Hey this is me trying to squeeze into the window..
All of this pictures are memory of Peru.
Friday, January 25, 2008
Thursday, January 24, 2008
Wonders of the World
In this video you can see the way Cusco celebrates..
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cAc5UEC0RjQ
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cAc5UEC0RjQ
This is a video of Gloria Stefan singing in Machu Picchu I would love you guys to see it I tried to downloaded by YouTube.com but I was not able to get it, so I want you guys to go on and watch it.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D14q9IKUkL0
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D14q9IKUkL0
Last day in Peru
January 10, 2008
It is so sad to expect something for some months and once you get it, it seems that times flies and is over now. Today we got back to Lima in the morning and made me sad of knowing that I would not be there anymore time went by so fast and we are leaving to go back home now. I wonder if I would come back to this country is like I would love to come back but I also know that there are so many countries that I would like to go there too, so I feel that I would not come back.
This has being the best experience that I have had, I had met great people at the best time, I have learn much more of a different culture and also of a culture that had connection with y background since I am Colombian, Leaving makes me so sad but at the same time happy because now I have more real friends and also a bunch of story to tell others.
Colleen and I spend our company the whole day by going to the Indian market and also to get my nails done, which was also interesting since they do it so different and a 9 years old child did my nails better than an experience person, we also walk around to take as many pictures as possible since I already had save more than one thousand of pictures, now all I want to is not erase them out of my memory.
I will miss even our tour director (Edwin) since he went out of his way to have us trying new things and having us happy and excited even for those mornings that we had to wake up early, thanks to him and to the people that attended and made our visit to Peru much better.
It is so sad to expect something for some months and once you get it, it seems that times flies and is over now. Today we got back to Lima in the morning and made me sad of knowing that I would not be there anymore time went by so fast and we are leaving to go back home now. I wonder if I would come back to this country is like I would love to come back but I also know that there are so many countries that I would like to go there too, so I feel that I would not come back.
This has being the best experience that I have had, I had met great people at the best time, I have learn much more of a different culture and also of a culture that had connection with y background since I am Colombian, Leaving makes me so sad but at the same time happy because now I have more real friends and also a bunch of story to tell others.
Colleen and I spend our company the whole day by going to the Indian market and also to get my nails done, which was also interesting since they do it so different and a 9 years old child did my nails better than an experience person, we also walk around to take as many pictures as possible since I already had save more than one thousand of pictures, now all I want to is not erase them out of my memory.
I will miss even our tour director (Edwin) since he went out of his way to have us trying new things and having us happy and excited even for those mornings that we had to wake up early, thanks to him and to the people that attended and made our visit to Peru much better.
Last day in Cusco
January 9, 2008
We are back to Cusco where I would love to come and live, people in here are so nice and they are so trust worthy also sometimes is bad since they would let their store by it self while they go and get some change and you stand there for almost ten minutes trying to figure it out how they would leave you by your self knowing that they have so many things in there. At night I decided to attend with a some friends to a karaoke night, we thought that we would find more people in there in view of the fact that is a tourist area, but we were wrong we found our selves being next to some Peruvian couples that tried to sing in English and they were really good at it., another appealing thing in Peru is that you see a lot of couples that show their love by holding hands all the time and other ways. After the Karaoke we decided to try to go to different clubs which made it easier for us since in each they would give a drink for free and also the entrance free so you ended up not spending much money. The clubs play a lot of Argentinean and Brazilian music since the majority of the tourist come from Argentina and Brazil, they also play some R&B and Alternative music. Regards everything the clubs were interesting because you would not see the same way that people enjoys the clubs in Peru like in United States, they dance without stopping and they rather dance with others than getting into the dance floor by themselves, which in New Jersey or New York’s clubs you would not see that and also since the people does not drinks as much neither they smoke. You would see more tourist smoking than Peruvians, is rare to see them smoking. Now is time to go back to Lima which means that is almost over.
