More about Peru.

The Andes 400m metres up. This is a very typical landscape barren and desert like.

The Andean Condor in full flight, taken in the valle de Condor (Condor Valley , in la canon de Colca (Colca Canyon) near Arequipa.

The Cathedral in the centre of Cuzco. Every town has a large Catholic Cathedral.

Us at the most famous site in South America, so they say (who are they?) - Machu Picchu, which means 'big mountain' in Quechua, the language spoken by the descendants of he Incas. Not quite so spectacular now in name is it? The famous mountain you can see is not actually Machu Picchu but Wayan Picchu, little mountain. Machu is behind, which we never saw because it was cloudy. Next time hey? When one of our lovely readers comes out to see us.

This is a classic shot of a Lima Shanty town shack. This is actually a picture of the house of our good friends Richar and Marinella, (I've spelt those correctly by the way) and their daughters, Angie, and Anita, (or little Ana). It is very normal to add '-ita' or '-ito' on the end of people's names. ('-ita' for women and '-ito' for men). Therefore Anna was called Anita and Daniel will be called Danielito. It is a very cute way of talking, but only refers to those smaller or younger than yourself. Therefore due to my size and also social standing (as a white western male missionary i am the ultimate power, scary I know and what a responsibilty) i was never called Markito. My more preferred name was gordito, (little fatty). Doesn't sound so bad in Spanish, but does in English!