Blogs sponsored by Piotr Chmielinski Canoandes.org Music “Doina de La Visna” by Gheorghe Zamifir. Available here. This will be the last blog before I hit the Pacific Ocean, hopefully just a few days from now. Landscapes A very eventful last few weeks since I climbed Mismi and left Chivay, and all the details … Read more »
Blogs sponsored by Piotr Chmielinski Canoandes.org The summit After crossing the winding, treeless, cold and barren valley from the small mining town of Caylloma, and staying a few days with the hardy local inhabitants, one of whom walked with me for a few hours, I followed the last part of the Apurimac river … Read more »
Blogs sponsored by Piotr Chmielinski Canoandes.org I borrowed my title from John Hemming’s wonderful, definitive book Tree of Rivers. If you look at the diagram of the Amazon Basin below, it is not difficult to distinguish his “tree” of rivers that appears to grow west from the Atlantic. The tree trunk is the main Amazon River, and the … Read more »
Blogs sponsored by Piotr Chmielinski Canoandes.org As the famous writer and author of War And Peace, Leo Tolstoy, once wrote “The two most powerful warriors are patience and time.” It has become something of a mantra for me, after losing many weeks walking due to getting sick in Cusco with Covid. After being ill, I really struggled physically, … Read more »
Blogs sponsored by Piotr Chmielinski Canoandes.org The word Pachamama translates to Mother Earth from the ancient Quechua language – pacha meaning universe, world, or earth, and mama meaning mother. In the many mountain villages I passed or stayed at, the people who live there spend most of their days working the land by hand in the various … Read more »
Blogs sponsored by Piotr Chmielinski Canoandes.org The life and soul – the heart – of the local Peruvian towns seems to be recovering now, post-Covid. Having spent some time in the surprisingly pleasant and picturesque Pichari, I’ve seen a definite surge of socializing. Every night of the week the streets and central plazas are … Read more »