We are back to Cusco where I would love to come and live, people in here are so nice and they are so trust worthy also sometimes is bad since they would let their store by it self while they go and get some change and you stand there for almost ten minutes trying to figure it out how they would leave you by your self knowing that they have so many things in there. At night I decided to attend with a some friends to a karaoke night, we thought that we would find more people in there in view of the fact that is a tourist area, but we were wrong we found our selves being next to some Peruvian couples that tried to sing in English and they were really good at it., another appealing thing in Peru is that you see a lot of couples that show their love by holding hands all the time and other ways. After the Karaoke we decided to try to go to different clubs which made it easier for us since in each they would give a drink for free and also the entrance free so you ended up not spending much money. The clubs play a lot of Argentinean and Brazilian music since the majority of the tourist come from Argentina and Brazil, they also play some R&B and Alternative music. Regards everything the clubs were interesting because you would not see the same way that people enjoys the clubs in Peru like in United States, they dance without stopping and they rather dance with others than getting into the dance floor by themselves, which in New Jersey or New York’s clubs you would not see that and also since the people does not drinks as much neither they smoke. You would see more tourist smoking than Peruvians, is rare to see them smoking. Now is time to go back to Lima which means that is almost over.
Free day
January 08, 2008
The trip is almost over and I am still confuse of what I want to do my project in because I feel that there is so much history of Peru and so many themes or contents that I would like to cover that makes me drive crazy.
Today is a day off which means that we can either go back to Machu Picchu or the museum, or the other plan would be to go and ride horses which I feel that it would be a waste because I ride horses in my grand mother’s farm in Colombia and I do not feel like I should spend time in it, in contrast I would love to go back to Machu Picchu if I had somebody that would walk with me towards it. Since it was a raining day I decided to just stay in the hotel and start working in the blogs and also I wanted to see more things in Machu Picchu since is such of interesting place and the recording makes it better for me to find people that I would interview, those that actually lives in here and also those that decides to explore in South America.
I was remarkable spending a whole day in a place that has so many things to do and also by going to the market that they go to and they have different fruits that in United States do not have like “granadilla” passiflora ligularis I decided to find out more about it so I look it out at Wilkipedia; “The fruit is orange to yellow colored with small light markings. It has a round shape with a tip ending in the stem. The fruit is between 6.5 and 8 cm long and between 5.1 and 7 cm in diameter. The outer shell is hard and slippery, and has soft padding on the interior to protect the seeds. The seeds, which are hard and black, are surrounded by a gelatinous sphere of transparent pulp. The pulp is the edible part of the fruit and has a strong acidic taste. It is very aromatic and contains vitamins A, C, and K, phosphorus, iron, and calcium.The main producers are Peru, Venezuela, Colombia, Ecuador, Brazil, South Africa, and Kenya. The main importers are the United States, Canada, Belgium, Holland, Switzerland, and Spain.
The trip is almost over and I am still confuse of what I want to do my project in because I feel that there is so much history of Peru and so many themes or contents that I would like to cover that makes me drive crazy.
Today is a day off which means that we can either go back to Machu Picchu or the museum, or the other plan would be to go and ride horses which I feel that it would be a waste because I ride horses in my grand mother’s farm in Colombia and I do not feel like I should spend time in it, in contrast I would love to go back to Machu Picchu if I had somebody that would walk with me towards it. Since it was a raining day I decided to just stay in the hotel and start working in the blogs and also I wanted to see more things in Machu Picchu since is such of interesting place and the recording makes it better for me to find people that I would interview, those that actually lives in here and also those that decides to explore in South America.
I was remarkable spending a whole day in a place that has so many things to do and also by going to the market that they go to and they have different fruits that in United States do not have like “granadilla” passiflora ligularis I decided to find out more about it so I look it out at Wilkipedia; “The fruit is orange to yellow colored with small light markings. It has a round shape with a tip ending in the stem. The fruit is between 6.5 and 8 cm long and between 5.1 and 7 cm in diameter. The outer shell is hard and slippery, and has soft padding on the interior to protect the seeds. The seeds, which are hard and black, are surrounded by a gelatinous sphere of transparent pulp. The pulp is the edible part of the fruit and has a strong acidic taste. It is very aromatic and contains vitamins A, C, and K, phosphorus, iron, and calcium.The main producers are Peru, Venezuela, Colombia, Ecuador, Brazil, South Africa, and Kenya. The main importers are the United States, Canada, Belgium, Holland, Switzerland, and Spain.
