Wow how time has flown by!
We arrived home from Peru safe and sound, if a bit tired and then were thrown into the whirlwind of wedding preparations.
Our wedding was truly magical, we couldn't have asked for anything better! The day was hot and sunny! yes in June in Newfoundland! I was worried guests might get drizzled on but they got sunburns instead!
At the ceremony there was an upside down rainbow and we had butterflies circling us!
Dinner for family at India Gate was exquisite and the reception was so much fun! We were brought into the hall by belly dancers and that started a variety show for the night. Biggest thanks to those who performed it made it so special!
After the wedding there was lots of socializing and we haven't really stopped since. On Tuesday we're heading to Ottawa region for two weeks before school starts in September.
I'm going to upload a few pictures from the trip and our wedding. Hope you like them!
Cheers
Evelyn
Saturday, August 8, 2009
Monday, May 25, 2009
will up date more at home
hola!
with only 2 hours to our airport taxi i´ll make this quick and write more when I get home. I¨ll supplement with pictures then too!
we´ve spent a relaxing few days in miraflores hanging out at the pacific side parks.
here are a few one liner memories to leave you with for now -
...drinking light beer in the park by the pacific...
...watching hanggilders from the cliffside mall in miraflores...
... trying to keep track of all the different dog breeds I¨ve seen in Peru - and then giving up- lots of dogs!...
... speaking of dogs- a great dane as street dog in nazca -yikes!
... our house stay mother on a Lake Tititcaca island telling us she had 3 sons but thought ninas (daughters) would be better b/c they can knit....
... her great food!...
...the oasis in the colca canyon! paradise!
... little girls playing tag on taquille Island in Lake T and using Peter to hide behind! we bought bracelets from them...
...fresh Lake T trout...
.... fruit stands on the streets...
...our colca canyon guide picking seemingly ¨random¨ herbs for teas....
... altitude sickness yet again...
... posing with fancy dressed up llamas at our highest point 4900 meters!....
and soooo much more
off to enjoy our last hour or so here before 24 in airports...
ciao!
Evelyn
with only 2 hours to our airport taxi i´ll make this quick and write more when I get home. I¨ll supplement with pictures then too!
we´ve spent a relaxing few days in miraflores hanging out at the pacific side parks.
here are a few one liner memories to leave you with for now -
...drinking light beer in the park by the pacific...
...watching hanggilders from the cliffside mall in miraflores...
... trying to keep track of all the different dog breeds I¨ve seen in Peru - and then giving up- lots of dogs!...
... speaking of dogs- a great dane as street dog in nazca -yikes!
... our house stay mother on a Lake Tititcaca island telling us she had 3 sons but thought ninas (daughters) would be better b/c they can knit....
... her great food!...
...the oasis in the colca canyon! paradise!
... little girls playing tag on taquille Island in Lake T and using Peter to hide behind! we bought bracelets from them...
...fresh Lake T trout...
.... fruit stands on the streets...
...our colca canyon guide picking seemingly ¨random¨ herbs for teas....
... altitude sickness yet again...
... posing with fancy dressed up llamas at our highest point 4900 meters!....
and soooo much more
off to enjoy our last hour or so here before 24 in airports...
ciao!
Evelyn
Last Post Before Leaving...
So, this will be my (Peter´s) last blog post before we get home to our cozy house, cats, and convenient high-speed connection...
So last I posted was in Nasca, I think... I´ll start from there... we DID go to the Necropolis, and it was cool... a desert wasteland that was used to bury mummies and the like from the ´pre-incan´people called (by us), the Nazca... Since the tombs had been severely looted, there was a time, not too long ago, when scores and scores of bones and mummies were just scattered about... At this point, most have been collected and assembled in the various excavated tombs which we were able to walk amongs and inspect, but there was still alot of skeletal debris floating around... for example, femurs and skulls were to be seen out on the desert sands not 30 feet from our clearly delineated walkway, and more spooky still, the wind had a funny way of making sure that bits of... stuff... found its way directly into our path... if this sounds ghoulish, I guess it was, sortof, but there was nothing nasty about this place... it was peacefull, and the mummies we saw were in their ´homes´, as it were... Also, they had dreadlocks... BIG dreadlocks, like six feet or more, even if the people were only 4 or five feet tall... it was how the wise-men and Ssaman´s were distinguished...
