Sunday, January 31, 2010

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Barbara community in Peru and Bolivia

Good everyone! Here we are again the trio skull to tell you more adventures and experiences. The last thing we told you were our first weeks in Peru. To give you an idea, we need to put the blog daily part of Peru, Christmas in Bolivia, southern Bolivia and our short time in Brazil. The truth is that writing is not the same things shortly after live them and write them as we do now, but hey, I'll try to summarize as smooth as possible so as not to bore you too!
After our first adventures in Peru and a few days of surfing, we moved almost a week in Lima, home of a friend of George who gave us an apartment on the sea front and spent a few days of luxury at home . The reason to go to Lima was none other than go looking for Barbara Uschi's niece, who joined for a month to our trip. We now have four! We
to find Barbara at the airport and after a long wait, here she was, with their pints of American sports Maya, high ponytail, pale New York winter, heaters and yeeeaaahh ooooo I am from Manhattan! After a long embrace and a few tears for the reunion, we all went to the floor and began another journey differently. Uschi urgently needed a woman on this trip because traveling with two men should be easy! And Barbara was as if they had 3 girls come because it came loaded with joy, femininity, humor and battery for the month and much more!
first thing we did was go after Lima to Cuzco by bus ending nearly 24 hours. Cuzco is a beautiful city full of history and culture with millions of sites to visit. We visited the whole city and the Sacred Valley, which is very beautiful and full of Inca ruins, but best of Cuzco was undoubtedly the trek of the "Camino del Inca."
At first we were going to make an alternative to the original Inca path, because we thought there was no place for the real thing, but to get to Cuzco, we realized that the agencies still had some free holes and change our plans at the last minute. And the truth is that was a real success!. The trek is 4 days walking and three nights sleeping in a tent. We played a fun group of a Brazilian couple, Canadians and Australians in two days and we were all close! Along the walk you through ruins that are almost 600 years and learned a great deal about the Inca culture, which had its heyday in the fifteenth century just before the English arrived in these lands. And after 4 days walking finally arrive to the city of Machu Picchu and from there, the truth is I can not explain everything we feel when we saw this stunning city. Is simply spectacular and we believe that the fact of having arrived on foot still gives more value to this marvel. The set of ruins is beautiful, but is that where they are built is breathtaking, surrounded by peaks and cliffs, all in a deep green color and a 360-degree panorama that leaves everyone in a state of absolute shock and disbelief. And believe it takes to recover and return to normal. AWESOME! And we were impressed by the Sacred Valley and for all that we learned of the Inca culture in recent days, but this exceeded all our expectations! And George and I climbed the mountain in front is called Waynapicchu where the views are spectacular!
A part of the beauty that was the way it was an adventure with Barbara and Uschi. Imagine the two parrots talking and catching up on everything, after a year without seeing each other almost inadvertently break. The two laughing and messing around on several occasions. One of the best stories the starred Barbara while ago, balancing in a bath of a camp, he fell with both feet into a water. Do not ask me how, but fell in !!!!! Even today we remember and we die of laughter! Not only that, is that Barbara, when he wanted to do the classic pee in the middle of the bushes, just stepped on a last-Cagarro happened out there, of a size and freshness, or describe in this blog! For if with Uschi and things happen to us all colors, with Barbara the journey has become two or three stories daily! The group flip with us because we were laughing 24 hours a day.
Inca Trail After a few days apart made the trip. Girls with girls and children with children. A little break for 5 days. The girls were in the car with the Brazilian couple visited Lake Titicaca on the Peruvian side and then crossed into Bolivia to reach the Peace, while George and I stayed one more day in Cuzco curándonos replenishing energy and some stomach ailments then go to the Isla del Sol on Lake Titicaca in the Bolivian and later reunite with the children in La Paz.
La Paz is located almost 4000 m high and is a rather chaotic city. We settled in a hostel in the center where we use to do some Christmas compritas and from there we look for a rural house on the outskirts of town for Christmas. And it was! But before preparing for Christmas, we made a bike path along the famous highway of death. Yes yes, the name is scary and the road is really crazy. It is better that you see the pictures as much to tell you not what you believe. Luckily there is little traffic and is now safe, but does so only 4 or 5 years that was the road leading to the capital and circulating all types of trucks, buses, motorcycles, animals ... EVERYTHING! They are about 60km downstream continuously starting at an altitude of 4600 m to 1200 m to finish approx. Brutal! Above we had a cold that almost gives a patatús and get down and filthy but we were sudadísimos happy for having ventured to make this madness! Fum Fum Fum
! It's Christmas and we have to prepare everything! Yes, although I seem to joke, we found a very cool house in a village called Chicani roll cows price and cuisine lame but quite enough to cook all the dishes of a traditional Catalan Christmas. Do not miss anything! Broth, galets, stuffing, prunes, pilots, chicken, black pudding, beans, cabbage, ... If you have a while looking at the pictures for you to see as our "Cuines" Jorge delighted us with all the classic Christmas. Is that no one would say that we are in Bolivia!! The result was 4 of 4 unforgettable days together, filled with laughter, good food, very relaxing, some Christmas gifts and peace, much peace! But all good things and the day is over 26, Barbara took leave of us, then had to return to Lima and then to NY so again in tears, said goodbye and went back to be 3 ...
Well, I roll it up again in this post! In the following we will tell the rest of Bolivia!
Kisses to all and thanks for following despite recent have not written much!
For those of you time and feel like I leave here a selection of photos of the highlights of each stage!
Cusco Pictures , Inca Trail, Titicaca , Death Road and Christmas
Barbara, thanks for coming and for making this month one of the most fun trip! We love you !!!!! Uschi and Robert

