Arequipa, a jewel set in the wide valleys of southern Peru Andean plateau, is known from the Peruvians as the white city. The drown tops of three volcanoes brush the city, the misti, the Chachani and Picchu Picchu in the Quechua language. In the basement at the Convent of Santa Catalina, in an eternal embrace, lies the mummy of Juanita, Inca ice maiden. Continue reading
On a fifty years old chevrolet car, we follow a faint-track in the direction of Putre. The wind whips the faces of the natives that are covered in a last attempt at defense. The link between earth and sky is in the cosmogony of the Andean peoples. On the andean highlands, there are several research centers that use large telescopes for the observation of celestial bodies: Panaral, Cerro Pachon, Las Campanans. In exceptional years, the rare rains return to wet lands of the arid Atacama desert, causing an explosion of nature. Continue reading
Baños is a small city which rises in a flat piece of land, where the Andean valleys begin their tortuous descent towards the Amazon basin… we get there leaving the Pan-American highway near Ambato, city center of one of the … Continue reading
Exactly in front of the bridge which is the entrance gate to the city of Latacunga, a young boy tell us to go up on its rickety bus. It’s early in the morning, we begin the travel towards the covered … Continue reading
