W związku z tym, że wydarzenia ostatnich dni przyćmiły historię zatrucia pokarmowego oraz tym, że niekoniecznie chce mi się do tych nieszczególnie pięknych momentów wracać, o pierwszym mieście w Peru, do którego zawitaliśmy nie dowiecie się wiele. Powiedzmy, że byliśmy w Puno, nie dotarliśmy na pływające wyspy Uros i zapamiętamy stąd nocleg na dworcowym hostelu oraz pana riksiarza, który chciał nas oszukać na pieniądzach. Reszta leczenia przebiegła nam już w drugim największym mieście Peru – Arequipie, w doborowym towarzystwie naszych couchsurfingowych gospodarzy – Henry'ego i Juana Carlosa. A potem to jeszcze fajniej było ;)
English version at the bottom
Gospodarze lojalnie uprzedzeni zostali, że my to tak trochę chorzy jesteśmy, ale nie zmieniło to ich odpowiedzi i w godzinach wieczornych odwieźliśmy się z dworca do sympatycznego małego mieszkania, jakieś pół godzinki pieszo od centrum. Po przybyciu na miejscu okazało się, że nasi gospodarze dopiero zaczynają przygodę z couchsurfingiem i są... hmmm... bardzo gościnni jak na te parenaście metrów kwadratowych. Pierwszego wieczoru była nas szóstka (francuska para, dwójka z Urugwaju oraz my), drugiego już siódemka (my, para z Urugwaju, dwójka z Argentyny oraz jedna Francuzko-Amerykanka Nathalie). Niemniej jakoś udało nam się wszystkim umościć sobie posłania, nagotować, najeść i umyć się.
PS. Wszystkim, Wszystkim – baaaaaardzo dziękuję za wspaniałe życienia urodzinowe. Czuję się cudownie mając świadomość, że o mnie pamiętacie i będę naprawdę najszczęśliwą osobą na świecie jeśli choć ułamek waszych życzeń się spełni. Specjalne podziękowania kieruję do Was kochani Stachowiczanie (z rodzinami;)) – zdjęcie mnie rozczuliło. Sentymentalny się człowiek najwyraźniej robi po trzydziestce...;) Kocham i tęsknie!
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As recent events are much more
interesting than telling you the food poison story I decided to skip
it. About our visit in first Peruvian city - Puno, I can tell you –
we've spent there night in hostel on bus station, we didn't go to
flying islands of Uros and we've met one riksha guy who wanted to
cheat us with money. The healing process was continued in the second
largest city of Peru – Arequipa and we've been hosted there by very
nice guys – Henry and Juan Carlos.
Despite knowing that we are little bit
of sick they've decided to receive us and took care of us. After
arrival to their sweet cosy apartment we discovered that actually
that they are just starting their adventure with couchsurfing and
are... hmmm... very generous in accepting requests considering space
they posses. So first night we stayed there together with French
couple and two Uruguyans, second night there was us, Uruguayan
couple, two Argentinians and French-American girl Nathalie... Somehow
we managed to have nice sleeping arrangements, eat and get shower.
Next day Henry took us for a short walk in the city which is sometimes
called White City (colour of the rock they used to build the
buildings in the center) or Rome of the South America (there is a lot
of churches and orders here, in colonial times it was prestige
for a noble family to have at least one daugher as the noun). City
itself has really nice location – in the valley, surrounded by
three vulcano mountains – El Misti, Chichiani and Pichu Pichu (you
can imagine I liked the name of the last one the most). All those we
could admire by walking trough the little streets with Henry. He also
took us to one spot in the main square – restaurant on the roof –
from where we watched nice sunset ower cathedral and the city. That
is what we basically do all the time there – walked or (like a kind
of burgoise people) going by cabs. And we used taxis as the prize was
unreasonably low. Especially when you see the prizes of the fuel on
gas stations. Yeap, this part will be mystery for us.
From Arequipa we decided to go the the
city of Nazca, famous because of being the driest place in Peru and
(even more) because of the lines „paited“ on miles of the desert,
presenting different figures which meaning is still discussed by
scientisc (Reiche's works presenting it as a kind of calendar have
many points to discuss especially after discovery of similar lines
in Palpa). Nazca as a city presents a real nice inside of life in
Pervian city. Of course you need to eliminate from your impressions a
lot of touts trying to sell you excursions and very tourist
restaurants in the city center. Because we still think (despite
having food posison) that the best option is menu of the day in local
reaturant or (first seen in Nazca) sitting on the provisoric table on
the street where you can choose sandwiches and drink coffee. Hostel
we found here also was really friendly – with flegmatic but very
nice old man. After getting information we decided to buy some
excursion directly from the place we stayed (it was cheap and much
more easier than trying to reach any of places by ourselves). You
need to know that they advertise everywhere short fly over the lines
which suppose to be the best way to appreciate them. Well, in my case
flying was off the table option and not because of the insane prize
;) Instead we choose trip to the two towers which give you a glimpse
of what actually was made by old civilization on the desert. And
actually it was totally worth it – from Nazca lines we saw preetty
clear and close „hands“, „tree“ and little part of „lizard“
and from Palpa lines „family“ and the „shaman“. What's more
our guide was quite educated in the topic and explained us exactly
what we wanted to know.
