Sunday, May 31, 2009

Metalcore Blog Spot :d



Peru ...

- In meeting : Oh that's sure to Peru again, we want to begin our article by that ... For what is always emerged from the collected echoes right to left, that Peru was the country of thieves. Both say that, not content with staying 40 days in Bolivia amputating two weeks or almost our time in Peru, we arrived in this country with an image of the Peruvian inglorious kind eyes and sly knaves, the approach quickly and effectively focused the portfolio of the right breast pocket of the jacket located under the jacket, the wandering hand and morality on the far left (ie in the toilets for those who have not yet noticed that the toilets were always at the bottom left, but then I digress). Almost paranoid until recovery of ALL our luggage at the airport in Sao Paulo in Brazil, so we considered each as a potential thief Peruvian ... Yet, as and when the time spent in this country, we have learned that above all, the Peruvians were people of absolute kindness, helpful and caregivers, cheerful and attentive. All were good opportunities to exchange three words or even just a smile, all situations were good for giving advice or ... point out that our bag was open! And if, ultimately, Matthew will cop a thief and he will have to pay for the iPod and the hard drive stolen in Chile (from the time he was waiting to take a hand in the bag for revenge! !), we are honored and proud to announce that nous ne nous sommes rien fait voler au Pérou!! Champagne (Pardon : Pisco!)!!! Alors on se dit que c’est peut-être parce qu’on n’est resté que 2 semaines. Ou peut-être parce qu’on a toujours été très vigilants. Ou peut-être parce que des mesures ont été prises par les autorités pour lutter contre ce banditisme. Ou peut-être encore parce qu’on a eu la chance de ne pas nous trouver au mauvais moment au mauvais endroit. Mais ce qui est sûr c’est que, si l’on sait que le vol est bien réel au Pérou, nous retiendrons surtout la gentillesse des Péruviens, peuple hissé carrément au top 10 des gens adorables!

- In massage : Let us continue the good surprises of the trip: there was a massage here! I have not tested the Inca massage, made of cut stones used in hot star on the body (a little too expensive anyway!), But I chose the massage "basic" the whole body that was pretty sweet and professional. Lying on a table at the hole for the head, the only snag has been that ... the masseuse stank feet making it less enjoyable than expected massaging the upper body! But that's another story!

- In landscapes : Having visited qu’une toute petite partie du pays, on ne va bien sûr pas vous parler des paysages du Pérou mais plutôt d’une partie Sud du territoire. Entre étendues semi-arides et poussiéreuses et forêt tropicale à l’approche du Machu Picchu nous avons été étonnés de rencontrer une diversité écologique telle. Vous l’avez vu sur les photos : le Pérou c’est beau!

- En nourriture : relativement identique à l’alimentation bolivienne, le repas typique péruvien consiste souvent en une assiette copieuse et équilibrée (riz, crudités, viande) précédée d’une soupe. C’est encore une Once the party not vegetarians but that is beginning to "get the habit," Matt huh?!

- In music: Go! It's not like it was months in which food ... I'm back for the feast of cumbia ... The day I put my hand on the inventor of the synthesizer rhythms and pre-fabricated, I assure you this will be my small-time justice to me because frankly, it's abused this music! As the reputation of Peruvians big fans of pan flute ... Ben is a bit true ... On almost all sites, there was always flûtio someone to play! Quite hefty indeed because the flutes they play here are not the mouthpiece of our musical instruments to schoolchildren, if not a simple notch in the tip and then go play with it ...

- In dance : Fortunately, Latin America is also a major consumer of salsa, beyond having heard in the street, we were able to dance in a bar. Peru has, of course, traditional dances, but they are often seen at parties or carnivals and we have not had the chance to attend these events. Note here that it in June that most of the ceremonies and festivals take place ...

- On the road: We spoke of the death road in Bolivia? Ben here, we had good ravines too! Because if the roads range from vaguely passable track and bitumen foil, there are also many "routes" on the mountainside, "the expression is very poor! Basically, the pants sloggi is that string-string Expressway South to the mountain road Peruvian ... Help!

