Monday, February 2, 2015

My star trail from Machu Pikchu...

Traveled to the  Cusco RegionUrubamba ProvinceMachupicchu District in Peru over the weekend. A long and  arduous trip...I road the rickety old drain for hours. Made it the ruins. Met up with two German gay guys, named Udo and Günter. Ugliest names ever, My conclusion was that if you don't like kids, don't have them. Or at the very least name them.  They are adventurers, up for any challenge. We had are red bull energy drink and jager at the ready, and the influence of such led me to think ,"we should climb that mountain and take a star trail photo"....Udo and Günter were game...as expert mountain climbers , they knew a safe and easy way to get my fat ass up to the apex of the summit. and with intermittent stops too smoke, do shots and chuckle at my lack of climbing skills ,...we clambered  to the top...and made it to the zenith of the mountain that oversees the ruins. At the apex, I first noticed an out house(pictured). It was explained to me that American  explorers built this structure in 1911, after finding no where to relieve themselves after getting all the way up here...

It was strange to find three Buddhist monks praying to a Bougainvillea bush(pictured)....I asked why they were here,,,  tending too, and fostering this out of control ,and, out of place bush ?...their response" if you cut the bush ..it will cut you in return, thus it is, thus it shall always be.."

"...OK whatever....here's a star trail...




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