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In de kerrek, in de kerrek, zei de dominee...
... ook vandaan komt? Het woord 'aya' betekent 'dood' in de oude taal Quechua en 'kuchu' is dan weer 'hoek'. Ook telt het kleine stadje 33 kerken. We hebben er al heel wat gezien, maar wilden toch met eigen ogen die vele kerken eens aanschouwen.
I.v.m. die kerken: op onze wandeling kwamen we er 12 tegen. Meer dan genoeg! We gingen dus niet op zoek naar meer kerken, maar liepen naar het centrale plein waar de ...
Ayacucho - old Sendero Luminoso country
... town called Huanta where during the conflict years there were horrible massacres in the stadium. We went to a nice garden restaurant outside the town and had Cuy - the famous Peruvian guinea pig. It was grilled and came with a salad and tasty potatoes and was actually quite nice but there wasn't a lot of meat on the bones. the last stop on the tour was in Luricocha. This place is famous for their yearly Festival de la Palta or avocado festival. People bring in lots ...
Von Soraypampa über Salkantay nach Challway
5.00 Wecken, 5.30 Frühstück. Heute geht es zunächst von 3.800 m auf 4.600 m Höhe - dem höchsten Punkt des Treks mit wunderschöner Aussicht auf den Gipfel des Salkantay mit 6.200 m. Diesen haben wir gegen mittag erreicht. Auf dem Weg lag sogar noch a bisserl Schnee. Danach gings nur noch bergab. Nach ca. 1h gab es Lunch. Hier war die Landschaft schon wieder grüner und es gab einen kleinen Bach und Schweine. Heute waren wir zu dritt immer die ersten unserer Gruppe. So auch ...
One of those journeys you only ever read about..
... unless every pizza place was this bad), OK it wasn't THAT bad but it did not meet my expectations!
The following day we were debating what to do about our next bus journey, we were only half way through the Andes and still had another 22 hours to go, which was going to be just as bad as the first 10 we had experienced the previous day. We would have to change buses in a town called Abancay, before taking the night bus to Cuzco. On top of ...
Vicunas and viscachas on the way to Ayacucho
... are very elegant, with thin necks and their wool is said to be extremely fine. I was able to take photos of them against the snow line. The male gave a high pitched cry to his family to warn them about us. We travelled through the area where in the 1990s the Shining Path rebels had made travel so dangerous. You could easily see how they controlled the steep mountain passes. There was one part where the road was so bad I was ...
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