Markets are popular destinations for travelers, and we’ve frequently featured them on the pages of this website. Today I’d like to share with you the Mercado de San Telmo, a large and historic market in Buenos Aires.
Having just returned from a 3 week vacation to South America, I saw and photographed many fascinating places which I hope to share with you in the coming weeks. I thought I’d start with the most colorful place we visited, La Boca.
Walking through this town in desert steppe of Patagonia, in the rain-shadow of the Andes, we came across this beautiful car “showcased” on a hotel’s grounds. It’s obviously a Ford but can someone help me figure out what year and model it is?
Southwest Airlines, the largest domestic-only U.S. carrier will lose that distinction in 2015 when it starts serving destinations in Mexico, the Caribbean and South America from Houston’s Love Field, its homebase, where flight restrictions will end in…
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!
http://skift.com/2013/09/25/ve…es-are-almost-empty/
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…
