Aguas Calientes a.k.a. Machupicchu Pueblo is located 6 kilometers from Machu Picchu, closely surrounded by rainforest-covered mountains. There's no road connection, you can only get there by train or on foot. For most visitors, it's the starting point for the tour to the ancient city. The village is very well presented with many artistic details. Here I even had the chance to watch the development. 🤗🎨🐾
I've many more photos, but always nice and slow with the young sloths... ☝😏
🤓 On this day in history, July 24th:
In 1911, Machu Picchu was rediscovered by archaeologist Hiram Bingham. ☝

West of the village of Maras are these unusual Inca ruins. Their depth, design and orientation creates a temperature difference of as much as 15°C (27°F) between the top and the bottom. The purpose is uncertain, but it may have been used for agricultural experiments. It has been discovered that the soil of the terraces comes from different places. The Inca have produced countless varieties of potatoes, quinoa and corn. Until 50 years ago, potatoes and barley were grown here.

"Sunrise Flowers" this morning during my sloth wandering. Sloths are always in action, just very slow. This video symbolises the stages of getting up. It always starts with a blurry thistle.

Someone came to visit me again! 🤗
A little bit bigger and the color turns amber. I think this is a Planuncus tingitanus s.l., because of its habitat. They're invasive and prefer shrubs and trees near human settlements. "S.l." stands for "sensu lato" meaning "in the sense of". It's a species complex consisting of different species or possibly just one. So it's kind of working title, until molecular investigations provide new insights. But I can't even be sure if this little visitor belongs to the Planuncus species. Forest cockroaches often differ only minimally, such as on the genitals. However, it's my pleasure to serve as an insect motel. Feel like home, eat some dirt, stretch your limbs and just feel good! Sloth life!✌

Oh Arsinoë... 😄

Arsinoë and her two daughters Loki and Nameless 🙃💛

Julia. One of my drawings from 2008.

Sometime in a parallel universe. Such recordings succeed only sloths. If you move too fast, the universe is frightening.

Desert locust nymph (Shistocerca gregaria) in gregarious phase. An impressive and very interesting species. In phases, they are able to migrate in swarms up to 50 million individuals! They are probably the most dangerous migratory locusts, because they can cover very large distances. The spread and swarm formation is closely monitored because of the economic importance of the species to start early control measures. Their high reproduction rate makes them very interesting for feed breeders. Sometimes they are also on the menu of my geckos. I wanted to breed them by myself, but who eats a lot, sh*ts a lot! The strong and spicy stench was unbearable!

Android Update. One of my drawings from 2007.