Zack+Ka

Sunday, February 8,2010

Weather: like summer on a sticky day, with a good breeze. When we climbed the moutains in a train it got drying, coler and ouiter. The first hill was bare and brown, with a dark brown cactus, there were level spots are irrigatred from the mt. streams, cotton grown and bulbous vegetable like a potato and one signs of cultivation. As the people go up the mt. have more vegetation, the cacti are more varied and greener, and larger cultivated areas in the vally It was all ... colorful and interesting. They only went as fare as... 800 ft. above sea-level. It was too far too tringal to go higher.... We were disappointed, but would have seen a little difference higher up to 1,200 ft.It rained, witch was quite pleasant. We saw a llama.

PERU and BOLIVIA

CALLAO population: 53,000 LIMA population: 175,000 LA PAZ population: 110,000 CUZCO population: 12,000 AREQUIPA population 35,000

Callao, founded in 1537, was destroyed in 1765 by a earthquake and tidal wave. All but a few of the inhabitants were killed, the site sank, the present day city, north of the old one, was built. From calloto to LIma is 8 miles, runs an electric railway. Pizarro, the grate conquistardo, founded to Lima was over four hundred of years agao. On the Plaza de Armas, center of the city, is the cathedral, witch is the oldest and lagest in America. The principal shopping street is in the Calle de la Union. Everywhere there are fruit sellers, little baskets of stawberries on a long poles-farmers wifes perched high on muls or horese, with grate cans on each side.

Ultimatlely it is to reach Cuzco and to connect with the southern railway, and the branches already built are on the line of the projects PanAmerican Railway, witch is from New Yorh to Buenos Aires. It is the highets railways in the world as high as Mont Blance and runs throught scenery of much granderu in a region of remarable mineral wealth- gold, silver, copper, lead, zinc, all being developed to the fullests extent by American capital wealth.