South America - Peru - Cusco, Sacred Valley, Inca Trail and Machu Picchu

We took this trip between mid-Sept to mid-Oct '08 and spent the first 1/2 of the trip in Peru...

NOTE - these pix are NOT in order but the title of each picture indicates where the picture was taken (you need to select the photo and the description pops up in the window title bar).

The title of each photo details where the photo was shot - you can see it when you select the picture.

aussie citizenship - Oi!

well, i took the plunge to got aussie citizenship 8 april.  i kept my application secret from kath until the day of the ceremony as she had been pushing me to do so for years (she got her's in 2000).

 

we had dinner afterwards with a small group of friends...

 

aussie, aussie, aussie!

oi, oi, oi!

hiking in marysville, vic

(--- this is a work in progress --- need to integrate the photos easily -- outlook express mail doesn't seem to do it...)

just a quick note on our travels this weekend -- we had a great time hiking in the hills around Marysville - a town on the northeast side of victoria. the weather was perfect. we wanted to start building up our mountain hiking legs for a potential trip along the Inca trail to Machu Picchu later this year... we were aching at the end of the day (about 11k) so we've got some work to do!

the forest trees were eucalypts with a lush undergrowth of large ferns - very tropical and unlike much of australia (including melbourne only 100k away)....

-- the route -- up to steavenson's falls via the tree fern gully, and return by the keppel track:

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---- on the trail:

--- steavenson falls:

--- Marysville vista

--- flowers along the ridge-line

--- "fraga's" -- a restaurant in marysville at which we had a great trout dinner that night (after limping back to our hotel room):

--- some more falls the next day - we drove mostly with limited hiking...

all in all we had a great trip -- i'm looking forward to getting up there again....