Mom's Trip

In September, 2000, my mother and a friend traveled to Machu Picchu, ancient home of the Incan Indians in the High Andes near Cusco, Peru.

She sent back these photos to document Incan astronomy. Click on the photo for a larger version.

An Incan observatory, atop the mythological birthplace of the Incas.

The Intihuatana, a solar clock, carved from one stone piece, with Mom in the photograph for scale.