We finally arrived in Cuzco, “the heart of America”. Our first day in the city, we met Don Néstor, an old soul, mom, and our official guide.
Diarios de motocicleta (2004, Walter Salles 🇦🇷🇨🇱🇵🇪)
Walter Salles: The little boy in Cuzco, we found him in the streets, or he found us. He came to us and asked if we wanted to know a little bit more about the city and offered himself as a guide. So we said, “Yes, but can we bring the Super16 camera along?” And he said, “Bring whatever you want.” And there it was. That scene, everything is Take 1. Nothing was repeated. (src)
Shot from the Sendero Inca (Inca Trail) as it enters the ruins of the Inca city. The first shot is of the sendero itself descending into the city adjacent to terraces used to supply food and fibre to the inhabitants.
One of the most distinctive Inca ceramic forms developed in the #Cuzco area is the so-called Cuzco bottle, also known as an aryballo because of its similarity to the Greek form. Ranging in size from four to forty-five inches, aryballos (or urpus in Quechua) have big globular chambers, pointed bases, and tall necks with a flared rim. Large urpus were used for the production, storage, and