- In physics: good, you've all taken the subway in Paris, right? Oh okay, we can laugh too ... I regret to say that Matthew has a crush on Peruvian women. But j'm'en sheet because the Peruvians are not (all) without charm either! Dull skin, eyes slightly slanted (to the point still cause confusion at times with Asians), height and medium build, it is true that the physical Peru has its advantages!

- Silver : Slightly more expensive than Bolivia, but ultimately not that much, Peru nuevos soles pays (5 Soles for about 1 euro). We spent here 21 euros per person per day, or about 40 soles for a meal for 2, about 25 soles for a double room, 5 soles for a stamp.

- In any : We only had two weeks to enjoy this country who showed us ... the most beautiful sides recalled here that the Peruvians are currently fighting against their government hazarding his wealth, both cultural and natural - now water privatization - for easy money and now, to the detriment of the population and the future. This is reminiscent of the sellout of Cambodia we have seen the terrible effects during our stay. We therefore hope the people of Peru to emerge victorious from this fight ... Peru in all, these people, its history and its beautiful landscapes, is one of the pleasant surprises of South America.

Saturday, May 30, 2009

Samaire Armstrong In Jeans

CPFQ

Internet users saw a beautiful experience
past 3 months, I was fortunate to be offered to a conference for the Federation of Parent Committees Quebec. The funniest thing in all this is that I myself was part of my parent committee or school rather than my children.

I say I did it because I took part in cybernaut greatly expanded over time and I was forced to drop certain activities including being the representative of my school.

short, today was the big day of the conference which was held at Laval University in Quebec. My conference was held only once during the conference.

Arriving in Quebec by the gray and cloudy day. I see there are many world and it swarms. I'm nervous and I look forward to meeting people.
I took a bite and I run the meet.

That Madame Rosette for your speaker and your room number here, this is an auditorium and everything should be in place. It remains only to sit.

I go and I am preparing. At first glance, I'm glad the place even if the room was not air conditioned and I would say that it gave the impression that it was heated.

But hey, I settle, I talk with a responsible Congress and everything is fine so far.

People start happen ....

I decided to be the gateway for not being there before, and do the foot of the crane. I take this opportunity to chat a bit with people on their arrival. I am more and more feverish.

Here it is I have to begin 1:45 p.m. ET. I'm heading to the podium and commentator introduce myself.

I begin my lecture and I feel pretty quickly that people are following me ... they listen. Some are stunned, surprised, and some other completely subjugated to see how much work to do to give our young people the tools to function civilly on the Internet.

Throughout the conference, people are very attentive and the questions are in points.

Suddenly, I get to my last slide ... Oh no I tell myself. "Not finished!" J'auais probably continued for several more minutes but the time we had allocated was not enough after all.

is the end and I get applause from people, which make me very happy especially as the subject, admittedly is not always rosy.

Several come see me at the forefront and give me their recommendation, their comments, their appreciation, I am even offers to meet with students or parents in schools and more.

It was a great conference, I would say it was also appreciated by the public and myself. I think I delivered a lecture full of truths, surprises, nod and especially hope to have opened the eyes of some parents who have forgotten that the Internet is not just a black box but a playground which can be dangerous.

I hope to revive a great conference like this and I want to thank the organizers for inviting me FCPQ and parents have attended and hopefully it will have positive impacts the lives of our youth.

cybernaut

Thursday, May 28, 2009

Adult Animated Messenger

salsa Review of Peru Peru Machu Picchu

Here we are ... Another nice place to dance! If the Incas knew ...!

