Peru, Bolivia: independent travel video, travel photography

Peru & Bolivia

The feeling you have after you visited Peru is that you reached a remote and isolated destination. Maybe is not so far, grace to the modern jets, but still you keep flying and flying to get to Cuzco a city placed at 3400m above the sea level. The first problem you encounter is this altitude, especially because you always fly coming from Lima. So your surprise is great when the hostess from the plane is offering you "matte de coca" , a concoction done from boiling coca leaves, which will be offered everywhere you go in Cuzco. Protected by mountains which surrounds it, Cuzco, mesmerizes you right away. The fantastic combination of the city dwellings, the Inca walls, the Spanish churches ,the colorful mercados which are spread in the whole city, the Quechua people ,dressed in traditional costumes which are pigmenting the streets, coming from different parts of the, once famous, Empire Tihuantisuyo, the lamas and alpacas roaming the roads, the cobbled streets, the quiet squares are part of the fascination of this amazing Inca-colonial city. Cuzco was once a majestic city, the proud capital of a very powerful empire which spread from the Argentina to the Ocean and from the southern part of Columbia till the northern tip of Chile, an empire who carried all over an amazing Inca civilization, of great wealth ,culture and traditions, and of an extreme level of artistic skill, which is preserved, fortunately, even in the present days. The mystery which shrouds this civilization is caused mainly by the efforts of the spaniard conquerers to eradicate all traces of Inca religion and culture and by the forgotten cities buried in the jungle, Machu Pichu being the most famous of them.

Come with us and see an interesting travel video about this mysterious land. You'll watch the majestic city of Cuzco, the holy citadel of Sachsayhuaman, when the Incas performed all the sacred rituals, and where it was determined that the land has some mystical powers, the sites of Quenco, Puca Pucara and Tambo Macay, the holy Urubamba valley of the Inca, the colorful city of Pisac which has on Sunday one of the most interesting market in the area, the old citadel of Ollaytantanbo, the last outpost protected by Incas against the invasion, the indigen city of Chincero. After that we take a tour on the famous Inca trail, a part of the extensive road which was connecting all corners of the empire, which will bring us to forgotten cities in the jungle and eventually at the sunrise to the Sun Gate overlooking the famous Machu Pichu. We continue with a train ride across the Altiplano, where the alpacas and lamas are herded at 4000m and going to Puno, on the shores of Lake Titicaca, "the lake of the black pumas". After visiting the islands on the lake, Uros and Taquile, and the misterious tombs of Silustani, we take a bus ride to Bolivia, where from La Paz, a city at 4000m picturesquely placed and the snowed peak of Ililmani, we go to visit Tihuanaco, one of the oldest archeological pre Inca site from the Americas, and after that, Vale de la Luna. Coming back to Peru we go to La Ciudad Blanca of Arequipa and we finish in Lima with the magnificinet colonial architecture, hosting the famous Museo d•Oro, a gold collection of the remaining gold of the Inca.