Today we leave the Sacred Valley and the beautiful area around Cusco. It's been an amazing 2 1/2 weeks and has gone too quickly! Our two weeks of language school at Amauta were an adventure in itself. Ric and Cameron and I had 4 hours of class a day with two different teachers and we had the class all to ourselves. Since we're all relative beginners it was great. We studied together, helped each other and did our homework together. It's great to be able to ask your son for help! Cameron was great in the classes and was more interested and applied himself more than I expected. Now he can communicate on a basic level, understand quite a bit and has a good beginning knowledge of grammar and verb conjugation. His goal is to be able to speak well! I think that's great.

While at school and on the weekends we did trips out and about in Cusco and the Sacred Valley. I can't even begin to explain how much there is to see in this small area of Peru. Some of the pictures, I hope, can convey the beauty, history and immensity of it all.

So, today we leave for the Amazonian jungle and the Tambopata Research Center, some 7 hours down the Tambopata river into the heart of the jungle! No internet there so we'll catch up with you in a week when we get back!

Here are a few more pictures and highlights! Enjoy.