Til hamingju Ágústa fraenka. The Colca Canyon
Hae elsku Ágústa, innilega til hamingju med litla prinsinn. Verst ad tad eru 5 manudir tar til eg fae ad sja hann. Sendu mer endilega myndir a gudnystella@yahoo.com
English later on in this post darlings.
Solrun, takk fyrir ad vera dugleg ad skrifa, tu bara klappar fyrir mer lika tann 25, aumingja eg ad missa af 4 klst setu i laugardagsholl.
Sigga, eg var einmitt ad hugsa til tin, gott ad ferdin tin var skemmtileg, knus og njottu utskriftarinnar fyrir mig lika,
Mamma og Benni, eg saeki profskirteinid tegar eg kem heim, ekkert mal. Gott ad tid erud komin heim. Segid ommu og afa ad postkort se a leidinni. Maturinn hefur hingad til farid fint i mig
Agust, til hamingju med profin. hafdu tad nu gott to heima se komid, tad er alltaf fullt af skemmtilegum hlutum og folki heima
Pabbi, eg er ad vinna i tessu med euocardid, tad er bara varakort, visa er malid. Knusadu Petu og alla hina fra mer.
Halli, komin ferdaplon fyrir sumarfriid?
Emma, hapas du hade trevlig resa hem. Jag saknar dig. Jag hade det sa jattekul med dig och Efrain. Kramisar.
Anyway my friends. I have just finished a 3 days walk in the Colca Canyon and it was amazing, thoug getting up at 2.00 am this morning was difficult. But then I had a wonderful wal in the dark wiht my headlight (takk stelpur tad er ad koma ser afskaplega vel), with the stars above and the milkiway. i was 60 degrees vertical though so the walk was no picknic.
The canyon was beautiful, with some pre-inca ruins, beautiful nature and hot spirngs in the middle where we hanged ou one afternoon.
Pre inca times, 2 indian tribes used to live in the canyon, the Carbanacones and the Civayes. Both of them did a lot of agruculure, they practised cranial deformation, the carbanacones wanted long faces so they tied lont sticks to the sides of the head. The civayes did it on the top and bottom ( not so beautiful i must say) When the Incas came, they threatened to cut the water from the indians if they didnt obey them, and when they didnt the incas retunneled the water from the mountains so the tribes thought they had godlike powers and surrenered. So the Incas ruled them for less then 100 of years. When the Spanish came they didnt mess with the water so the tribes thought they were friendley and fought with the spaniards against the Incas. Then they got to suffer under the control of the spaniards whom were very cruel landlords.
Today the people of he canyon are mostly agricultural and lama breeders. They live in couple of villages, each with 50 people, and of course no electricity. The ones that breed lamas have no idea of the prices, so people from the cities exploit them and pay them like 10 times less. When i asked why nobody told them the answer was they dont care about money, they are happy wiht bread and milk instead. Many of the agriculture platforms in the canyon are not used. They government has tried to help the people to some extend. One president 20 years ago took a huge loan and gave to the people to improve the agriculture but they didnt invest in it but spent the money on cars and alcohol. alcoholism is a huge problem among the natives, more then half of the people in the canyon are alcoholics, scary. Then another president bought many agriculture mascines from new zealand, and gave to the people. They sold all the mascines to buy alchol and cars, according to the guide. So the present government doesnt want to help them either. The guide said the people think differently, they dont think past the next couple of days so they dont see the importance in investing.
Anyway my traveling group was lovely, to start with just me Barry and an american girl named Marcia who is an arceologist and i am going to visit her later in Bolivia.
Then we met up with the other groups when we camped and they were so funny. There were even couple of cute guys to flirt with. So the group was irish, australian, german, american, canadian , from the Netherland and then me. Very cool people, specially the 50 year old irish/netherlandish couple, who were amazing.
We are all meeting up tonight for dinner and a drink. We are gonna eat the traditional peruvian plate which is a guinney pic (naggris), i have been dreading to eat it the whole time but now i will. Hopefullly i will be okei, they serve it whole, with head and tail. Ouch.
So I hope you are all well.
Tomorrow i am off to Puno and lake Titticaca with Barry. 4000meters above sea level, it will be freezing. There i will stay 2 nights visiting a local family on one of the floating ilands. Apparantly mostly women are born there, it is a bit communistic society and the men go around knitting all the time. I am excited. The 23 I will return to Cusco.