Ice Skating With Jeans



From Ollantaytambo, we will travel to this destination if what you expect and tourism to Machu Picchu. We were informed in Cusco to get there and it was best to go there ... well on our own. Indeed, the only possibilities are to go by train (which is around $ 100 minimum AR) and the road to a certain extent. As usual, we tried the local transport bus, not wanting to pay the full price of the train, operated by a consortium of multinational companies (we are not sure, but probably Chilean, American and German). Peruvians themselves for the most can not afford this luxury and all the money collected does not fill the coffers of the state, which is why we say the Peruvians, they encourage tourists to go by other means just to make history at the picnic what they considèrent comme pas normal, et comme on les comprend! Du coup, c‘est 4 heures de bus pour aller de Ollamtaytambo à Santa Maria, dans des grandes routes de montagne, pas très larges, qui passent près des cimes de neiges éternelles, d’habitations de bord de route dignes des temps les plus reculés, avant de terminer sur une piste étroite, où on aura tout le loisir d’admirer la conduite habile du chauffeur… En effet, pris sur le passage du bus, on a eu le droit de faire les 3 premières heures debout dans les odeurs d’un clochard, avant de squatter l’allée avec les sensations de virages et autres rebonds dignes d’un très bon parc d’attraction (un grand time!), before the cab driver (cumbia music in the background). We thus arrive at Santa Maria, where we have the chance to make a quick connection with a small takeaway nickel. A night run close to the cliff side, and we continue to trust the driver who regularly spends at least a tire width of the ravine ... It's okay, we do not see the bottom, is that it must not be dangerous ... He let go a few little injuries to relax! Finally we arrived in Santa Teresa, where we spend the night after a good half day trip. The next day, we still have a fling than 30 minutes to go Hydroelectric, terminus of the access road to the depths of the jungle. From there we will have to walk along the railroad to go to Aguas Calientes, about 2h30 - 3h. Programme: crossing a bridge, the greenery,
return of humid heat and birdsong surprising.

For me, this is an opportunity to spare a thought for my parents and Duche, probably been there, there are more than 30 years. At the time, the train would not be as modern and probably did not have the name of Hiram Bingham, discoverer of the illustrious city lost in 1911. In his time, what this trip had it been accompanied by a young man's native place, living in the site ... It came in subsequent years to the area to date, reviving. The site had in fact died some 200 years earlier when the last Incas used it as the last bastion of refuge from the conquistadores who had already destroyed the rest of the buildings of wild (and when we see the accuracy of these constructions, however, that they inspire respect).
very top, the silhouette of Machu Picchu
After our 3 hour walk, then we arrive in this city that seems full expansion, hotels and pushing it there, more than 40 dollars a night, fed by an armada of brand new buses,
greeted by a hundred riot police! What? There are still Inca who shit? They still want to break rocks, making prayers for the sun? Well it's almost like this: in fact the Indians, or native and are showing one-day strike and blockade to protest against the government which has the unfortunate tendency to privatize everything ...
And the last project concerns access to water (previously free)! The problem is that people here are well aware that once restricted access to water, life will not be possible, especially as people here have always worked with and how this sharing Could they pay the access? Ah ... the pursuit of profit. I look forward to returning to this company consumption and running personal enrichment!
Still, once the "Hospedaje" found, we walk a little in the city that is one big tourist stage without really charming. We prefer to bed not too late to be able to get up early the next day. But our plans change after a tropical storm type has raged for more than 3h. We will wait one more day in Aguas Calientes, under a gray us confirming the choice of postponing the visit to Machu Picchu, the opportunity to stroll, rest, dancing, but nothing too exciting. We go to bed early in anticipation of the long day the next day.
It begins with an awakening on 2 hours ... in fact after a 3:30 start 40 minutes after waking up! Once the packets and some cakes made in the abdomen, one hand at night in the sleepy town. We crossed the guides and drivers coming from hydroelectric, believe they commute every morning ... We left the city accompanied by a small dog who will follow us to the entrance and even the site of Machu Picchu after successfully cheat! We called "yes man" in reference to the noise of the single lamp that we have in our possession, since ecological recharges in mill and making a noise of thunder dynamo (ouiiiouiiiiiiouiiiiiiiiouiiiii!)! After 15 minutes on the track bus, we take the steep road that goes straight through the jungle to Machu Picchu. And both say that even at 5 o'clock in the morning, it is hot and the air is moist. We will put a little over an hour to arrive, where a French couple waiting, disappointed at not being able to enter without paying. For us, that we should give money to the entry that is paid to the government and people of Peru. For cons, the site opens at 6:00 and is clearly forbidden to enter with water on le site ; ça annonce une bonne journée de déshydratation ça! On patiente jusqu’à l’ouverture magique du site et profitant avec grand bonheur de ces quelques minutes où le site est totalement vierge : quelle chance.

Pendant ce temps, le soleil fait son apparition...

