Tuesday, September 9, 2014

North Peru: Beach, Desert, Mountains, Archeological Wonders . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .


We are taking a couple weeks off the boat and exploring northern Peru.  Currently we are in Cajamarca where many of the people on the street look like this:


Lady of Cajamarca ethnic heritage

We find the economy here includes production of wonderful cheeses and a gold mine owned by a company in USA.  The mine is reported as causing water pollution and I saw the visual pollution and erosion problems first hand.

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