Hotel Casa Blanca
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Crossing the border to reach the Pacific!!
June 19
We woke up really early at 7am, in order to get some quick breakfast and be ready for our departure to Peru; Maruja, our group leader, had already threatened us to be on time otherwise she would leave us behind! It was expected that the whole trip would be an adventure and it ultimately proved to be one.
A 5-hour drive …
Cajamarca - where Atahualpa Inca got killed
... you can also see the old Inca Atahualpas bath very well preserved.
While we were in Cajamarca there were still demonstrations going on against the Conga project. Good news is that the project has now been put off for two years. People living in the area are very worried that the company that is operating the mine is going to pollute more water in the area. There are already problems with contaminated water and lots of children are ill. So everyone is saying: CONGA NO!
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Locals
... of the Incas. Atahualpa was
captured and the rest of the population fled.
Although the Inca leader tried to bribe his safety with quite literally a
room full of gold he was sentenced to be burned at the stake. Apparently
at the last minute he agreed to be baptised and his reward for that was
that he was hung. The Spanish then took the tactics of pretending to be
partners with other ...
Een warm ontvangst in Peru
... for permission. As always we are more than welcome. We are offered to use the shower and toilet at the neighbors (her sister). Our hosts themselves don't have no shower and somewhere down the hill is their lavatory, but her sisters is just nicer. As always we carry toilet paper and even wet towels. In their toilet no tracks of used toilet paper and a pile of election pamphlets. What a custom how terrible in our western eyes. As a present for ourselves since our ...
Über die Berge ins Inkaland
... beinahe ihren Hals beim nachguunen. Aber meistens, sobald wir anfingen zu winken, wechselte ihre ernste Miene in ein Lächeln und freudig wedelten auch sie mit der Hand...
In San Ignacio, unserem ersten Stopp in Peru, wälten wir für die Nacht einen Platz auf einer kleinen Tankstelle. Sofort wurden wir von Kindern umringt, welche sich besonders für unser Gefährt interessierten: "Ich möchte auch solch ein Zuhause!" oder auf die Frage, was denn dies ...
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