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After a short tour of Lima, we headed north for eight hours and 250 miles on the night bus to Huaraz, which became our jumping off spot to visits to the villages of Vicos, Huaripampa, and Huamachuco. While in Huaraz, we enjoyed great food and were constantly entertained by the El Senor de la Soledad Festival. We took an afternoon trip out to Huaripampa to visit with a weavers cooperative.

During our visit to Vicos, we lived in adjacent buildings. Small groups of us ate with and helped our host families. We hiked up to their potato and tuber fields to dig up the vegetables for a community feast called "Panchamama" feast or mother earth feast. Most of their marriages are arranged. They have no electricity or running water.

In our visit to Huamachuco, we learned that many supplement their income by providing guide and porter service to the tourists who hike and climb the famous Cordillera Blanca Mountains. Our highlight here was a hike up to Lake 69 at about15,000 feet where we drank hot mate' from china cups and ate meat and cheese sandwiches while resting by the "bluest" lake in the world.

We traveled by private bus to Chinchero where we toured the Inca ruins and visited a weavers coop. We had demonstrations of weaving and wool dying. Our lunch included the national Peruvian foods of potatoes and cuy or guinea pig.

We continued our journey Cusco where we saw many celebrations and enjoyed the food and nightlife. On our way to Machu Picchu we spent the night in Ollantaytambo where we unexpectedly came across a huge three-day festival that was ending that day. We joined the festivalgoers. There were more than twenty groups that were dressed in various costumes ranging from drunken cowboys,whip dancers, lawyers with very long noses, bejeweled step dancers, bolo dancers, to fancy hat dancers. There were also horse riders who tried to grab a corncob that was suspended over the raceway on a rope.

The following morning, we caught the train to kilometer 104 where we began our day hike along the Royal Inca Trail to Machu Picchu. We entered Machu Picchu through the Gate of the Sun in the late afternoon to see Machu Picchu for the first time as the crowds cleared out.

In the morning, we return to Machu Picchu to catch the morning light and the sounds of the flute playing by the Peruvian guides. We spend the day exploring Machu Picchu. I climbed to the top of Wuyanu Picchu where I was greeted by the local hawk that was more adept at catching tourists' goodies than field mice.

After returning to Cusco again, we then headed to Lake Titicaca stopping at Rachqui for a short tour and some strawberry chicha before spending the night in Puno. Our boat tour the following day included visits to the Uros floating island community and Taquille before arriving at the resort island of Suasi for the evening.

After returning to Puno, the group headed back to Lima, and I continued on to take a flight over the Nazca lines which are a series of geoglyphs in a variety of animal shapes that can only be seen from high overhead like in a small plane. These were created by the Nazca culture between 200 BC an 700 AD. It is just amazing to imagine how and why they created these shapes.

This video is 53 minutes long. Rick Hunt filmed it May 2005.

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From absolute poverty to absolute power! El Don is the saga of a common man with uncommonly fierce ambition who rises to rule an empire of unspeakable evil only to discover that the love he thought he had forgotten still rules what is left of his heart.



De pobreza absoluta a poder absoluto! El Don es la saga de un hombre común con una fuerte ambición poco usual que se eleva a reinar un imperio del mal solo para descubrir que el amor cual había olvidado aun reina en lo poco que queda de su corazón.

Message In A Bottle - A Journey Around the Earth Iceland, Mauritius, Tasmania, Australia, Antarctica, Chile, Bolivia, Patagonia music by Szabolcs Kovi instrumental music composed for the film by globetrotter and nature filmmaker Zsolt Marcell Toth If you wished to leave behind a message about the Globe for the coming generations, what would you put into the imaginary bottle? We filmed the magnificent landscapes of the Earth and combined them with relaxing music. The pictures are eloquent. Coastlines enduring the steady waves of the sea, cascades falling into massive depths, the glossy ice-floes of Antarctica, palm groves of tropical islands and the snow covered mountain tops of Patagonia all radiate and convey the ultimate harmony that we miss from our everyday life. This film is a picture album about the Earth, which should be remembered and passed over to our children. A clear and simple message about this wonderful world that we call our home. *** Some parts of Szertartas ('Rite') (2006), a musical album by Szabolcs Kovi, were used in the present album. Szabolcs Kovi: Born into a family of musicians I have been engaged with music since my childhood. I strongly believe that music is the ancient, most direct form of communication, which has always accompanied the spiritual rituals of mankind. I call my music spiritual world music", because it intertwines the atmosphere of several musical traditions including the Celtic, Indian, Arabic and American Indian with the ultimate aim of creating a harmonic and relaxing whole. Matching this music with nature images we wish to bring back the feelings you have experienced in your most beautiful dreams. Gliding above majestic landscapes you will feel timeless peace during this uplifting journey into the wild beauty of nature.

