Wednesday December 19
Peru!
This is the most beautiful country we have ever seen.
The mountains are lush and green and curvaceous. The weather is drastic.
The sky is infinite and the clouds descend below mountain peaks. There are clouds on top of clouds on top of clouds. The clouds form a mist that drift through the landscape like a mysterious fog.
One of the maintenance men on our ship, a man named Paul, who is from Jamaica, made perhaps the most astute insight about Peru, ” Such a big place for four letters.”
So in keeping with this thought… we need to actually do PERU in a few posts. this is Part 1.
Ancient Peru had many prominent Andean civilizations, most notably the Incans whose empire began in the 1200’s and was captured by the Spanish Conquistadors in 1533. Peruvian independence was declared in 1821. After years of military rule, Peru returned to democratic leadership in 1980. Lima is the capital and the main exports are medicinal plants, palm oil, wheat, dry beans, poultry, beef, pork, dairy, guinea pigs and fish. The terrain includes the Amazon jungle, in the eastern lowlands, the high and rugged Andes in the center and the western coastal plain.
Callou, Peru
Peru is a shipping transit location. It is an industrialized city based mostly on import and export. We saw HUGE CAT tractors and commercial machines unpacked from enormous storage containers. From here they will be distibuted to different final destination ports.
Buildings are remarkably colorful. Though all made out of the same box cement material there is no limit on imagination. The local buses people commute on are much smaller but no less colorful than the buildings. It felt to be across between Miami and Cuba – colorful but a bit bleak.
Cars drive extremely close together and there are a lot of police.
And of course INCA KOLA
The nectar of the gods… or so it is advertised.
So sweet even L & F didn’t like it.
Travel Safe!
JKLM
Next: Cusco PERU!
leo and finn go to south america! 