Machu Picchu
January 07, 2008
Waking up at 530 AM cannot be the best way to start your day since all you would like to so in vacation would be relaxing and have fun. In contrast to that we woke up at 530 AM to get ready because we need it to take the train at 650 Am in the train station called Perurail that would take us directly to Machu Picchu a place that we have all been waiting for. For that reason I believed that time did not matter what matter more was to get to Machu picchu and start exploring around.
The train ride was for about four hours that showed us beautiful views from Peru, places that you might not ever see anywhere else since we were in the Amazons of Peru that shows different history from their ancestors the Incas whom created Machu Picchu whom had another culture.
By being the number fourth of the top Seven Wonders of the World makes Machu Picchu a great place to come and visit not just for the fact that people believes in it, but for the fact that it has so many history and people are so interesting, I met a man that spoke Quechua, Spanish, English and Portuguese but he did not how to read or write since he never went to school and the little things he knows has being because tourist people has taught him, the other languages he started learning them because of the tourist too, he says that he wanted to welcome others and make them comfortable in his country.
Waking up at 530 AM cannot be the best way to start your day since all you would like to so in vacation would be relaxing and have fun. In contrast to that we woke up at 530 AM to get ready because we need it to take the train at 650 Am in the train station called Perurail that would take us directly to Machu Picchu a place that we have all been waiting for. For that reason I believed that time did not matter what matter more was to get to Machu picchu and start exploring around.
The train ride was for about four hours that showed us beautiful views from Peru, places that you might not ever see anywhere else since we were in the Amazons of Peru that shows different history from their ancestors the Incas whom created Machu Picchu whom had another culture.
By being the number fourth of the top Seven Wonders of the World makes Machu Picchu a great place to come and visit not just for the fact that people believes in it, but for the fact that it has so many history and people are so interesting, I met a man that spoke Quechua, Spanish, English and Portuguese but he did not how to read or write since he never went to school and the little things he knows has being because tourist people has taught him, the other languages he started learning them because of the tourist too, he says that he wanted to welcome others and make them comfortable in his country.
Sacred Mountains
January 06, 2008
The Sacred Valley was a really interesting way to get to know more about Machu Picchu since it is related to it, and also it had many things similar since they were both made to thank their Gods. In there the stairs were steep and interesting since they were exactly made to see a better construction. In there they had many llamas around with their owners trying to get the attention to people to take pictures with them and receive money. The economy in there is mainly made for people to work with tourist. By making an interview with a couple of children around Cusco and asking the about life in there and what do they want to be when they grow up and the only thing that they want to do is to become a tour guide, none of them wanted to do anything else but that they believe that is the only thing that gives more money and the one that they can reach for. Our tour director (Edwin) told us that it was much better that they had change their minds because years before all they wanted to do was to become like their parents, which it is not as much helpful for their economy.
The Sacred Valley was a really interesting way to get to know more about Machu Picchu since it is related to it, and also it had many things similar since they were both made to thank their Gods. In there the stairs were steep and interesting since they were exactly made to see a better construction. In there they had many llamas around with their owners trying to get the attention to people to take pictures with them and receive money. The economy in there is mainly made for people to work with tourist. By making an interview with a couple of children around Cusco and asking the about life in there and what do they want to be when they grow up and the only thing that they want to do is to become a tour guide, none of them wanted to do anything else but that they believe that is the only thing that gives more money and the one that they can reach for. Our tour director (Edwin) told us that it was much better that they had change their minds because years before all they wanted to do was to become like their parents, which it is not as much helpful for their economy.
