South American Journal

Over the coming weeks, I'll be posting stories and photos from Peru at my business blog: www.polymerstudios.com/blog. Some of the things on the itinerary:

• Hunting for megalodon teeth with Desert Man of Ica, who was recently written up in the New York Times. (Fortunately, we made our reservation before he became famous!)


• Shooting video in some remote (as in no electricity and little Spanish spoken) Quechua villages above Ayacucho for Fundación Comunidad.


• Meeting with Minka Fair Trade to see what interesting and marketable fair-trade products Peru might have to offer.


• Above all, showing my 10-year-old son, Sam, why the ancestral lands keep calling me back.

To that last point, below are a few glimpses of Peru's many landcapes. For a really nice slideshow, I recommend searching on "Peru landscape" at Compfight, a great tool for searching on Flickr.


Sunrise in Machu Picchu, by thecsman



Lago Huacarpay, by Don Ball



Dunes outside Ica, by Don Ball



Streets of Pisaq, by Don Ball



Islas Ballestas, by Don Ball



Miraflores by night, by Don Ball



Paccha River Valley from above, by Fundación Comunidad



Nanay, rio Nanay, by pierre pouliquin



Cordillera Central, by La Cronista de los Andes