On an Incan trail going from Huarmachi to Iscayachi, the highest point on the mountain top is 4,300 meters (about 13,000 feet). We stopped briefly on the very cold and windy ridgetop to take a picture and catch our breath, and then headed down to our final destination.
A mountain homestead: a stone house, goat and pig corrals, and small crop fields, up in the Altiplano near Huarmachi.
I am standing on top of a tree (it is hard to tell I know), with Huarmachi and the mountains in the background
Boys dancing Saya at the parade Andino.
The parade Andino and a group of girls from el Norte dancing Saya.
A saturday morning rainbow from my porch.
My personal favorite -- cactus con sombrero.
Tiny little cactuses hidden beneath thola plants.
The family I stayed with in the courtyard of their house.