Cusco, Peru
January 05, 2008
After only being in Peru for only one whole day it was time for us to pack up and head towards Cusco, so we had to wake up around three AM, Which for me meant that I was not going to sleep the whole night I decide to stay downstairs with some of my group members chatting and wondering about Machu Picchu, since we were going to be there in two days. Once we arrived to Cusco it seem that we were in another country in view of the fact that you would see more Incas or the way the airport it is set up less attractive compare to others, and you were able to see more animals and it had so many more natural things, as an example the houses are constructed with mud, eucalypt and water others would have some bricks with cement in the first floor and then the rest with mud and eucalypt, Our tour director said that they were constructed like that to keep the warm in the houses since they were not able to afford for heater.
The altitude made a big difference of the way you would breath and it would make you much tired easier, in addition to that the majority of the streets were hills not too big but it was kind of tiring walking in there, in the afternoon we were taken around to see Cusco more. One of the things that I enjoyed a lot was that since I got there I was able to conduct questionnaires for people that knew a lot of information about Peru, it was easier to do it since I was using the Ipod recorder.
After only being in Peru for only one whole day it was time for us to pack up and head towards Cusco, so we had to wake up around three AM, Which for me meant that I was not going to sleep the whole night I decide to stay downstairs with some of my group members chatting and wondering about Machu Picchu, since we were going to be there in two days. Once we arrived to Cusco it seem that we were in another country in view of the fact that you would see more Incas or the way the airport it is set up less attractive compare to others, and you were able to see more animals and it had so many more natural things, as an example the houses are constructed with mud, eucalypt and water others would have some bricks with cement in the first floor and then the rest with mud and eucalypt, Our tour director said that they were constructed like that to keep the warm in the houses since they were not able to afford for heater.
The altitude made a big difference of the way you would breath and it would make you much tired easier, in addition to that the majority of the streets were hills not too big but it was kind of tiring walking in there, in the afternoon we were taken around to see Cusco more. One of the things that I enjoyed a lot was that since I got there I was able to conduct questionnaires for people that knew a lot of information about Peru, it was easier to do it since I was using the Ipod recorder.
First Day in Lima, Peru
January 04, 2008
I still can not believe that I am in Peru I woke up and I realized that next to me I have a roommate name Colleen, and we do not anything about each other, but thankful she is a nice person and I can see that she would be a person good to stay in touch with because she is so nice. The whole entire day we went to a museum that showed us more of the history of Peru which it was better interesting since they had many sculptures that the Incas had made, one of the must interesting were the Huacos retratos since they sculpture themselves or those that were the must important in their society, also they had sculptures of different sickness that it was running in their period, Religion was also one of the sculptures they decided to make because they knew that others were practicing different religion and other Goddess from the ones that they had, and another interest thing that caught my attention was the way they made different things that they used in the kitchen to keep their food warm or to have a better use to it.
After the museum we headed to different churches that were catholic since in Peru the main religion is Catholic, one of them was Convento Santo Domingo that was set up for people to go in and have an experience of different painting made years before, it also show some of the history of how the Inca’s religion was also included since some Incas were introduced to Catholic religion.
At the end of the tour we had our own time to decide were we were heading, so Colleen and another friend name Nichole (nikki) decided to walk around a mall that is in front of the Pacific Ocean, which it was set up mostly for tourist because it had a lot of variety of American food like McDonalds, KFC, Pizza, Hoovers, and others. In there we started buying things for our friends and family and walked around for hours to see different things.
I still can not believe that I am in Peru I woke up and I realized that next to me I have a roommate name Colleen, and we do not anything about each other, but thankful she is a nice person and I can see that she would be a person good to stay in touch with because she is so nice. The whole entire day we went to a museum that showed us more of the history of Peru which it was better interesting since they had many sculptures that the Incas had made, one of the must interesting were the Huacos retratos since they sculpture themselves or those that were the must important in their society, also they had sculptures of different sickness that it was running in their period, Religion was also one of the sculptures they decided to make because they knew that others were practicing different religion and other Goddess from the ones that they had, and another interest thing that caught my attention was the way they made different things that they used in the kitchen to keep their food warm or to have a better use to it.
After the museum we headed to different churches that were catholic since in Peru the main religion is Catholic, one of them was Convento Santo Domingo that was set up for people to go in and have an experience of different painting made years before, it also show some of the history of how the Inca’s religion was also included since some Incas were introduced to Catholic religion.
