No contacts via Couchsurfing not get me finally responded. The only one I contacted by phone in Lima and can not receive me. What to do. Go directly to Santa Theresa to join then Agua Calientes - from visiting the site of Mach Pichu I still have time, or so I thought at the time, or else take the time to a hotel arise and leave the rest. I chose the second scenario. Time to find a few hotels on the internet and here I am installing a few hours later in a hotel traveler in colonial style. I decided this afternoon to visit there the next day the sacred valley. I could get some information by visiting some agencies that organize the tour. The evening will be pretty quiet.
The next morning I decided to change hotel and neighborhood. I spotted an address less expensive in the Heights neighborhood of San Blas, near the historical center where the view over the city is beyond reproach. San Blas is the artist and hippie neighborhood of the city. In my searching said address in the narrow streets and cobbled district, a man offered me to stay in his hotel for a budget roughly similar to what I had set myself. I agree that mo impression on this man is rather poor. I sit, the room is good, and go back quickly to the green valley.
this day I'm not in my best mood. I could explain it. There are days like that. I pass the villages of Pisac, where a pre-Inca sites of the best known of the valley with Ollaytambo. But I can not stop. I continue. I spent the village of Calca and Yupac. All the roofs are made of pink tile that strongly recall those in the south of France. A moment of nostalgia in the air. Road faithfully follows the river ... which sank into the bottom of the valley. The mountains are high, the colors of adobe - that land close to the clay - and the typical dark green of the valley of Cuzco. Urubamba has arrived, the largest city in the valley, I changed course and resumed the direction of Cuzco through the village of Maras. On the road I stop at the tourist site of the "Salinas". More than 5,000 pools of salt up the landscape. It is absolutely beautiful. There are 100 000 million years, the sea was there, leaving his disappearance thick layers of salt. Of hot springs from the depths of the earth's crust have trained with them and rinsed these layers of salt that have risen to the surface over time. With the heat of the warmer temperatures and evaporation, layers of salt appear and are mobilized in these basins, the former have been build by the pre-Inca peoples there are over 3000 years. Peruvians still have continued to expand the park. The view upstream from the road is fabulous. I descended on the site to see more closely for two hours. I later joined the village of Maras. When we enter this village, whose houses for the most part are all built of adobe, it feels like time has stopped there this long. Some young people hang out here and there. Some old ladies are placed on their doorstep. Their faces bear the traits of a life of hard work. The streets are in land and for the most part deserted. A few miles away is the site of Moray. These terraces have the distinction of being circular. They allowed the Incas to compare the efficiency of crops according to the height of each level. Beyond the technical aspect, the visual result is rather beautiful to see from the heights. I will not stay long and the desire to return to Cuzco me again. On the way back the scenery is magnificent. The valley is only about 2500 meters. Vegetable cultivation is possible. As everywhere in Peru many plots cut the rolling plains. Basically Cordillera recalls that reigns over the scene.
Back at the Hotel Julien and Sophie I knew in the dunes Huacachina on the south coast, gave me their news. They arrived in Cuzco in the day and want to see shows. Call Sophie. I found later on the Plaza de San Blas. She lives in Cuzco for 4 months in a room in the neighborhood, including the city view is spectacular. We buy wine and beer for the evening. I found Julien with Sophie. He came to see him in the last days of his visit Peru. He lives in Brussels where he is a musician and works to live beside. I really appreciate Julien with whom I have many discussions, and just like me, appreciates the music world. We drink beer and wine while talking about our past lives and what inspires us in the present. Later we will go through the streets of San Blas to explore the night life of Cuzco. I'll end up talking to him on room for weapons before I collapse on the bed of my hotel room.
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