Machu Picchu Llamas
There are some tame llamas in the terraces above Machu Picchu - presumably to provide tourists with a nice foreground for the photographs?
October 31, 2004
Random post from the past:
Atacama Giant
In the Peruvian and Chilean desert, there are numerous, gigantic drawings made by carefully moving aside the dark pebbles thereby exposing the brighter soil underneath. The most famous examples of this technique are the so-called "geoglyphs" in Nazca Peru. As the area is mostly flat, these can only be appreciated from a plane! Did their builders already have the technology to take to air either with a balloon as some believe or even using alien technology as others imply? Or were the images only supposed to be seen by the gods or shamans who could "leave their body" in a state ...