Paz

It's a real shame US corporate media has always almost ignored S.America, except to repeat State Department manufactured propaganda against each and every leftist government there until it can be overthrown.

Try looking at photos of Brazil's Pantanal:

https://tinyurl.com/rrz2r2n

I nearly burst into tears seeing the images the first time I looked. Could NOT believe how beautiful it is, and hopefully, will be allowed to remain to be without big business destroying it, instead!

Dad was a civil engineer.

Got to see and experience all of those landscapes.

Nothing compared to looking up at the stars at night in the Andes.

It would see there would be a colossal overload if you saw the sky at night from Macchu Picchu or any other spot along the Inca Trail.

I got so curious just now thinking about how that would look, I had to go to google images, found these photos:

https://tinyurl.com/t6q2wla

Oh, jeez. Unbelievable.

You had a blessed beginning! Peru is such a mystery, and so much civilization happened there before the invaders.

Thanks for your post.

A photo I saw afterward:

https://www.pinterest.com/pin/410742428487749868/

I've been lurking for years.

Peru is one of those magical places.


The Altiplano, with no pollution, no clouds. And no humans is a sensory wonder. Lie down, look up and listen....the altitude causes you to rest and focus....you become conscious of your heart beating and each breath you take.

The desert coast...hot and dry and lifeless in the dry season, overcast and windy in the rainy season...never humid....always red sands...barren and lifeless until that rare fog came in and the dormant lichen came alive in an explosion of colour

The beaches ...endless pounding waves stretching as far as you can see... no gentle lapping....unforgiving force of the Pacific unless you are in a small cove....and the colour...a deep cobalt blue.

Finally, la selva...the western end of the amazon..raw, green humid...rivers, streams, orchids, dirt roads...papaya, mango picked from the side of the road.

Damn you girl for making me remember my youth!

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I especially like this one in the daily mirror page:

It would be wonderful to see in person.

Thank you, steventh.

Thank you, for posting, Judi Lynn.

She is a great videographer and captures some stunning scenes. She is now in Bolivia and I hope she comes thru this thing OK. Her home base is Holland...
www.itchyboots.com

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I'll bet she'll make it. She'll have some wondrous video to share, no doubt about it.

It may be safer there, virus-wise, than back in her home country.

Thanks.

Peru has shut it's borders. Her vid's are always a week or two behind her actual location.
She could just make a whole movie of her drone shots...
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Thank you for taking the time.

road in the top photo. Looks a bit...................scary.

Well, I TRIED to find a picture of a car going off a cliff, but it's getting pretty hard to find one that will post on here

So....

which might almost get the job done!

In the beginning, the deaths from falling from an incredible height happened to poor working men who felt they had to drive trucks for merchants over the mountain to sell their products on the other side. I think it's really too bad that if the merchants really wanted to make a profit, they didn't drive the stuff over there, themselves, or at least try!

Apparently most of the "accidents" happen currently to kids from other countries who feel their thrill-seeking needs can only be met by having a go at the "Road of Death" themselves.

Here's the google image page, with enough scary images to set some people's teeth on edge!

https://tinyurl.com/vfpxjw4

Here's a link to a brief summary of the road:

https://curiosity.com/topics/is-bolivias-death-road-still-the-worlds-most-dangerous-road-curiosity-1204812/

How bored could a person really get which would drive him/her to try that silliness? I'll just "shelter in place," thank you!