This was the first picture of the trip that I got yelled at for because I wasn't supposed to take pictures of this. Right after we landed in Lima, there was this duty free shop, and since I was very eager to take photos with my new lense (24-105mm Canon L f/4.0), I thought this was hilarious, so I decided to take a picture of it. You can even see the guy's blurry hand in the picture trying to stop me from taking it. If you can't read, it says "Smoking seriously harms you and others around you" and the other box says "Smoking kills". Isn't that hilarious?

Inside Cruz del Sur's bus station in Lima. It was really nice and very clean. Pretty fancy place. We came here to change our bus tickets to Arequipa.

Cruz del Sur logo. This proved to be the best travel buses in Peru. It is pricer than the other buses, but it is totally worth it. Trust me.

One of the chairs in our hostel in Lima. Pretty cool design I'd say.

For those of you wondering where my daily photos went, I've been real busy at work lately and haven't really found the time to post anything. I'll try and post something later in the week though.

Local souvenior shop in Miraflores. We bought lots of finger puppets here.

Lighthouse in Miraflores, Lima.

This was taken at a hot springs place after our hike in Colca Canyon.

Picture of a 1 Sol coin, front and back. They also have 2 and 5 Sol coins, which proved to be very helpful because everything cost under 10 Sols and no one ever had change. 

Taken in a garden near the place where I took the picture of the mountains.

Some mountains in Arequipa.

A woman setting up shop at a rest stop around 4800 m above sea level. 

So I could have sworn that I took pictures of a gas station and the prices, but I can't seem to find it. Until then, he's a picture of some good ol' American Lays at the Lima gas station by our hostel. At this point, I've been told to not take pictures of things twice now (including this one). Now I may be acting like a dumb American at this point, but what's wrong with taking pictures of some chips in a gas station? Will I get yelled at in America if I try and do the same thing? Or is it because I'm Chinese and I might be a spy pretending to be a tourist so the Peruvians are suspicious of me? Anyways, the prices above are in Peruvians Sols, where 2.85 sols are worth $1 US, so these bags are definitely not cheap, but I can say that they do seem to taste less oily.

Check out the octane in Peru! So high! I took a picture of the prices too. Maybe I'll make that my next post...

Awesome door across our hostel in Cusco. I love this blue door. This one has no post-processing whatsoever.

Our hostel in Lima was the awarded 2006's safest hostel on Hostelworld.com. This is why...

Stairwell at our first hostel in Lima. It was super cramped and we had a hard time walking up with our big backpacks on.

Good Luck Chuck

So I just finished watching Good Luck Chuck and I'm in that feel good mood that I usually get in from watching a romantic comedy. I also miss my girlfriend an extra lot too. One thing that suprprised me from the movie was all the nudity though. I mean, it was great and all, so I'm not trying to diss that or anything, but it was just unexpected. I guess I can had the pretense that it would be a regular romantic comedy and not end up having more nudity and "sex scenes" than Wedding Crashers. Also, I thought that the movie wasn't laugh out loud funny at all. I'm not sure if it was trying to be that way, but I only found myself smiling or smirking at the cute parts and just being slightly amused at the parts where it was trying to be funny. But maybe that's why it was a romantic comedy and not just a comedy, since I don't remember laughing that hard while watching Serendipity either. Overall, I liked the movie. I think it was cute, and I also think that Jessica Alba is super cute in it. Anyways, it's late, till next time...

Cute little Peruvian girl in Cusco. This shot cost me 2.5 sols (almost a $1). Basically, in Peru, they have they cute girls with cute lambs sitting around the streets with there mom in traditional garb and if they catch you taking a picture, they follow you until you pay. However, this girl was just too cute to pass up.

Shot of a church window in Lima. I really like how the bricks are arranged around the window. Again, this has been post-processed to draw out the bricks a bit more.

Photo Blog

So I've decided to make this a photo blog. Here's my first contribution, taken in Peru, by the place we reserved the trip to Colca Canyon. Note: This picture was post-processed using Lightroom 2, using the 300 color preset. I really like how this effect draws out the texture of the wall. So far, this is one of my favorite photos.