So we got up very early the next morning to get the first flight out over the lines, but there was a fog... as a result, it looked like we werent going to get a chance to see them. At the last minute, however, the OK was given, and we were whisked out to the Nazca Airport and into a Cesna... Off we went... Of all this little plane´s occupants, it fell to me to nearly vomit from the pilot´s sheer banking maneuvers... I held it in, though...
But the lines... they were amazing... pictures of funny little men, spirals, birds, lizards, whales, monkeys, diembodied hands and more, writ LARGE upon the desert amidst the psychedelic fingerprints of a dried up flood-plane... there were several very clear, full patterns, and many, many more partial ones... And amidst all of this, huge, HUGE triangles, perfectly delineated, of land that had been seemingly flattened, or raised... SO the people who think these were alien landing craft at least have something reasonably like a runway (many actually) to support their claims...
It was wild, and Ev will fill you in on her side of the experience, I´m sure, in addition to providing some of our photos of this, and the, uh... necropolis...
This is getting to be a large post... We took a bus once more to Lima, and this time we stayed by the coast, in the Miraflora area... Honestly, it was a bit of a more low-key few days... our main points of interest were: going to see the new Star Trek movie at the cliffside mall, Trying (me) to no avail to go paragliding, having (and falling in love with) the local raw-fish delicacy cebiche, and taking a trip to the zoo, which like all zoos was a combination of cool (the animals), and appalling (the prison like conditions). I think if given the final say in the matter, I would opt to eliminate zoos... don´t much like the way humans imagine their relation to other beings to be, really, but hey, who needs this blog to go political? Subject dropped...
So we fly in a few hours, and I must mention as a last note that we spent a good bit of time in ´the park of love´, which is a nice little cliffside park, done up in the style of the amazing spanish architect, Antoni Gaudi, thathas a neat statue of a couple kissing... I wholeheartedly approve of monuments to Love... there are too few in the North American cities I´ve been to... It was romantic...
So that´s all from me for now...
Ciao,
-Peter
So last I posted was in Nasca, I think... I´ll start from there... we DID go to the Necropolis, and it was cool... a desert wasteland that was used to bury mummies and the like from the ´pre-incan´people called (by us), the Nazca... Since the tombs had been severely looted, there was a time, not too long ago, when scores and scores of bones and mummies were just scattered about... At this point, most have been collected and assembled in the various excavated tombs which we were able to walk amongs and inspect, but there was still alot of skeletal debris floating around... for example, femurs and skulls were to be seen out on the desert sands not 30 feet from our clearly delineated walkway, and more spooky still, the wind had a funny way of making sure that bits of... stuff... found its way directly into our path... if this sounds ghoulish, I guess it was, sortof, but there was nothing nasty about this place... it was peacefull, and the mummies we saw were in their ´homes´, as it were... Also, they had dreadlocks... BIG dreadlocks, like six feet or more, even if the people were only 4 or five feet tall... it was how the wise-men and Ssaman´s were distinguished...
So we got up very early the next morning to get the first flight out over the lines, but there was a fog... as a result, it looked like we werent going to get a chance to see them. At the last minute, however, the OK was given, and we were whisked out to the Nazca Airport and into a Cesna... Off we went... Of all this little plane´s occupants, it fell to me to nearly vomit from the pilot´s sheer banking maneuvers... I held it in, though...
But the lines... they were amazing... pictures of funny little men, spirals, birds, lizards, whales, monkeys, diembodied hands and more, writ LARGE upon the desert amidst the psychedelic fingerprints of a dried up flood-plane... there were several very clear, full patterns, and many, many more partial ones... And amidst all of this, huge, HUGE triangles, perfectly delineated, of land that had been seemingly flattened, or raised... SO the people who think these were alien landing craft at least have something reasonably like a runway (many actually) to support their claims...
It was wild, and Ev will fill you in on her side of the experience, I´m sure, in addition to providing some of our photos of this, and the, uh... necropolis...