Friday, January 8, 2010

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Arrival in Peru. Valle del Colca, Pisco and Lima.

Hello again! What you have started in 2010? I hope very strong and positive energy! We have much accumulation
of things to tell so I'll try to summarize almost everything we've done in the past nearly two months. Ana Arnau
When they returned to Barcelona, \u200b\u200bwe were Jorge, Uschi and I, again without plans, without barriers, and rush times. But soon come another visit, the last of the year. Barbara came to us, the nephew of Uschi! Barbara arrived in Lima so we decided to spend the Chilean desert to the Peruvian desert. We crossed the border by land and the first stop was Arequipa, a huge city in the south of the country, with lots of English colonial influence, which took the opportunity to visit some museums and some monasteries of the fifteenth century when they settled the church members English. I still do not give credit for everything I've seen and heard. The atrocities of the English conquistadors think it fell short of the atrocities of the church led by the Catholic Kings. One is ashamed of our ancestors ...
After days of acculturation and good eating, we went to visit the Colca Valley. We reached a small village called Cabanaconde 3.200m through a road infested with potholes through ports more than 5,000 m of altitude. From there began a 3-day trek across the valley. Contrary to everything we thought, southern Peru is very dry and arid, where precipitation appears very few times year, and where the landscapes are rather barren. Proved to be a grueling trek because the slopes were brutal day. Come on, that there were no plans followed ten meters. Everything rises or falls a lot and knees at the end of the day we called off! And the sun beat down on the neck at full speed! The best of the trek was to reach a town called XXXXX. It is a village lost among the mountains with a single place to sleep, where we met with 2 Australians and where the family served us incredibly well XXXXX. And fed us dinner, we were shown a small museum has mounted in a room where you can see and learn about their customs, some already forgotten and also see tools, types of crops, animals. But the highlight was Jorge and Uschi dress of local traditional costumes of the area. Uschi Imagine your six feet, put in a typical Peruvian clothing, which should measure a higher sixty!! I started taking pictures, dancing Uschi, Jorge making the whole family own and splitting with laughter, and poker-faced Australians watching the calico. The last day we had a rise of just over 1000 meters and we decided to hunt down the Australians, who were football players were Australian and square. We gave them a little more advantage for an hour of departure. We saw the distance and Jorge and I took all the pride and put the turbo. Not only spend 30 minutes before reaching the summit, but had to give them water because they were busted! hahaha!! English power! We notice that we were more acclimated to the altitude and fitter than them throughout the year that we had done in northern Chile!
After trekking, we went to visit the city of Pisco, completely devastated by the recent earthquake and visited the Parque Natural de las Islas Ballestas, the truth is that it is no wonder, but we met other travelers, and as always, we pretty well. We are near from Lima, the great capital, but there were still a few days Barbara came to, so we decided to stop at a beach surf outside of Lima to spend 3 days of heavy waves. The village is called San Bartolo, and is pretty ugly and there is little to do, so we spent the days of water to the hotel and the hotel to the water, trying to surf in the waves. It was the first time I surfed on rocky beaches and finally I lost the fear! We had a great surfing but also we get some booster shots, especially Uschi, who insisted on riding a wave in reverse and took a slap in the table in the neck that takes several days to forget ...
And finally in Lima! We arrived at the capital and went to the airport to pick up Barbara. We now 4 travelers! Once we were all 4 together, we went home in Rafah, a good friend of George who left us his small apartment on the sea front, in the best neighborhood in the city. We settled at home and we were like kings several days exploring the city, its museums, cuisine, its night, its hidden corners and prepare the next steps of the trip, I will tell you in the next post!
I let you some pictures of the trekking and southern Peru (Uschi not miss a local dress) I hope you enjoy them and leave us some feedback!
Kisses to all, and Robert
Uschi