Nous sommes les premiers du jour à venir,
on se fait une petite salsa seuls devant le Machu Picchu
avant d’avancer de peur de ne pouvoir accéder au Wayna Picchu, petite montagne donnant sur le site et où se trouve The Temple of the Moon, which has access to a limited number of places per day. Usually the quotation is completed in the quarter-hour after opening. But today is a somewhat special because due to the strike of the day, we will be the 27 th and 28 (small dedication to the 28th anniversary of my mommy!), Provided that there is one since yesterday no train could not drive the usual flow of tourists. So we can go quietly for an hour to reach the summit of Wayna Picchu and see the sun take possession of the site dedicated to her honor.
For indeed, everything here is centered over rotation of the sun with infinite precision. Each stone has its usefulness to be guided by a compass point, a ray of sunshine to the summer solstice, which illuminates a stone giving the beginning of the harvest. The latter,
raised in front of the observatory, contains the burning symbol associated with the geography of the place, the three sacred circles of Machu Picchu, the mountain Putucusi around which organized the couple's circle mountains of Machu Picchu and Wayna Picchu and the surrounding circle of mountains.
The Incas had with their beliefs, knowledge matching the stunning astronomy European science at the time, their only problem was that their beliefs were not associated the same ... Seen from above, the site is of ingenuity and beauty in harmony with the environment without equal (and yet, Petra, it sends). Harmony brings together aesthetics, science, religion, architecture, know-how, functionality and compliance with the natural environment. Impressive. We will stay up there in full contemplation
in the presence of Zoe and Peguy, encountered in low and that for the first time since the beginning of the trip we had arrested "it is you who in different countries in the world?" It's pretty funny ... Travel from France and arrived here via Central America, part of the continent apparently less modernized, but also fabulous (Nicaragua and Guatemala in the words) will discuss a good time while the site remains empty to our pleasant surprise! After a ride on the heights, an attempt to catch a bag of Japanese tourists, we descend the steep and narrow path on the cliffside. On arrival, a small break on the lawn of Machu Picchu we will rather good.
Therefore, there are a few more people, without either the 3000 people daily, and we have the opportunity to try to observe, with the imagination of the Incas (not they chewed coca!) The Cougar head into the mountains, the condor of the rock (even the Incas carved terraces to reflect the folds of her neck!) and the mythical creature ("flying lizard") shaped lizard represented by the architecture of site.

The immensity of the terraces and the construction work is amazing,
small maze between buildings,
stairs now restored
sun temple and altar facing cut to the millimeter, we will take a trip to Machu.
I for one am a little lack of energy or a little sick, so I blow a little. We go to the bridge still Inca building showing the technicality of their construction because it is a passage passing through the mountains, restored to some extent, before he left on the side of cliff.
It was strong, the guys of construction at the time! Salsa later and it starts to be time to leave, because we have a good 3 hours walking.


The descent of the site without water is motivated by the images that we have fresh in mind and we continue to move forward on the back along the tracks. Because the day is ending, when we arrive at Hydroelectric, it's already dark for 1 hour, it is 16 hours we are awake and we are more than 7 hours of walking, not to mention strolling over Machu Picchu .. . Suffice to say it has full legs and at that time, Normally there is no car to Santa Teresa ... But here we are lucky because there is a single taxi waiting for an hour a group that will never come, but we will make the trip. Phew! We will attempt to even make the connection for it brings us back to Cusco, but the trading will fall flat with the arrival of the couple in the morning. Small rant about those people who try all the time to take advantage of the situation in Fyn, trying to get good deals, even if you spoil yours, yet you had shared with them for 3 in save! In short, we are already happy to eat a little, sleep in a comfortable bed, because it was not a foregone conclusion, but it took! The next day we put a lot of time to return to Cusco by taxi, ultimately, the same price as the bus (and say we were told in the agencies, there was the train!). On arrival, we cooked these two days and we'll do the luxury of not pick up on the 16 hour bus to Lima, taking an air ticket with departure at 3200 m and Overview mountains and a volcano erupting!
For the story on the morning of departure, I went to sell my fluff feathers plucked on the second hand market, where You can also find what you're stung in the city. After the sale, I put money in my pocket, external zippered fleece. Obviously, as the policeman told me less than 300 yards away, a guy makes me very cleverly pockets that I do not feel anything or almost, if not just his hustle ... Ah supported this pleasure that I I had to chopper him catch his hand, badly hidden behind him, take my money, before putting a shot in her mouth! He took all the others, without exaggeration, since I seemed to have breathing too plastic, but I am glad to have had a chopper in anyway!

