Narrative - Page Seven

Day Fourteen - Friday, April 7 After breakfast, we left Lima on our flight back to Miami.  As we once again flew over the grand and glorious mountainscapes of the Andes, we could now look down and recall our vivid memories and impressions of the time we spent in the "Heart of the Inca Empire," and along the mighty Amazon River.  We arrived back at the Miami International Airport Friday night. We invite you to take a look at some of the photographs we took while on this excursion.  The photo pages may be a little slow in loading, but once loaded can be viewed quickly as you go from one photo to another.

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Weavers at work in Cusco.

A street in Iquitos.

Some scenes in Lima.

A footnote of interest: For nearly 90 years after Hiram Bingham found the fabled city of Machu Picchu, the many relics he brought back from the site have been kept behind closed doors at Yale University.  Now the Peabody Museum at Yale is preparing a permanent exhibition of the artifacts found in 1911 by Bingham, an Ivy League historian who also served eight years as a U.S. Senator from Connecticut.  The show is expected to open in March, 2002. Bingham, who died in 1956 at age 80, was only 35 years old and leading a Yale-sponsored expedition to the region around Cusco when he heard about "some ruins high up in the mountains."  What he found was a citadel of stone on a high plateau in the shadow of a mountain called Machu Picchu.