a short drive east from Cusco

linking Cusco with Paucartambo

around 3,000 metres

up the road from Cock of the Rock Lodge

daily visitors to the bird garden at Cock of the Rock Lodge - but they always look glum and nervous, and scratch perpetually

at Villa Carmen

at Villa Carmen

view looking north

approaching across the box girder bridge

Chontachaca

Chontachaca

Chontachaca

Rocatal

view downstream from my room at Paradise Manu Lodge

towards Amazonia from the Virgin Mary shrine

from near Rocatal

female, in the Rocatal area

on the higher reaches of the Manu Road. We cross this with hearts in mouths!

...from the watershed. Back again some day...

nestling in the Urubamba valley

massive urban sprawl filling the valley

Inca site above Cusco - classic Inca foundations