Friday, May 22, 2009

Silk Pillowcases Macy's

Cuzco and the Sacred Valley

We arrived in Cusco after many hours on the bus (when I say many, is 16h more waiting for the connection ...) as well say a little tired and suddenly not very motivated to go to the meeting of a city. However, once the guest is found, we discover the streets and squares being more like a small town that a city. Pretty pavers, walls Incas unbeatable English (yeah finally done except that the walls "Inca" of the English city, they most likely originate from archaeological sites around, stripped for the occasion. So? Still classes walls of Cuzco?), colonial buildings, beautiful churches
and, slipping, beautiful patio homes popular with wood interiors and balconies. What a pity that we have made the lazy: no picture to show you all! Go, join us in the direction of the agencies to consider the possibility of a Choquequirao trek between (similar to Machu Picchu site discovered more recently) and Machu Picchu. First slap: it is 7 days minimum when we have only 5, missed the trek. Not letting us deter you, we head to the tourist office. Second slap: around Cuzco, we must pay dearly for a ticket overall tourism that leaves no opportunity to choose which sites you want to visit ... the ticket is expensive for 5 sites or anything ... Well! It has very little time in Peru, we accept the rules of the game Especially, it is clear that once again it is impossible to ask something that would emerge un petit peu du moule. C’est marrant d’ailleurs à quel point on observe ça souvent ici. Ils proposent des jus de fruits mangue-orange et fruit de la passion-banane, mais si on demande un mangue-passion, c’est la panique! Il faut pas s’étonner que la xénophobie fasse partie de ce monde quand rien qu’une demande non inscrite sur une carte déclenche la panique, remarque judicieuse de Matthieu…
Bref, nous avons donc accepté les conditions et commençons notre circuit touristique par le musée des Incas. On passe le coté céramique du rez-de-chaussée.. On aurait pu refaire la vidéo d’Alep tellement dès la première salle on a dû partir s’aérer out to motivate! But it's done on the second floor. The collection teaches part of the life of the Incas, and if we still feel a lack of culture on the subject, we now know more about the people colonized colonizer.
But what attracts us most is the culture in vivo direction then our first Inca site: Saqsayhuaman (I know, it's unpronounceable. So how to cope? Say "Sexy Woman" is fun and most effective!). Located on the mountain overlooking the city (just for its strategic positioning),
Saqsayhuayman was a temple du soleil avant d’être considéré comme une forteresse du fait de la lutte menée contre les envahisseurs Espagnols. Ce qui est de suite saisissant, au-delà de la dimension magistrale du site (le deuxième plus grand après le Machu Picchu), c’est l’art mis en œuvre pour sa construction.
Les blocs de pierre, allant jusqu’à plus de 100 tonnes, étaient taillés les uns par rapport aux autres en se basant sur la moulure en argile des pierres avoisinantes pour la découpe du bloc dans la carrière, puis le bloc était alors taillé sur place en fonction des détails de chaque pierre. D’autre part, les blocs, plus gros à the base and decreasing from stage to stage to remind the perfection found in nature, were erected obliquely to seismic action ...
While there, we say bravo. We return therefore
the site, armed with our book on the Sacred Valley to serve as our guide, and a hill arpentons randomly to find out more before this amazing site. Here, a natural waterslide is a joy for children, but not only!


Another surprise: you do not cease to wonder at the "slow" archeology, still active on this site, however, "rediscovered" many years ago. The story continues to surprise us ... The site name means, according to pronunciation, an esoteric meaning in connection with the puma, or (roughly) the condor happy as this place was the scene of the massacre orchestrated this which was once a stronghold of the last Inca ... Yet we face rises all the majesty and beauty of this site perfect.
Well OK, the real throne is there ...

