Today’s photo was taken from the observation car of our train, the Andean Explorer as we traveled from Cusco to Lake Titicaca in the highlands of Peru. It was early evening and I really like the soft light and long shadows at that time of day. The railroad traverses very flat terrain, a valley between…
Category: 2011 Cruise
Chilean Wine Country
Our last stop, a relaxing 5 days in the wine country south of Santiago. Our first destination was the beautiful Apalta vineyard in the Colchagua Valley, about 2-1/2 hours from Santiago. We stayed at the Lapostolle Winery, where we enjoyed a relaxing couple of days, decompressing after a vigourous travel schedule the previous week. We visited…
Santiago
We wrapped up our recent holiday in South America with a week in Chile. Our first stop was the capital city, Santiago, a very modern city of about 4.5 million people. Following are a few favourite scenes from our short stay in Santiago. This first picture was taken in a district called “Paris and London”….
Lake Titicaca: Taquile Island
Taquile is an island on the Peruvian side of Lake Titicaca 45 km offshore from the city of Puno. About 1,700 people live on the island, which is 5.5 by 1.6 km in size (maximum measurements), with an area of 5.72 km². The highest point of the island is 4050 meters above sea level and the…
Lake Titicaca, the Uros Islands
I’ll be posting my photos from the Lake Titicaca in two parts, beginning with this blog featuring the Uros Islands and its people. We disembarked from our train from Cusco in late afternoon and were escorted to our room at the nearby Libertador Hotel. We had a great view of the lake and I was…