blue doors....

Peruvian woman in front of a blue door in the market in Pisac. July 2013.
Photo by Wendy Stefansson.

Posting recent photos of red doors in Tibet has reminded me of all the blue doors we saw last summer in Peru; in Cusco and in the Sacred Valley. I don't know why they paint their doors blue there, but I wish I had taken more photos of them....

Blue doors on a side street in Pisac, Peru. July 2013. Photo by Wendy Stefansson.

To see some of the beautiful red doors of Lhasa, Tibet, click here. 

To see more posts about our time in Peru, click here, or here,  or here.

weaving rainbows....

A Quechua girl weaves textiles by hand in the Sacred Valley,
between Cusco and Machu Picchu in Peru.
All photos by Wendy Stefansson.

On the sunny side of the Andes but only kilometres from the Amazon rainforest, the Quechua people create textiles that contain the entire rainbow.

Stacks of rainbows ~ handwoven textiles in the market in Pisac, Peru.

More textiles.

Beautiful backpacks.

bowls of colour....

Photo by Wendy Stefansson.

Bowls of watercolour pigments at the market in Pisac, Peru....

Photo by Ariel Tarpey.

Photo by Wendy Stefansson.

Photo by Wendy Stefansson.