There are even, with our book, we must admit!, There a snake in the stone,
is a bird,
is a fish!
They are strong, the Incas!
But we soon decided to leave this site to win one of Qenqo, a short walk before dark. Except that path, Matt finds a game of football to play immediately and spontaneously invited by local youngsters. Here we go (this is the case to say ...) for half an hour of sports, sun west,
and there, I'm glad, because this is the first time, hands on knees and shortness of breath,
my lover will feel the effect of altitude , an effect that I know very well from Bolivia!
short, after some not very pleasant under the trees, we arrive at the site of Qenqo. Passed the feeling of simple block of stone (predominant in accessing the site), we try to build the caravan of tourists who succeeded to make the photo Micheline hair restyled front of the stone toad (although with plenty of imagination sûr… Les Incas, c’est bien une culture différente et avec elle, toute une vision du monde!!), que Roberto remette ses lunettes qui ne servent plus à rien vue la pénombre pour se faire tirer le portrait sur le trône… Vous l’aurez compris, le seul intérêt des groupes de touristes pour nous, c’est définitivement l’absorption de quelques commentaires ça et là pour en apprendre davantage sur le site. Résultat la pierre s‘anime : là un autel des sacrifices, là une fontaine, là une zone astronomique. Poursuivant notre découverte du site par la lecture des informations données par notre bouquin, on avouera avoir retenu exclusivement que le site was an esoteric absolute perfection of the symbolism is absolutely dedicated to ... impervious to our European minds! We did not understand the layers of explanation on the lines that appear over time, but reported to the outer space into believing a spaceship meet soon!
But the sun goes down and we come back down to Cuzco. The next day we enter the sacred valley ... After struggling a bit to get the right bus, we go to Pisac, its traditional market and its Inca ruins. We were told that this market was a place of exchange, barter, because of la rencontre entre les producteurs de produits frais des bas et l’artisanat des hauts. Mais à défaut d’intercambio, nous trouvons surtout un marché d’artisanat très touristique, avec interpellations en anglais tous les mètres et prix indiquant clairement qu’ici, ils ne sont pas là pour enfiler des perles. Mais vous connaissez déjà notre grande capacité d’adaptation en matière d’économie régionale et notre bonté n’ayant d’égale que notre souplesse, nous troquons l’option on-laisse-un-sac-à-Cuzco-pour-voyager-léger contre sa concurrente on-se-blinde-d’artisanat-à-ramener-en-France… Quel talent! Ben oui et puis avec all that, we also placed intercambio serving time, are trading at the same time the weather this morning for the market covered against the first drops of rain to go to the site ... No really, well done! And yet we learn that no less than an hour's climb ahead,
through farmland, leading to some ruins the rhythm of the storm that thunders in the distance and sends the ominous dark gray clouds. Pisac is definitely a place amazing. Here were centralized administrative tasks and the attic area on the mountains overlooking the valley and its cultures below.
The ruins, though actually fairly well preserved (it should still be using the book and our imagination to visualize what the site at the time of the Incas), depict the entire organization knew that demonstrate the Incas. The terraces on the other hand came from the ingenuity of the Incas land, the fruits of advanced technological research and implemented to create ecosystems that can withstand cold, wind and irrigation problems.
This incredible technology, coupled with une sélection scrupuleuse des semences, a permis aux Incas de développer par exemple pas moins de 17 variétés de maïs dans la zone!
Au bout du chemin, traversant un tunnel et passant une porte Inca, nous arrivons finalement au cœur du site pendant que le chœur de l’orage nous nargue de sa voix puissante. Succession d’habitations,
fontaines au système ingénieux dont l’efficacité à traversé les âges, bains, les constructions défient le temps pour nous donner une vision peut-être plus précise du système Inca.
Seules les perles du tonnerre nous incitent à partir, preferring taxi (negotiated for several minutes during a good portion of fun with the drivers, not fooled by their own price!) to the wet descent by the same route.
Below, we end our shopping and enjoy an incredible opportunity to find a bus to Ollantaytambo in 10 minutes ... What timing!
We reach this fourth Inca site only an hour bus a little further into the valley, arriving at dusk, just in time to find a great address, hostal El Tambo - Matacuy, located one cuadra and half from the main square and offering a room in a nice house, terrace mezzanine overlooking a lovely garden and enjoying the warm and friendly welcome from the owner. We borrow the beautiful cobbled streets to the sound of merry rills of water run along the walls to eat fried chicken and go home to bed. What is our surprise to discover the next morning the mountain views and the Inca site right here, from the railing. The blue sky and sun offer us the promise of a beautiful day and everything is rested and happy to be where we go to the archaeological site. We're now houses some beautiful storefront on pavements in the village fully renovated, seeming aujourd’hui vivre au rythme d’un autre temps,
puis nous grimpons dans la montagne pour atteindre bien vite les premières ruines. De là, nous avons vue sur la ville
et, profitant de notre guide de papier glacé, nous nous adonnons à une petite lecture culturelle.

