PERU 4K UHD | cinematic travel video
This is a cinematic travel video of our adventure in Lima, Cusco, Machu Picchu, Iquitos and the Amazon rainforest, Peru!
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We began our adventure in the Barranco District of Lima, at the guesthouse of artist Victor Delfin! Delfín, born in 1927, has a worldwide reputation; his art has been exhibited across South and North America and is housed in major museum and private collections. His son runs the guesthouse on his estate, filled with his paintings and sculptures and overlooking the ocean, at Second Home Peru.
Next was the town of Cusco, Peru, high (11,000 ft/3,400 meters) in the Andes mountains. It was so high, in fact, that we were prescribed altitude sickness prevention medication called Acetazolamide by our health care provider.
We stayed in the popular San Blas District, at the Tariq Boutique Hotel. The views of Cusco from our room were incredible! We walked down the stairs and cobblestone streets each day to the Plaza de Armas de Cusco. The Plaza is beautiful, especially at night! A statue of Pachacuti can be found in the plaza atop a fountain. Pachacuti was the ninth ruler of the Kingdom of Cusco and later the Emperor of the Inca Empire. Also around the plaza is the Iglesia de la Companía de Jesús and the Cathedral of Cusco.
Chincheros has a population of about 50,000. The inhabitants are mainly indigenous citizen of Chanka descent, primarily speaking the Quechuan language. The women of Chincheros all dress in the same clothing and colors! We visited a weaving cooperative where they demonstrated the yarn making, dying, and weaving processes. And the white church of Chincheros, built in 1607 by colonial Spaniards, lies upon the ruins of the Incas. It is believed the Incas deliberately destroyed their constructions so the Spanish could not utilize them.
Machu Picchu is awesome! Wow! Some archeologists believe that Machu Picchu was constructed as an estate for the Inca emperor Pachacuti (1438–1472). In 1911 American historian and explorer Hiram Bingham traveled the region looking for the old Inca capital and was led to Machu Picchu by a villager, Melchor Arteaga. Today, Machu Picchu receives over half a million visitors each year.
Our final destination was the Amazon rainforest via the city of Iquitos, Peru. From Iquitos were were taken deep into the Amazon by Amazonia Expeditions, which has two lodges: Tahuayo Lodge and the Amazon Research Center.
We had excellent wildlife opportunities, and spotted pigmy marmosets, woolly monkeys, pink dolphins, kingfishers, hawks, cara caras, blue and yellow macaws, giant river otter, three-toed sloth, common potoo, and hoatzin. We also went piranha fishing, and visited a nearby village. Trekking through the Amazon jungle is definitely not easy. The combination of deep mud, fallen trees, and thorns creates an obstacle course worthy of the most difficult courses in the world!
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Footage includes:
The artwork of Victor Delfin, Salineras Maras salt flats, El Turco barbershop, a little boy at Plaza Barranco, Cathedral of Lima at Plaza de Armas, women with alpacas in Cusco, Andean condor, the Inca ruins and white church in Chincheros, a little girl in Cusco, traditional folkloric dancers at La Candelaria in Lima, an alpaca, women in Chincheros, pan of the Sacred Valley of the Incas, wooden fluist and dancers at the Poroy train station, the Belmond Hiram Bingham train ride including live entertainment and pisco sours, scenes from Machu Picchu and Huayna Picchu, street market in Iquitos, men from Chincheros, feeding an alpaca, the plaza at Machu Picchu Pueblo with statue of Pachacuti, walking the alleyways of Cusco, waterfall at Aguas Calientes, street scene in Iquitos, street performer dressed in gold in Cusco, the beautiful women weavers from Chincheros, The Amazon rainforest and Tahuayo Lodge, a three-toed sloth, a millipede, a common potoo, a spider, and sunset from Tariq Boutique Hotel in Cusco.
Music - Where the Adventure Begins by Tim Halperin
Video created using Adobe Premiere Pro and Adobe After Effects. Additional sound effects from Zapsplat.com.
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