DAILY PHOTO: Machu Picchu from a Distance

Taken in the summer of 2010 from the trail to Inti Punku (The Sun Gate.)

DAILY PHOTO: Overlooking Cuzco

Taken in the summer of 2012 in Cuzco.

DAILY PHOTO: Peruvian Andes

Taken on the road from Cuzco to Puno; July 2010

DAILY PHOTO: Walls at Sacsayhuaman

Taken in the Summer of 2010 at Sacsayhuaman, near Cusco

Sacsayhuaman offers some phenomenal examples of Incan masonry, which used no mortar and involved perfect joints that weren’t perfectly on the horizontal or vertical (i.e. the joints had to be matched up on planes of various angles.)

DAILY PHOTO: Volcanic Cones in Peru

Taken in July of 2010 near Arequipa

DAILY PHOTO: Urubamba River Valley

Taken in July of 2011 in Peru

DAILY PHOTO: Amantani Jetty, Titicaca

Taken in 2011 on Amantani Island in Lake Titicaca

DAILY PHOTO: Volcano Cones in the Andes

Taken in the summer of 2011 in the Peruvian Andes

DAILY PHOTO: Train Station in a Remote Location

Taken in the Summer of 2010 in the Peruvian Andes

DAILY PHOTO: Scene from the Central Volcanic Zone

Taken near Sabancaya in the Peruvian Andes in the Summer of 2010