All American Kids Parade 2025

On Independence Day Winter Garden has a different style parade to many towns, where children get to parade, walking or on scooters or being pushed in strollers – all patriotically dressed; an easy 10 minute walk for us from home downtown to watch and enjoy:

And here is some video:

PERU 2025

I’ve made a number of separate posts from our recent trip to Peru / Lima / Cusco / Machu Picchu with Overseas Adventure Travel (thanks Ciro!), here they are in chronological order …

Lima

Lima to Cusco to Ollantaytambo to Urubamba

River rafting

Ollantaytambo Sanctuary (Inca ruins)

Hummingbirds

Machu Picchu Overview

Machu Picchu “within the walls”

Aquas Calientes

Cusco and “Temple Of The Sun”

Cusco Farmers Market and Moto Taxis

Cusco Tipon ruins and Saqsaywaman

Cusco festivals (and Ollantaytambo)

PERU 2025: Cusco festivals

Our final day, leaving the hotel after lunchtime to fly back to Lima and then home, needed some careful travel planning due to it being a BIG festival day! Here are some photos before we left:

I’ve not included photos of celebrations we saw earlier in the trip, in Ollantaytambo, so I will include them here:

I also assembled various videos I recorded of the celebrations, to a single YouTube video: