Andes, Amazon, Pampa and pre-forest savannah, all this is in Bolivia and all that we saw from the bus nost. Two endless days of travel that we have got wonderful images and a considerable fatigue.
Incallajta means land of the Incas and is 132 km east of Cochabamba there is the extreme eastern outpost of the Inca Empire, abandoned in the first half of 1500.
Here we are immersed in the Andean landscape, embrace there by round and soft, dark green mountains and steppe.
Rene index dips into the cup of wine, run a drop to the ground and touching the forehead, mouth and heart because before you eat and drink whatever you give it to Pachamama . Rene is a known cochabambino Isla, a collection of bright kiosks where you can eat tacos, anticuchos, hamburghesa and sevice (raw fish soup). While we eat goes a guy with long hair and some jewelry created by him, and kidney, we stop to make friends and we should finish off the night at Fusion: a place run by an Italian. And so, with Giancarlo and Rene, the last two nights we spend talking about our trip from Bolivia and a glass of wine and photos on the walls of Venice and Pordenone. The fetuccine tomato and eggplant that has been prepared Giancarlo our greetings to Italy and the smile and the stories of our passes were Rene
-Giancarlo, how long it takes to get to Villa Tunari?
-Well, it depends on how many trucks are.
fact we spend the day on Thursday while traveling ... enjoying beautiful eyes that gives the landscape: climate Andean pass to the Amazon rainforest. Villa Tunari is located 300 meters above sea level, but first go through a step-by-3800 m . above sea level, the rest is all imagination of nature. For lunch
Raphael brings us to the Conquistador, a restaurant elegent with a fish farm. We were not too happy to be there and the irony of the name reminds us that we are looking for something more authentic and not tourists, we are looking for Bolivia more "real" and away from contamination occidentale.E 'also true that this is a reality: it is an aspect of Bolivia today and places like restaurants and hotels that reflect the Western style, there are not only for whites but for Bolivians themselves they want and can afford, this type of tourism.
The United Nations in 1952 treats the chewing of coca leaves taking drugs. The traditional use but has been granted to countries such as Bolivia, Peru, Colombia and Venezuela.
present, each family can grow up to 4000 square feet coca and derives from four harvests a year. It closes a branch between your thumb and index them and you scroll to the bottom so the leaves remain in the hand and the plant is not damaged. After 4 hours of drying the leaves are ready for market. With coca leaves may produce soap, liquor and tea. The chewing of the leaves is common mainly in the Andean zone, in helping the regularization of the pressure, other effects are the elimination of the stimuli of hunger and sleep. Hospital Chipiriri the nun who is persente the problem of malnutrition is lagato is the fact that some children are abandoned because their parents are in the fields to cultivate both because whoever knows a lot loses sense of hunger. It 'also true that coca has excellent therapeutic purposes and that addresses the issue of height, both with the method of mastication in the form of mate (tea) which also helps for a variety of intestinal problems.
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Other two-day journey to Trinidad with a stop at San Javier
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walking to the market. Pass at 3800 meters above sea level  |
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| The dealer is responsible to maintain this order in the holy place and to release those who do not comply |
Every day begins with 18 hours of sound and the forest animals singing in the choir until sunset, only one thing makes them stop: a danger. Suddenly, the forest is in play, in terror, apprehensive.
Here, in the slash and burn, the wind brings with him silence and left the desolation of this place that smells like a cemetery where the ashes of burnt wood enters the skin and eyes, which respond with tears.
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