Several photos from the last couple weeks

Quillabamba, Peru... ¨brow of the jungle,¨ where the jungle meets the mountains. On my first tour with the orchestra:
A cool tree with a hair cut, in the main square (Plaza de Armas) of Quillabamba:

A view of Cusco main square, picture taken from around the corner from my house:

In Siete Culebras alley, with friends from the orchestra, plus Johann, a very good Peruvian cellist who lives and plays in Germany, who gave me a very good cello lesson! This was after we went out for a bottle of pisco in one of the nicest restaurants in Cusco. (Pol- principal violinist, Johann, Theo- conductor of the orchestra, me, Francisco- principal cellist, my stand partner)

A view from the roof of our hotel in Arequipa, on my second tour with the orchestra to play in the National Orchestra Festival, in the Cathedral of Arequipa:

The organ in the Cathdral of Arequipa, WOW! The Arequipan men love to brag that they have the largest organ in Peru, hahaa.

Inside La Compania de Jesus Church in Arequipa, a very elaborate altar:

Stopping for a drink after sight-seeing in Arequipa, together with Pepe, the guest cellist in the concert and a friend of Theo and Fernando from the Conservatory in Lima. We had to try the local beer, Arequipena, but decided that the beer from Cusco, Cusquena, was better:

The mayor of Arequipa gave us a bus to go sight-seeing around town, which included going to a lot of ¨look-outs¨ which were very scenic:

Some orchestra folk, with Misti volcano in the background (Pol- concertmaster, Theo- conductor, Fernando- violin, me, Francisco- cello, Yuset- cello, Cristian- violin):

The orchestra (minus a couple people who went to visit their families in Arequipa):

Another cool church- they build with a lot of volcanic stone and pumice:

A view from another one of the look-outs that they took us to. This one was really tall:

Yuset and I being goofy: