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2005-05 Huaraz II, Trujillo
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View over the Cordillera Blanca from the foot of the Pastoruri glacier.

Edel ice climbing an 18 meter wall of the Pastoruri glacier.



Being at an altitude of 5200 meter does not make it easier...

At the top!

Glacier tunnel.





"Access difficult but not impossible"...

The strange Puya Raymondi plants.

The world's biggest bromeliad(the pineapple family)

Grows for 50-100 years, then flowers just once and quickly dies.





The "seven coloured lake"

Trujillo plaza de armas. Got here on an overnight-bus from Huaraz, took a quick trip to the Chan Chan temple and then another nightbus up to Tumbes, and into Ecuador to Cuenca. Was in big need of a shower in Cuenca..

The Chan Chan adobe temple by Trujillo on the Peru coast.











The Ingapirca Inca ruins in Ecuador.



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