Road Trip from Lima to Cusco

I picked up my landrover from the mechanics shop and Mairo and I drove from lima to Cusco. With a stopover in Palpa. This is a popular beach south of lima on a weekend it would be wall to wall people, on this foggy tuesday morning it was empty

Road Trip from Lima to Cusco

For a hour we pass large feilds of asparagus grown in peru sold in usa

Road Trip from Lima to Cusco

Near El Carmen we pass this Father giving his kids a ride on the donkey cart, we saw other carts stacked high with corn stalks.

Road Trip from Lima to Cusco

In the thick sea fog, all the cars buses and trucks were stopped, seemed to be a crash ahead blocking the road. everyone was standing off to see what was happening.

Road Trip from Lima to Cusco

We gave 3 Police men a ride up to the front of the line, where we could see a cargo truck had crashed with a large bus in the dence sea fog. The truc cab was wiped out, and later we found out there were 13 people riding in the back cargo hold, they got beat up good.

Road Trip from Lima to Cusco

This is the bus, its front end got smashed good, the guys is one of the drivers Obviously no hurt.

Road Trip from Lima to Cusco

After passing the wreck site the traffic in the northbound lane was backed up for 2km.

Road Trip from Lima to Cusco

Palpa, near nasca, My friend Jacobo has an old hacienda he turned into a bed and breeakfast. This is his 1945 russian 1cyl deisel engine that drives a 4 inch pump drawing water out of the well for irrigating the orange fields and filling the big pool.

Road Trip from Lima to Cusco

At the hacienda, bed and breakfast pasada del Rio in Palpa, I saw this cool red bird. some one tells me its a vermilion fly catcher.

Road Trip from Lima to Cusco

outside of palpa this is one of the oldest of the Nasca drawings made by the Paracas cultur, its an Iguana.

Road Trip from Lima to Cusco

grave robbing is a national sport in peru. this trave you can see the space the body was placed and the top of reeds.

Road Trip from Lima to Cusco

the rope was used to bind the funeral rapings the shards were cerimonal pots broken when the grave was sacked and now worthless.

Road Trip from Lima to Cusco

Cementarys all pillaged, thousands and thousands of graves all over are open with bones and pot shards strewn all over.

Road Trip from Lima to Cusco

This old boy got dug up, had his beural goodies stolen and his head tossed out to bleach in the sun, viva Peruvian National sport,,, HUAQUEROS, HUAQUEANDO,

Road Trip from Lima to Cusco

Fosilized Whale bones 6million years old. we were drivingover the ocean floor that had be elevated when the Andes were formed.

Road Trip from Lima to Cusco

this is where the whale fossels are in the middle of the desert.

Road Trip from Lima to Cusco

we followed the tracks across 30km of desert, it was like driving on the moon.

Road Trip from Lima to Cusco

Puerto Caballos, we arrive to see this awsome beach with only a few fishing shacks on one side.

Road Trip from Lima to Cusco

the sea fog was rolling in untill 11am when the sun came out and cleared the sky.

Road Trip from Lima to Cusco

This beach was awsome it had a cave on eather end leading to a small secret beach.

Road Trip from Lima to Cusco

It was like a cave a Pirate would burry his tresure.

Road Trip from Lima to Cusco

from the cave a secret beach.

Road Trip from Lima to Cusco

Mario getting his feet wet.

Road Trip from Lima to Cusco

Jacobo up on the cliff.

Road Trip from Lima to Cusco

Driving back following tracks in the desert