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- Some villagers in the Peruvian Andes think of Mt. Ausangate (6384m) as a guardian spirit of their domestic animals.
- Salt is produce on a salt farm in Marasu near Cusco.
- The water evaporates to form salt on the salt farm in Marasu.
- In the valley around Cusco corn is cultivated and mainly exported to Japan.
- The Warasu area is filled with puyarymondi plants.
- Birds and bees are attracted to the spikey flowers of the puyarymondi plant.
- After the rainy season in April, there are many kinds of flowers, especially orchids, <br>at the historic Inca site of Machu Pichu.
- The sun shrine of Oyantaidanbo was an important religious center during the pre-Columbian period of the Inca empire.
- The stone sculpture at the historical site of Saiuti represents a spacial image of the Inca empire.
- About 50,000 pilgrims gather to celebrate the Koiyurity ("snow and star") festival, held once a year at Mt. Shinahara.
- The faithful pilgrims stay up all night pacing and dancing in a sacred field.
- The pilgrims camp out by the chapel. In the morning smoke rises from their cooking fires.
- Pilgrims on their way to the Koiyurity festival carry a Christian cross up the glacier.
- At the site of the Koiyurity festival pilgrims pray at the foot of a cross built in the snow 5,000 m. above sea level.
- There are many trees in the center of Kero village. The village is located 3,200 meters above sea level.
- Benita, a young girl from Kero village
- In the morning when the sun rises at Kero village the villagers let their alpacas and llamas out from their pens to graze.
- Corn is cultivated in the fields near Kero village, less than 2,000 meters above sea level.
- Once the corn is ripe in July, llamas bring it to the center of Kero village in August.
- Ilamas carrying corn through a fog-ladden forest called "the crying forest."
- The paths the llamas traverse are very narrow. The villagers rest when llamas going opposite directions meet.
- Along the coast of the Parakasu Peninsula, waves crash over boulders on the beach.
- A flock of birds seen in the Parakasu Peninsula.
- A giant pre-Columbian pictograph inscribed in the ground in the Parakasu Peninsula.
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