I spent over a week in Puno, a lovely city South from Lima. Puno is famous because of the Titicaca lake and what a lake! Blue and I don´t find words to compare its shine. I think the lake was always in competition with the blue sky, because both were always shining. The Lord was more than good to provide Puno with such a landscape. You could feel History, good energy and mistery everywhere. History because of the many ruins there; mistery because many people, including me, where there to visit places full of energy and stories of people living underground -I was astonished when I visited the Aramu Muru door- and mistery because of the legends and stories people tell.
I have to confess I like to travel in Peru because of our diverisity and for me it is a way to get closer and to understand some of our national reality. People speak there Spanish (they were forced to since it is the most important language in Peru), Quechua and Aymara. Unfortunately in Peru, it is not mandatory to learn natives languages at the school or at the university and for me this is a huge mistake. Not to talk a language means not to understand the way of thinking, the way of understanding the world. The Andean people live in other context and their environment is more linked with nature and also with the experience of subjugation and torture by Spanish conquerors and afterwards by abusive landowners (of course there are always exceptions). All of us have traces of our history but there are times when I feel that some require more time to be overcome. However, despite our negative past experience, I have found women wearing their traditional colourful dresses working hard, women with a lovely strong black shiny hair decorated by a unique hat that has become the distinction mark of Puno´s women. I have seen beautiful girls and children with a mestizo sunburned skin. All of them full of life and hopes. I just adored the time there and I am sure I will visit the city again. Meanwhile I enjoy my life in Lima.
Some travel tips and other data:
- There are always cheap ways to reach the touristic places. The tours I was offered were very expensive, for example, one tour for Tiahuanaco ruins was US$ 190 per person. Luckily I did it on my own and I just spent S/. 180 Soles (Exchange rate: US$ 1 = S/. 3.20 new Soles. Of course, the amount of money depends on how many days you want to stay and what do you want to visit. But, again, my best tip is that you "should always ask for alternative ways". In Peru most of the time there are cheaper ways.
- Tourists usually spend two or three days in Puno. Taquile Islands are the most visited place. Now the trend is to do "immersion tourism". I don´t know the prices for this tour.
- The best restaurant and coffee for me: La Casa del Corregidor. A nice attention and fair prices.
- Visit the Carlos Dreyer museum. I was impressed by the paintings and the well arranged section about periods of history.
- The Hotel Posada Don Giorgio was very good: simple, but very clean.
- About the "Aramu Muru" doorway, there are a couple of stories about its origin. I am the kind of person who believes in other worlds in this world. For me Aramu Muru is the conecction between our ordinary world and the other "hidden" world and this "hidden world" may help us to reach other level of awareness or conciousness. Here I share this interesting link about "Aramu Muru": http://coolinterestingstuff.com/mystery-of-the-aramu-muru-gateway
I share with you some pics of my travel:
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| I love the long braids. |
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| A coca tee is always good. The coca leaves are not drug. |
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| Chullpas (graves) in Sullastani. |
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| We all share the same roots. |
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| Blue sky and a blue lake through a window-door in Juli, South of Puno. A nice town. |
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| A geougeus painting by the German painter Carlos Dreyer. |
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| A place I wanted to visit for a long time: Tiahuanaco ruins in Bolivia. Here is the Kalasasaya temple. |
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