At the end of the tour we had our own time to decide were we were heading, so Colleen and another friend name Nichole (nikki) decided to walk around a mall that is in front of the Pacific Ocean, which it was set up mostly for tourist because it had a lot of variety of American food like McDonalds, KFC, Pizza, Hoovers, and others. In there we started buying things for our friends and family and walked around for hours to see different things.
January 03, 2008
Sometimes time seems to fly so fast it seems that it was yesterday when I was wondering if everything was going to come out right for me to attend to the Istory to Peru. Now I am sitting on the airplane tired because the day before I could not sleep since all I was thinking about was about Peru, since I have a couple of friends that were born there but they never had the chance to go to Machu Picchu and now I was heading there with their perspectives also.
Once we arrived to the airport in Lima, Peru the first interesting thing that catch my attention was the way they had a bunch of ladies dress up in their skirts and nice shirt selling cell phones for those that were staying in Peru for a longer time, they had cell phones for about fifty dollars and with a phone card of two dollars, since the phones needed minutes to call others.
Another thing that catch my attention was the way people were waiting for their relatives with so many antions, it seems that they had not seen them in years and now they were expected to be treated like kings, they had posters, balloons, flowers, presents and other things that would make them happy to see them, there where also so many people waiting only for one person it seemed that the whole entire family would go and pick up one person.
By the time we got back to the airport we were welcome by a gentleman name Edwin Gradea that took us practically running put of the airport to head towards the Hotel los Embajadores, which they treat us so well and introduced us to the Coca leaf that made us all wonder if we shall try it or not, some where tough enough to try it and liked it while I felt unsecured so I decided to wait and see the consequence of the others. To made me more confidence about or tour director Edwin who wanted us to be introduced with the Coca leaf was that he tried it too and it seem to make others feel better, so I decided to give it a try that gave me more energy for the next day.
Once we arrived to the airport in Lima, Peru the first interesting thing that catch my attention was the way they had a bunch of ladies dress up in their skirts and nice shirt selling cell phones for those that were staying in Peru for a longer time, they had cell phones for about fifty dollars and with a phone card of two dollars, since the phones needed minutes to call others.
Another thing that catch my attention was the way people were waiting for their relatives with so many antions, it seems that they had not seen them in years and now they were expected to be treated like kings, they had posters, balloons, flowers, presents and other things that would make them happy to see them, there where also so many people waiting only for one person it seemed that the whole entire family would go and pick up one person.
By the time we got back to the airport we were welcome by a gentleman name Edwin Gradea that took us practically running put of the airport to head towards the Hotel los Embajadores, which they treat us so well and introduced us to the Coca leaf that made us all wonder if we shall try it or not, some where tough enough to try it and liked it while I felt unsecured so I decided to wait and see the consequence of the others. To made me more confidence about or tour director Edwin who wanted us to be introduced with the Coca leaf was that he tried it too and it seem to make others feel better, so I decided to give it a try that gave me more energy for the next day.
Friday, January 4, 2008
Lima
January 02, 2008
On the Way to Peru
Now I am here sitting down in an airplane trying to enjoy my life God I would love to just keep traveling and learning more things about life, I would love to make my mom’s dream in reality I want to travel as much as possible I would like to try to enjoy before I have a family and it becomes harder to travel. Life is too short, and from this year on I would like to start saving more money that way I would be able to travel more.
When realizing that you are about to travel there are so many questions about the trip, even the concern of the people you are going to be with, but I guess that others are in the same situation and they are also wishing to have as much fun as possible.
On the Way to Peru
Now I am here sitting down in an airplane trying to enjoy my life God I would love to just keep traveling and learning more things about life, I would love to make my mom’s dream in reality I want to travel as much as possible I would like to try to enjoy before I have a family and it becomes harder to travel. Life is too short, and from this year on I would like to start saving more money that way I would be able to travel more.
When realizing that you are about to travel there are so many questions about the trip, even the concern of the people you are going to be with, but I guess that others are in the same situation and they are also wishing to have as much fun as possible.
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