When many people think of Peru, they think of the jungle or Machu Picchu, which is what I knew before I travelled there.
Now having been there, when I think of Peru, I think of the vast and incredible desert, enormous sand dunes and crystal clear skies. Yes Machu Picchu was amazing but I’m not so sure it was the highlight of my incredible trip there, where each day was so varied and we saw one amazing thing after another.
One day on our journey, in the middle of seemingly nowhere we stopped at a small museum. We were the only visitors and it didn’t appear there was much in the way of civilization for miles around. This small one room museum had some ancient desert mummies on display and outside, some excavated burial pits.
These weren’t the only mummies we saw, nor were they the only human remains we saw. From mummie “fluff” at one of the places we stayed and human bones on a sand bank on the edge of the road, it seems that Peru’s ancient past is everywhere you go.
I’ll have some more posts coming up on Peru in the next short while so be sure to follow my blog.
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That’s incredible !
It certainly was.
Your photos look really spooky and haunting…so evocative and can’t help wishing those Mummies could speak and in a language we could understand!
Thanks. I always am left wanting to know more about these people, what were their lives like? Who loved them enough to care so much about them after they passed?
I am so jealous. You just travel everywhere.
I consider myself very fortunate.
Scary looking.
I didn’t get that impression being there. I got more an impression of care for a loved one.
We are leaving for Peru in mid June and so this post jumped right out at me. I will say at the sight of the first mummy I jumped back from my screen. Absolutely incredible to see this and you are right, not what one thinks of when hearing the word Peru!
We firstly went to the Galapagos and I said when planning that, if we were so close to Machu Picchu I wanted to see it. Two weeks in Peru and every day was a surprise – amazing place!
More coincidence. We booked the cycling hiking tour in Peru and I said if we are that close to the Galapagos….yes going there following Peru. 🙂
Are you sure we aren’t twins? 🙂
Sounds like it to me! 🙂
[…] Its saving grace was the amazing Incan ruins just behind the hotel. We’d already seen the desert mummies so we knew what mummy remains looked like, and human remains and wadding were all over this place. […]