Baby animals are always a winner, and the locals know it.
This picture was taken at the high point of the Cusco-Puno highway. At 4,335 meters, or 14, 223 feet, you’re only a couple of hundred feet short of the highest peak in the continental US, Mount Whitney. Even with a few days of acclimatization in Cusco at 3,400 meters, you still feel short of breath on an easy hike, or after climbing a few flights of stairs. We have new respect for trekkers in Nepal.
At this elevation, only quinoa and a few varieties of potato can grow. (Peru, as I’m sure you knew, is the original home of the potato. Thousands of varieties still grow here.) It’s mostly about cattle grazing up on the Altiplano–sheep, cows, and alpaca.