Wade Davis: The Explorer follows Davis from a river trip with his family on the Stikine in Alaska and Northern B.C. to the Incan ruins of the high Peruvian Andes. He is able to slip off the map for awhile, to live with the voodoo priests in Haiti, the Penan in Borneo or the Quechuen of Chinchero.

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This is the third release in Terra’s series, Spotlight on Chilean Masterworks. Silvio Caiozzi, now one of Chile's foremost directors, made Julio comienza en Julio under the Pinochet dictatorship when there was little production. In spite of that, the film has emerged as a timeless Latin American classic, beautifully composed with evocative sepia tones, astonishing locations, and lush sets that alone would ensure its survival. Set in 1917, this feature tells of a boy’s coming-of-age amongst the aristocratic, conservative, decadent upper classes. Julio Garcia Castano is a powerful, imperious landowner who is attempting to mould his son, also named Julio, in his own image. On the boy’s 15th birthday, he organizes a party and invites the local hookers over to "make a man of him." The plan misfires when young Julio falls in love with one of the girls, precipitating the ruthless intervention of Julio senior. Don Julio is ruthless as well in his dealings with the local church. His family once donated land to a neighboring monastery, but now Don Julio wants it back. Caiozzi’s atmospheric film effectively treats issues of social class, sex, religion and family. Selected for Cannes in 1979, Julio was named "Best Chilean Film of the Century" by the Municipality of Santiago in 1999. Directed by Silvio Caiozzi. Originally released in 1979. Spanish with English subtitles. 120 minutes.

Our Spanish Language DVD pack contains three great award-winning films, MADEINUSA from Peru, VIVA CUBA from Cuba, and CAROL'S JOURNEY from Spain.

MADEINUSA: Madeinusa is a sweet-faced 14-year-old girl who lives in a dirt-floor house and dreams of the world beyond the village. It is the custom of her town that from Good Friday at three in the afternoon (just when Christ died on the cross) through Easter Sunday, sin does not exist. On the eve of this time of small-town debauchery, Salvador, a young geologist from Lima, accidentally comes to town. The town greets him with curiosity and ire, then imprisons him out of fear that he will interfere with the festivities. But Madeinusa, ever curious about things from the big city, is drawn to him, and her fate begins to turn in unexpected ways. Winner - Int'l Film Festival Rotterdam. Official Selection - Sundance, Seattle and Tribeca Film Festivals. In Spanish with English subtitles.

"That [director] Llosa has never directed for the camera before is remarkable considering how accomplished the film is...." -- Robert Koehler, Variety.

VIVA CUBA: Malœ is from an upper-class family and her single mother does not want her to play with Jorgito, as she thinks his background is coarse and commonplace. Jorgito's mother, a poor socialist proud of her family's social standing, places similar restrictions on her son. What neither woman recognizes is the immense strength of the bond between Malœ and Jorgito. When the children learn that Malœ's mother is planning to leave Cuba, they decide to run away and travel to the other side of the island to find Malœ's father and persuade him against signing the forms that would allow it. Winner - Junior Prize - Cannes Film Festival. Official Selection - Toronto, London and San Francisco Film Festivals. In Spanish with English subtitles.

"Director Malberti has a simple, unfussy style that reflects his young heroes' clear-eyed na•vetŽ....." --Adam Nayman, Eye Weekly.

CAROL'S JOURNEY: Carol, a twelve-year-old Spanish-American girl from New York, travels with her mother to Spain in the spring of 1938, at the height of the Civil War. Separated from her beloved father, Carol arrives in her mother's home village and transforms the secretive family environment. Her innocence and rebellious nature drive her at first to reject a world that is at once new and foreign. But she soon journeys into adulthood through a friendship with Maruja, the village teacher, and a young local boy, Tomiche. Winner - Berlin Film Festival. In Spanish with English subtitles.

"A little gem by the name of Carol's Journey ... the personal message of this type of film drives much deeper into our hearts as the events unfold in such a manner as to remind us that life goes on as much as war comes at a greater cost than we tend to realize." -- Don Houston, DVD Talk

Studio: Vanguard Cinema Release Date: 10/28/2003