Tales from Peru
and Ecuador
and the USA

Tales

  • English
  • Dutch (slightly longer)

    • Pictures (kindly provided by Ms. Christina Stolte)

  • Cusco Overview
  • Hiking down to the Urubamba Valley
  • Proof that the Inca's weren't *that* tall
  • Jeroen, Lindske, some Inca terracing and my backside in Pisac

    • Levien's Pictures

  • Outdoor Spanish-classes at Urubamba
  • Enjoying ice-cream in Urubamba's main square
  • Resting on the second day of the Inca-Trail
  • Our little hiking-group
  • Bit of cloud-forest along the Trail
  • Lindske enjoying the view
  • Finally, Machu Picchu, after the mists cleared...

  • Nibbling reeds on a floating Uros-island
  • Levien and Chris chilling out and getting sunburnt on Lake Titicaca
  • Two very odd looking local people (also note the height of the roof)
  • Condors in the early-morning Colca Canyon
  • One of the big guys up close, looking for dead tourists perhaps
  • Mountain lake in the Cordillera Blanca national park, near Huaraz

  • Hanneke and Levien looking silly in the Ecuadorian jungle
  • Some kids at the "Chaupi Shungu" jungle-school, our voluntary project in Ecuador
  • Repainting the school
  • Levien being harassed by a local monkey
  • Raining-season, but the work must go on...

  • Group photo at the Aldea Salamandra project (and no, the bench didn't take our weight...)
  • What I saw looking up from my hammock one late-afternoon
  • Ever wondered why they call it Rainforest? Levien found out in the Cuyabeno Reserve...
  • One of the nicer creatures of the jungle
  • And another one... This little fellow was swimming in the same river as we were. Nice.
  • On the roof of a train down "The Devil's Nose"
  • Roasted guinea-pigs on a market in Cuenca (vegetarians and lovers of small furry pets should probably skip this picture!) (new)

  • Bunch of Pelicans in the Paracas coastal reserve in Peru (new)

  • View over San Francisco: Fog, a Famous Bridge and packet of Pringles (new)
  • Nice feature of Californian housing (new)

    • Pictures by Mark Hamers

  • Full online photo-album of Mark, one of our traveling companions in Peru and Ecuador
  • Our host-family in Peru
  • The Amauta Spanish School in Cusco
  • Going out for Pizza (again)
  • Cusco's main square
  • Yet another Cusco-overview
  • The Ecuadorian jungle near Tena
  • Little jungle-tour with Hanneke, Lindske and Mark
  • Our local mode of transport
  • Chilling out on the Rio Napo
  • Mark, Lindske and Linda making good use of local plant life

    • More and less relevant links

  • Amauta Spanish school in Cusco, Peru
  • Ecole Travel in Quito, Ecuador. They arranged our voluntary projects
  • The "Hakuna Matata" jungle-lodge near Tena in Ecuador, where we stayed for three weeks
  • AmaZOOnico jungle animal sanctuary, which we visited briefly

  • Online dictionaries English-Spanish, Spanish-English, Dutch-Spanish and Spanish-Dutch

  • "Tales From The Shanes", an account of my, er, adventures on the weird and wonderful island of Sri Lanka, back in 2000 (in Dutch)

    • Levien van Zon (levien@scum.org) - Last update: 2003-08-23