Wildlife and Conservation

I did not know where to start this new page, should I tell you the names of all the places that we visited in a 3 week trip or should I let you muse through some of the images and see some of what we saw, too may images to show so here is a small selection. Without a doubt the highlight of the trip was to Machu Pichu, the lost city of the Incas, the Panama Canal was interesting but also Manta in Ecuador and the Cloud forest, the streets of Santiago in Chile as well as the streets of Cartagena in Colombia. Snow capped volcanos near Arica in Chile - magnificent as they reflected in lakes at 14,440 feet above sea level. We had not recalled visiting the Everglades in Miami before but life is full of memories. Places will come and go and fade into the past as we visit more new places. Machu Pichu will stay with us forever, we dreamed a dream and then went to see for ourselves. The emipre of the Incas was vast, but like many civilisations before them, went their own way into history. This is just a snap shot of sights and a flavour of scenery, flora, fauna, wildlife that we enjoyed.

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The images here are set randomly, we visited perhaps 3 or 4 Inca sites in the Cusco area of Peru - Lima was a very busy city and noisy, Santiago has class and clearly wealth in a wonderful part of South America. Manta in Ecuador as Arica in Chile were delights. The free earth tremor in Lima and earthquake the day before we arrived in Arica just added to the flavour of South America. The jar dropping Panama Canal was amazingly constructed and opened 100 years ago this year 2014. Now the work is undereway to widen the canal, another engineering feat. Cartagena was a wonderful surprise city, the colonial influence of the Spaniards here like mny of the other countries that we saw on this whistle stop tour. Then the Everglades, alligators, turtles and too many birds to mention. A wonderful experience.

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What Hiram Bingham must have thought when he discovered the Lost city of the Incas we cannot imagine. Here deep in the Peruvian cloud forest an Inca city undisturbed by the Spaniards and time. Only the jungle takes back the city. We have travelled many places in the world and are fortunate enough to continue to do so whilst we have the desire and thirst for knowledge, exploration and sheer endeavour to see what we can in our short stay on this planet. We loved it all and yearn for more.