Ollantaytambo était connu pour être le berceau du maïs, plante qui a carrément donné sa forme au village (en forme d’épi de maïs donc). C’est en effet ici que les premiers essais de culture transgénique ont été réalisés! Oui, c’est qu’ici les Incas ont développé de nombreuses variétés de maïs, mettant à profit leurs connaissances de la nature pour modifier les conditions d‘ensoleillement, d‘irrigation etc. A moins que le village n’ait la forme d’un arbre coupé? Ben oui, c’est que ce qu’il y avait de bien avec les Incas, c’était leur imagination et leur capacité d’une part à chercher à organiser leur vie dans des représentations de la nature, d’autre part à faire coïncider leur environnement avec ces représentations, profitant des détails de paysage pour, agrémenté two three constructions, make them totally marry the desired shape. So? Tree cut or corn cob?


But enough of culture, two French, one of which met in Bolivia, joined where there is an opportunity to chat a bit. We greatly appreciate these moments of impromptu and spontaneous exchanges abroad which is seen more as a meeting may be any opportunistic (yes I know it will not tell). Regardless of the outcome of those moments because all the people we met on our journey, perhaps we only keep contact with the tenth but so what? The trip, as we believe life is about taking the time to share these moments without computing compatibility or viability of the relationship.
go, I stop the emotional outpourings, thank you both just happy travelers that we do not know the name but you remember the smiles, for the time spent together. Yeah finally it's all well and good, but it is late in the morning and as we wanted to succeed in reaching the foot of Machu Picchu in the day, we prefer to reach the other side of the village, the main site,

abandoning the monastery a few miles away. Anyway
is opposite that we can best see the face of the site where it was ... In fact, the Incas, still super strong forms unlikely to find mountains, and looking for a protector for their new village, we enjoyed a promontory in the rock until they cut into the shape of the profile of an Inca deity, or Wiracochan Tunupa, master of the knowledge of time.

The latter is represented on his back like a hood Father Christmas, the breadbasket of the region. This is indeed that the 2 food warehouses were built. The monastery is at her feet, completing the full match with perfection between natural and manmade ... So opposite that are the largest sites of Ollantaytambo. Agricultural terraces, buildings,

colossal stones

leaving just small promontories appear smooth for astronomical purposes.

Because here we are in the Inca site of astrology. We admit disappointment with having missed the most sophisticated instrument ... It is the astronomical observatory Inticcahuarina, a rock cut which protrude a few high-relief of a few centimeters, whose shadow, at the summer solstice in very precisely at 12:30 in exactly the notches cut into below. So this perfect agreement announced in the coming summer event agrarian utmost importance. Moreover, the effects of shade and sun were ever left to chance here: Tunupa in the face of the rock seems to have closed eyes in the morning, opened the afternoon the sun shines, when summer solstice, exactly square of crops (Pacaritanpu, estate of 9 terrace cultivation) representing not only the origin of the Incas and life but also that of maize, from a sunrise on the left of a mountain at a remove from the right ... add to solstice This image of the constellation of the llama that "wakes up" during the Sundance and you will understand that the examples are so many on this site Ollantaytambo it would be tedious to list them here. But let's say that this site has really given a sense of Inca art, so that one wonders why the Spaniards have taken for wild ones, certainly without sophisticated instruments, arrived at least the same astronomical knowledge that the Conquistadors them less friendly ... We leave Ollantaytambo
the heart bursting with admiration for what this civilization developed as knowledge and art to serve as their beliefs.