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Lima’s convento de San Francisco
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Interior of Iglesia de San Pedro
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One of Lima’s famous wooden balconies; this one is from palacio Torre Tagle
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Miraflores (an area of Lima) on a nice day
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San Pedro de Atacama and its characteristic dirt roads
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San Pedro’s hispanic catedral
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Aerial view of the
valle de la luna
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A closer view of the
valle de la luna
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Aerial view of the Valle de Marte, with the Andes in the background
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The valle de los dinosauros
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On the cordillera del sal, a chain made of salt (the table kind)
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Mike on the gran duna in the valle de la luna
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The valle de la luna approaching sunset
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KB and the Andes at sunset
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A rare laguna in the bone-dry salar (salt basin) of Atacama, fed by underground warm water
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Grass at the edge of the laguna encrusted by salt from the water
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The water is cold at the surface, hot at the bottom (ask Mike for the physics)…
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…and it’s easy to float with all that salt and minerals!
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The church of Chiu-Chiu, Chile’s oldest
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View of Santiago from Cerro San Cristóbal
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Catedral Metropolitana
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Palacio de la Moneda
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Is it Santiago or the US? KB at a Starbucks in Las Condes
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Easter Island from the air: the most isolated inhabited place on earth
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Closest inhabited land: Pitcairn Island (pop. 44), 1,260 miles (2000 km) away
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Mike and KB at the Moai’s quarry, volcano Rano Raraku
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Who has the bigger nose?
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Some unfinished moais abandoned on the sides of the volcano
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More moais
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KB in deep conversation
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Moais seemingly trapped by the ground
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The only kneeling moai ever made
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Mike and toppled moais; all of them were found like this at the beginning of the century
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View of Ahu Tangariki, one of the many altars where moais were placed
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Ahu Tongariki, the largest one
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Ahu Nau Nau’s moais with topknots
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Ahu Akivi, the only one inland and first to be restored
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Another view of Ahu Akivi
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Fisherman’s cove near the only town, Haŋa Roa
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Kids playing in Haŋa Roa’s beach
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Mike makes a friend
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Mike and KB (and friend) at Ahu Tahai
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Ahu Tahai and caleta
Haŋa Roa in the morning
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Sunset in town
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Mike’s dad recovering at the hospital in Milano, assisted by Mike's mom
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