This is getting to be a large post... We took a bus once more to Lima, and this time we stayed by the coast, in the Miraflora area... Honestly, it was a bit of a more low-key few days... our main points of interest were: going to see the new Star Trek movie at the cliffside mall, Trying (me) to no avail to go paragliding, having (and falling in love with) the local raw-fish delicacy cebiche, and taking a trip to the zoo, which like all zoos was a combination of cool (the animals), and appalling (the prison like conditions). I think if given the final say in the matter, I would opt to eliminate zoos... don´t much like the way humans imagine their relation to other beings to be, really, but hey, who needs this blog to go political? Subject dropped...
So we fly in a few hours, and I must mention as a last note that we spent a good bit of time in ´the park of love´, which is a nice little cliffside park, done up in the style of the amazing spanish architect, Antoni Gaudi, thathas a neat statue of a couple kissing... I wholeheartedly approve of monuments to Love... there are too few in the North American cities I´ve been to... It was romantic...
So that´s all from me for now...
Ciao,
-Peter
Thursday, May 21, 2009
Nazca Update
Well... We just arrived in Nazca after three days in the Colca Canyon. The trip was fantastic, only being slightly marred by a sociopathic American backpacker who seemed to take great pleasure in kicking puppies... As you will see from the photo´s the canyon was really like a great big valley with huge mountains on every side. On the first day, we descended for 4 hours, on the second we walked for 4 hours and on the morning of the 3rd we ascended for about 3 hours. Evelyn hired a Mule to ferry her up. It was most amusing. Our guide was a nice girl from the local town of Cabanaconda and she showed us numerous interesting things like medicinal plant, pre-inca storehouses and the like... She gave us some lightly fermented Chicha, which is a wheat beer that they make... tasty. There was also a museum of local artifacts including enormous blocks of natural salt, slingshots, looms, and utility pouches made of Bull testicles... In fact the tip bag was just such a ´sack´... we put a few Soles into the bull balls in gratitude and headed on our trek...
It´s closing in on the last leg of our Journey. In Nasca we will check out an ancient necropolis, and then fly over the Nazca lines tommorow morning... Then at last to Lima, to relax in the Posh neighbourhood of Miraflora before flying back to our North Atlantic Island...
I think Ev will be adding photos, and hopefully we´ll get that video working...
-Pete
It´s closing in on the last leg of our Journey. In Nasca we will check out an ancient necropolis, and then fly over the Nazca lines tommorow morning... Then at last to Lima, to relax in the Posh neighbourhood of Miraflora before flying back to our North Atlantic Island...
I think Ev will be adding photos, and hopefully we´ll get that video working...
-Pete
Sunday, May 17, 2009
happy llama
*no video yet... well try later*
We saw this young llama among a flock of sheep happily bouncing about. This was in the mountains around cuzco. I thought you would like to see this.
Apparently llama is pronouced Jama in Spanish. It means something along the lines of fire breathing dragon as, like camels, Llamas spit, but unlike camels their spit burns!
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Evelyn has stepped out while the video uploads, so I thought Id add a few words... Arequippa is gorgeous... the wide streets, proliferation of big beautiful, colonial buildings, great food (superb Felafel), and oodles of bookstores, make it the place for me! If I had to live in Peru, this would be where. Tommorow we head to the Colca canyon for a 3 day trek, after which we will take the red-eye bus to Nasca. In Nasca, we plan to spend a day and check out the Nasca lines... enormous geomantic designs writ large upon the land for hundreds of hundreds of miles. There are monkeys, condors and other creatures depicted, so large they can only be seen from the air... Its pretty exciting... Finally Ill be able to contact the mother ship and get off this rock... wait, did I say that out loud!? :)
Video is taking forever to upload... might have to cancel it for now and post later... :(
Lunch calls...
Arequipa
the El Misty volcano behind the cathedral in the main plaza
I dropped my glasses in the stumbling around in the dark during a noisy hostel night. Thanks for the pocket duct tape Maureen!
we found what we think are quail eggs at the grocery store. cute and tasty!
feeding pigeons in the main plaza
our hostel was two blocks from the optical district, they just reshaped my lens into new $16 frames! took 30 mins - i can see again!Our trip to Lake Titicaca
us in traditional Amantani clothes at the dance
our lunch - you guessed it! papa potato
the bed on reeds in the mud hut with painted walls
us on a big reed boat
on the floating island
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