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Torres del Paine is among the biggest of Chiles national parks, occupying almost 600,000 acres (242,000 ha) of land in the south on the border with Argentina. It is also among the most important, receiving a significant proportion of domes Like any American, traveling occasionally is just what I love doing and I bet you share the same stuff with me. But traveling does not mean that you would be safe. Escaping from our job and other stressful activities is just something that w
When you travel, sooner or later, people ask you or you ask yourself: what are you doing here? and, what were my expectations of this place? I have lived in Peru for 14 years, between the Coast, the Mountains, and the Amazon Rainforest, three large regions defined by a different psychology and geography. This is what makes me stay here and that summary of the countrys diversity is something I had not imagined before coming.Mi idea of Peru was based on the Andes and the Andean culture, mainly the Quechua and, in less proportion, the Aymara in Cusco and Lake Titicaca. That was what the TV documentaries showed and was reaffirmed when I saw the Andean music groups played on the streets of my hometown. I did not know that almost two thirds of Peru is Amazon Rainforest, Lima is at sea level and Peru has the best gastronomy of America. The Amazon Rainforest was what caught me. From an initial trip of two years, I ended up staying seven years in Alto Marañón department of Amazonas and a few years later I spent a year and a half in Tambopata - department of Madre de Dios -, the worlds capital of biodiversity. The Amazon Rainforest has the property of bringing out a primary instinct that everyone, from immemorial times of evolution, has. Travelling around rivers, hunting, fishing, living with the native and learning from them the psychology of plants and animals, makes you, in some way, be more intimately fulfilled. The environment transforms you in a more rudimentary being and you take into account, like the Amazonian myths say, that humanity is not exclusive from men; it is shared with plants, animals, atmospheric phenomena and places. At the end, you do not have anything else but enjoy watching how your ideas about the Amazon Rainforest, its people and lifestyle were distorted. Perhaps the richness in travelling is precisely that: to discover that there are many truths as people that cross along your way.I do not know why, but there has not been any other place like the Amazon Rainforest that made me see that there are always exceptions to every conceived idea. And, later, I realized that was the main reason why I continue in this country: Peru is like three countries in one and you always feel that while you travel around them, you are in different planets. Due to its diversity, it is the place with the worlds record in life zones and different climates.You can trek the Ausangate route, the sacred mountain of the Incas, during five days while you live with high plateau shepherds of llamas and alpacas; see condor herds fly in the Colca Canyon or in the Nazca Desert; camp on the shores of the Apurimac River surrounded by otters after descending in rafts; contemplate the cloud forest of Machu Picchu at dawn; observe thousands of sea lions and penguins in one of the richest seas of the planet; slide down the waters of Titicaca, the highest navigable lake of the world, under a sky of sensations and colors. Manu and Tambopata National Reserves, Chan Chan the largest adobe citadel worldwide , Machu Picchu the lost city of the Incas and archaeological mystery and the coastal desert are some of the samples of cultural, ecologic and social diversity, that after a trip to Peru, people ask you or you ask yourself: when will I come back to experience all I left pending?Intense PeruToll Free (US & Canada) 1-800 644 1024skype user: [email protected] http://www.intenseperu.com/
Peru,Journey,Diversity,When,yo