South American Photo Dump

Hey, remember that time I backpacked around South America for three months? In the event that you doubted me (or maybe just thought I was hanging out at home and learning Spanish from bad novelas) here's a bit of photographic evidence.

The salt flats in Bolivia

Flamingos dining in a thermal lake on the Altiplano in Bolivia

An old church on the Altiplano

Those little colored yarn bits are used instead of branding

to tell the herds of llamas apart.

The SUV I rode across the salt flats, filled with kiwis.

So much fun!

Indeterminate dead animal

Oh, lack of depth perception. You are hilarious.

The city cemetary in La Paz, Bolivia. People buy a little crypt

instead of a cemetary plot and leave bottles of wine/flowers/candy/toys.

Handmade weavings and yarn

In the mountains outside of Huaraz, Peru.

Glacial lake

Ruins n'stuff. I became oddly immune

to all the architectural wonders after three months.

Some of the kids I taught at the orphanage. Not pictured: the masturbator.

The orphanage's soccer pitch/basketball court.

A jellyfish at Playa de Silencia. I poked it with a stick

for a good ten minutes while my friend flirted with the cabana boy

and got herself a free sombrero. Seriously.

This woman was making a music video.

For realz. Witness the little boom box!

What you can't see is the camera crew and her dance coach off to the right.

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