Peru - Cuzco

Bill was taking above picture of me in the main plaza when the two little girls jumped in the picture (for a tip, of course). Savvy business women, these two, complete with the baby llama for maximum cuteness!

There are rainbow flags everywhere. I was very impressed with how gay-friendly Cuzco was until Bill told me that they are actually the official city flag:

June 24 is Inti Raymi (the Festival of the Sun) in Cuzco, and the week leading up to it is Cuzco week. There were parades and street parties every night:

Inti Raymi, recreation of Inca ceremony, was something of a let-down. If we hadn´t mistakenly gotten there three hours early, we probably would have liked it better. (Those orange chairs are $80 seats. We watched it from the surrounding hills along with other thousands of people.)

Koricancha temple in Cuzco - we could see where the Spanish built a church over the Inca structure:
Inca citadel and terrace farming in Pisaq (a town 30km from Cuzco):

Bonus Item: video clip of me trying to pat a llama.