Photos

The coast at Miraflores and dinner beside the Huaca Pucllana pyramid.

Aug 4

Miraflores coastline at dusk

Aug 4

Huaca Pucllana, lit for dinner

Over the Andes, into the old capital — pisco sours, alpaca and colonial courtyards.

Aug 5

The Andes on the way to Cusco

Aug 5

Pisco sour class — salud

Aug 5

Three drops of angostura bitters, exactly

Aug 5

Grilled Alpaca...tastes like pork

Aug 5

Inca ruins beneath the hotel floor

Aug 5

Cusco courtyard after dark

Aug 6

The four of us in a Cusco courtyard

Maras salt pans, Inca stonework and the terraces of Ollantaytambo.

Aug 7

With our guide above the Sacred Valley

Aug 7

The salt pans of Maras

Aug 9

Climbing Ollantaytambo

Aug 9

The Wall of the Six Monoliths

Aug 9

Inca stonework, no mortar

Aug 9

Sacred Valley from the ruins

Aug 9

Alpaca company in Ollantaytambo

The citadel, the cloud forest and a well-earned dinner.

Aug 10

Us, at last — Machu Picchu

Aug 10

Llamas on the path above the citadel

Aug 10

Through the cloud forest

Aug 11

Dinner with the crew

Llamas, high trails and one last look over the city.

Aug 12

A field full of llamas

Aug 12

Llamas on the trail

Aug 12

A trail moment above Cusco

Aug 12

All of Cusco below us