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Nomadic Travel

Wednesday 19 May 2010 @ 20:48

NomadicTravel represents for us the combination of a dream and a project: to live the journey in its purest form, independent and free from time and mental limits. Without an itinerary, exclusively following curiosity and advices of friends met along the way. The reference to nomadism is a tribute to the indigenous peoples of the earth, historically discriminated and marginalized; it also indicates willingness to tell and rediscover wisdom of these peoples, too often forgotten: “The life of every living being is inextricably linked to Mother Earth, with whom we must maintain a constant balance, asking only what is necessary. ” Following this message, the journey becomes a wonderful opportunity to simplify reality and transform it into dreams and fairy tales …

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Lima and Manual del Pendejo

Monday 9 April 2007 @ 14:44

Moche, gold mask Pre-Columbian archeology Lima Peru

The last American week, once more and so short to seem already ended: the travel through Peru, fantastic but perhaps lived less intensely regarding the adventures in the other Latin American countries. Coming from the uncovered coast of the Pacific Ocean, Lima appears as an enormous and dusty strip of desert, at first sight quite unattractive. The traffic congests this big city reducing the historical center (around Plaza de Armas) to a funnel of smog, nothing romantic. People shout in order to sell goods of any type, from food to the most unthinkable objects. An old man shows us his product, saying “asì me gano la vida“, the Manual del Pendejo, that is expired daydreams and holy water… life in Latin America is never banal neither sweet, just demands a lot, maybe too much creativity.

Peruvian civil war, Sendero Luminoso Fujimori Ayacucho massacres Andes

The Yuyanapaq.Para recordar museum (in memory of the two decades civil war, 1980-2000), remembers through an intense audiovisual exposition, that tragic period in Peruvian history and the sad genocide of the Andean people, a season of ideological contrasts that kicked up a big wave of terror in the country. As always, those who paid the worst price in this war were the indigenous people, particularly in the region of Ayacucho. Overwhelmed by a spiral of violence and terroristic actions, the country lost the conscience and suspended its own history.

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