Other interesting trip option from
Nazca was excursion to Chauchilla cementary. Robbed cementery
adverstised as place with a nice mummies promised to be kind a creppy
so we went for that. Althought we were sceptical at the beginning as
we were expecting (as always after such advertisments) almost empty
place with maybe one or two mumified bodies over the glass window.
After arriving on site we were very suprised as many discovered
wholes-graves had inside one or more resting in peace bodies. What's
more this archeological site isn't so good protected – there is
garbage in the graves (ones a week somebody cleans it up) and absence
of the guard encourege some people to get inside the grave for nice
selfie photo... I will not even comment it. Obviously in a country
such as Peru where mumified bodies were discovered in many places in
much more better shape this is the only way you can protect it.
From Nazca we went to Cuzco – in a
time the most imprtant city of Inca imperium. Why we came here it's
quite obvious. Because you may not know Inca history neither history
of Cuzco but for sure you are familiar with the beautifull ruins of
Machu Picchu – Inca city on the top of the mountain which was not
discoverd by the Spaniards and so also not destroyed. If they
destroyed something here, it was city of Cuzco. Short history of the
city with knowing the difference in Spaniard and Inca architecture
was presented to us by TOTALLY sweet girl from Free Walking Tours
(she used word totally at least two times in sentence and it was
totally funny:)) But what I liked the most in the tour? Amazing
architecture style – this unique Spaniard-Inca mixture? Colourful and full of life streets? Stories about Inca rulers? No... I feel
ashame but the thing I enjoyed the most was visiting the garden with
alpacas and lamas... And it as in the city where the history screams
to you from each corner! For instance you see beautifull dominican
church and you know that on this place before was standing huge and majestic Inca palace or temple, you walk the side and admire the
knowlegde of Inca building little coridors for water, in catedral you
see paiting of Last Supper but you spot guinea pig in the midlle of
the table... Museums are on each street, tourist surround you the
same as the sellers trying to convince you to buy something,
colourfully dressed ladies ask you to take a picture with lama and
the younger ones offer you a massges for ridiculous small amount. But it's
still worth just to lost yourself on the small streets, going up and
down... At least we enjoyed it much. How much, you can judge by
hearing that we spent here 4 days and we only saw one musem and went
inside one church... But we like observing the life going on here and
we were looking for the cheapist option to go to Machu Picchu.
We counted really fast that going there
independetly would cost as preetty much the same as the cheapiest
tour we found in the cheapiest hostel in the world (or at least in
Cuzco) which we found here (10 sole per night!). Hostel had really
nice kind of hippie atmosphere and they were very helphulll. And the
owner liked Polish peole and thought all of us speak perfect Spanish
(as he has some travelers and they always suprised him with the
knowlegde). So in the very morning with a nice company with other
travelers we go to Aquas Calientes. It's raining and is cold.
Dears, I know it may sound ridiculous
but I had tears in my eyes when finally reached the next day top of
the mountain and saw „the view“. Climbing Machu Picchu was one
of the dreams from childhood, from the times when traveling so far
seemed to be impossible and you could know the world only by staring
the pictures in the books (yeah, books not internet). And now I was
in the middle of the picture admired so many years. And when it
happened? On the day of my thirty birthday. It's kind of birthday I
may never forget isn't it? I couldn't picture it better. And Machu
Picchu itself? I will not be original – breathtaking...
Despite hundreds of tourists when
coming in the very monirng you can enjoy majestatic mountains, virgin
nature and well preserved ruins. Walking around the temples, palaces,
gardens may take you hours. You just need to have patience sometimes.
Like when the lady in a nice pink sweather takes milion of selfies.
Finally she goes away and you can contemplate the view - for a moment
it's just you, mountains and the ruins. I think even in rain and fog
it's mistical experience. But I am not sure as the birtday welcomed
me with sun and warm weather :)))
And at the end, just to keep you informed –
I always dreamt to have a tattoo and thanks to the best husband in
the world and Mistical Tattoos studio dream come true in a shape
of...lama on the right leg. I suffered but was worth it.
And at the very end I want to thank you
all for all your wishes you sent me that day. Special thanks for my
best friends and amazing photo-gift! I love you guys and miss you!
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