Anyway now it's time for the last Days... of my journey in Peru... Just now it seems so far away and I have to make sure that I believe it by myself that I was there... The autum/ fall is coming and it's starting to get cold and rainy the most days... So maybe this is the right time for warm memories..
I could say the 10. day was just a traveling with the bus through the country for hours. But it was more then that. We did several stops and watched again artifacts and archeological sites... from the time before the conqueror came...
The first stop was to watch a church, called the sistine chapel of Peru, which was not really to much to say.. it was really painted all over and was kind of beautiful.. of course not the way in Rome, but anyway it was very nice to see what they did without all that gold, which used to be there in churches and chapels... One o the guides told us the traditional background of the robe the Jesus is wearing and that they used to light candles of different colors... You know, white is good for everything, but yellow is for friendship and black against all bad... and so on...
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| hidden... so was I with the camera... forbidden... |
Next stop was that Inca temple - the Wira Cocha Temple in Raqchi...-
Also there where a lot of houses for the priests and helpers... to honor the god of sun... Looks absolutely different to what you expect from the Incas...
Then is was time to reach the highest point of the journey- 4313 km over the sea level.... and of course some shopping on the street and all tried to make a pic from that place as it never was able to get a thing like this... o.k. in the background you saw hills with snow and one single cloud and they where even higher and the air is really thin in that area for us who use to be more near to the sea level...
Then our way was for a long time just like driving through the states... just like in the middle west with it's steppe... little grass, some fields, more houses you think there would be, because it is absolutely not amusing living here.. well when it is about the luxury and the temp. I mean here it can get really cold in the nights in the winter time... and they just have those simple houses and just in the kitchen en open fire place and maybe little electricity... not much to live with... most of them are very poor and you can see it and then for us it was wow the Anden are very big, far and then somewhere on the horizon comes the hills.
With the time it started to bore you, because all the time you where busy doing something and then.. just sit in the bus and look out of the window, the sun on your face and .... getting bit tired...
Well, then we reached a village, of course next to an little archeological place... with a big church in the middle of this village, not to oversee and next to the market place. The church by the way was simple from the inside... that was enjoy able for some of us... oh there was a little museum, but some of us thought we did already have been in kind of to many museums.. so we decided not to go in....
Next stop was a restaurant called the -tourist restaurant- which is exactly what it is... just for tourist with a big buffet. The best food we ever got on the journey was here in the middle of kind of nowhere... next to a train line...
...and that traditional music... I already was so over...
But to be true after Machu Picchu I needed a rest day and it seems not only me... so this journey was quite exhausting...
Now came the last part... happy but before we reached Puno we drove slowly through Juliaca the town called the black market of Peru... because Bolivia is near it is really a big black market and you get here everything you want... kind of..... but oh this town is dusty, a lot of tuk tuks and people everywhere, never will be finished houses and like the guide told us, 90 % don't pay taxes... cowboy town you could call it..like in an western movie...
... so the streets are way to bad... that's why we had to drive slowly... a dog walks faster then we drove... Really no one had the need of climbing out of the bus. This town did not seem to be beautiful in any way... and here is the airport some of us will use? How does this look? Thanxs god they will bring us there... No wonder we see a lot of big Jesus statues and crucifixes... in the country... ;-) But also we see a lot of little crucifixes and oxen on the roofs of houses...
Puno itself looks very much like Cusco, just the town is build on the hills... with a view on the Titicaca lake and the late afternoon is filled with watching TV... Briget Jones 2....
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| my view from the room of the Plaza del sol hotel |
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| luxery on the inside... never judge a book of it's cover... |
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| isn't this sweet?! |
LOVE & LIGHT
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