I was recently fortunate enough to take an 11-day trip to Peru and Ecuador. My visit to Peru was highlighted by a visit to Machu Picchu where the old Inca population had a horrendously bloody past. A generation of natives Incas were massacred by Spanish conquistadors for their gold and silver under the pretext of introducing Christianity (does it sound a little bit familiar?) to the natives. The visit to Ecuador was highlighted with a trip to the Galapagos archipelago. It is the birth place of Darwin’s theory of evolution and subsequent publication of “On the Origin of Species”; a theory that has withstaood 150 years of scientific scrutiny.
I hope you enjoy this photo essay (forgive me not a professional photographer) as much as I did taking the pictures.