A big hug to everygody.
Stella
English later on in this post darlings.
Solrun, takk fyrir ad vera dugleg ad skrifa, tu bara klappar fyrir mer lika tann 25, aumingja eg ad missa af 4 klst setu i laugardagsholl.
Sigga, eg var einmitt ad hugsa til tin, gott ad ferdin tin var skemmtileg, knus og njottu utskriftarinnar fyrir mig lika,
Mamma og Benni, eg saeki profskirteinid tegar eg kem heim, ekkert mal. Gott ad tid erud komin heim. Segid ommu og afa ad postkort se a leidinni. Maturinn hefur hingad til farid fint i mig
Agust, til hamingju med profin. hafdu tad nu gott to heima se komid, tad er alltaf fullt af skemmtilegum hlutum og folki heima
Pabbi, eg er ad vinna i tessu med euocardid, tad er bara varakort, visa er malid. Knusadu Petu og alla hina fra mer.
Halli, komin ferdaplon fyrir sumarfriid?
Emma, hapas du hade trevlig resa hem. Jag saknar dig. Jag hade det sa jattekul med dig och Efrain. Kramisar.
Anyway my friends. I have just finished a 3 days walk in the Colca Canyon and it was amazing, thoug getting up at 2.00 am this morning was difficult. But then I had a wonderful wal in the dark wiht my headlight (takk stelpur tad er ad koma ser afskaplega vel), with the stars above and the milkiway. i was 60 degrees vertical though so the walk was no picknic.
The canyon was beautiful, with some pre-inca ruins, beautiful nature and hot spirngs in the middle where we hanged ou one afternoon.
Pre inca times, 2 indian tribes used to live in the canyon, the Carbanacones and the Civayes. Both of them did a lot of agruculure, they practised cranial deformation, the carbanacones wanted long faces so they tied lont sticks to the sides of the head. The civayes did it on the top and bottom ( not so beautiful i must say) When the Incas came, they threatened to cut the water from the indians if they didnt obey them, and when they didnt the incas retunneled the water from the mountains so the tribes thought they had godlike powers and surrenered. So the Incas ruled them for less then 100 of years. When the Spanish came they didnt mess with the water so the tribes thought they were friendley and fought with the spaniards against the Incas. Then they got to suffer under the control of the spaniards whom were very cruel landlords.
Today the people of he canyon are mostly agricultural and lama breeders. They live in couple of villages, each with 50 people, and of course no electricity. The ones that breed lamas have no idea of the prices, so people from the cities exploit them and pay them like 10 times less. When i asked why nobody told them the answer was they dont care about money, they are happy wiht bread and milk instead. Many of the agriculture platforms in the canyon are not used. They government has tried to help the people to some extend. One president 20 years ago took a huge loan and gave to the people to improve the agriculture but they didnt invest in it but spent the money on cars and alcohol. alcoholism is a huge problem among the natives, more then half of the people in the canyon are alcoholics, scary. Then another president bought many agriculture mascines from new zealand, and gave to the people. They sold all the mascines to buy alchol and cars, according to the guide. So the present government doesnt want to help them either. The guide said the people think differently, they dont think past the next couple of days so they dont see the importance in investing.
Anyway my traveling group was lovely, to start with just me Barry and an american girl named Marcia who is an arceologist and i am going to visit her later in Bolivia.
Then we met up with the other groups when we camped and they were so funny. There were even couple of cute guys to flirt with. So the group was irish, australian, german, american, canadian , from the Netherland and then me. Very cool people, specially the 50 year old irish/netherlandish couple, who were amazing.
We are all meeting up tonight for dinner and a drink. We are gonna eat the traditional peruvian plate which is a guinney pic (naggris), i have been dreading to eat it the whole time but now i will. Hopefullly i will be okei, they serve it whole, with head and tail. Ouch.
So I hope you are all well.
Tomorrow i am off to Puno and lake Titticaca with Barry. 4000meters above sea level, it will be freezing. There i will stay 2 nights visiting a local family on one of the floating ilands. Apparantly mostly women are born there, it is a bit communistic society and the men go around knitting all the time. I am excited. The 23 I will return to Cusco.
A big hug to everygody.
Stella
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