it was definitly Cristo that made me stayed in cochabamba. otherwise i will never met my ¨guardian angels¨. The one from Colombia the other one Peru / Argentina.
small intermezzo: ¨my conversation with Cristo de la concordia¨
Cristo: Christian, mi hijo, venga.
me: Si señor, yo escucho
Cristo: que deseas mi hijo?
me: warmi munaypi :D (it´s quechua)
Cristo: oye, no solo me doy te una, me doy te dos
me: señor muchas gracias
¨another conversation with Cristo o Redentor (Rio de Janeiro)¨
Cristo: Christiano, bem vindo
me: obrigado senhor
Cristo: meu filho, que quiero.
me: senhor, eu quiere tem uma boa experenzia
Cristo: Muito boa, voce recibo.
me: muito obrigado.
In all places where they have put an image of Christ on top of the hill i have been there. started in Rio, then tupiza, then cochabamba and now i went for the one in sucre (with my yugoslavian friend Victor, again it`s Cristo that brought us together again). I really apreaciated my sacred name, and really thankful to have it (thanks mom). but enough about religion, lets move on to my what i have seen. that last sunday i went to the Cerro de San Pedro. i bought the ticket for the teleferia (cabin ski lift) that brought me up the hill to the image of Cristo. The one in Rio is bigger than this one but this one is more buff. well when i was taking picture of cochabamba (and see how big it really is), two senoritas came to me and asked if i could took some picture of them (because they lost their camera). and suddenly i became a photographer. well after that we wandered around, climbed up untill the arms of Christ and we started to descend the cerro. note: on this cerro happened alot of armed robbery. but with the protection of the 2 senoritas nothing was happened :D. and before i left to catched my bus, i got an exhibition of what is called earning money during travelling from the senoritas. before you think about something bad; it`s acrobatic tour at the crossroad. same as the kids in BA do, juggling balls for money or similar. Right now im thinking to buy a small inca guitar and play on the street for some extra money (i aready have the llama poncho and the llama inca hat).
Sucre
After my adventure in cochabamba i arrived in Sucre (la ciudad Blanca) and perhaps one of the most beautiful cities in Bolivia, maybe the most beautiful. all building in the center are painted in colonial white and here they have the most prestige university in the continent: San Fransisco xavier. which results that sucre right now packed with students from all over SA, to study right here (and it`s improved the amount of cuties as well -.O). climbed the cerro with Victor and we spent a day sightseeing sucre, with good weather, in the afternoon El Señor opened the tap above us (rained very hard). the next day i went to the Casa de la libertad. it`s here where the university student of this Jesuit university started to planned liberation movement. It also housed one of the best picture of Simon Bolivar. but what impressed me most was the main hall. the architecture of it is really similar with forum romanum. And i meant the building where the senates of rome came together to discussed (Roman history is like a crack to me). and the gold coated balcony was really splendid. In this room the forefathers of bolivia have signed the act of independence. everyday i´m learning more and more about bolivia and it made me love this country more and more.
Potosi
after Casa de la libertad i went to Potosi. the highest city on it`s size in the world. and in the 16th century the biggest metropole in the world. the reason herefore is Cerro Rico. In cerro rico the spaniards found the indigenous performing rituals and also mined silver. it`s then when the spaniards started to extract huge amount of silver and made them very rich. The richness of potosi could be seen in the center, in the buildings and one in particular is Casa de la moneda. La casa is one of the biggest colonial building in america. and it cost 10 million dollars,present currency, to built it (which is exessive for it`s time). it`s now a museum with collection of really beautiful religous arts and of course coins and the machineries to produced coins. really recomended to see. I don`t have picture of the coins because i do not want to pay extra 20 bolivianos :). instead i spent my money on a mining tour. for the one with good stamina and no heart problems really recomended. we strated our tour buy buying presents for the miners (dynamites, coca leaves, cigarretes and some drink). I also learned to respect ¨pachamama¨with drinking 96% alcohol and also ¨El tio¨ the god inside the mine. when the Spaniard arrived they have brought their 2 gods (the good and the evil). for the indigenous there are no good or evil, only things that happened in the nature. thus they belive that ¨el tio¨(the devil) is their protector because the mine is his territory. to respect the devil means also money because if u respect the ¨owner¨ of the mine he will give u more precious metals. This mix of Catholicism and indigenous believe is really intrigued me. anyway the ¨portal to hell¨ is at 4000 m high and our group descent for about 100 - 200 m to the bowels of the mine. And i have experencied to worked as miner for abit, by pushing carts full with ores (when the guide asked nobody wanted to do it). right now i`m thinking to worked in the mine for a week just to experenciated for a bit.
also when we done the tour, the boss of the tour company asked me to come to the gathering of the most experence miners. where we drunk some singani. the miners asked if in Holland the speak spanish. i said ¨no, i`m learning spanish¨. and they said then now u need to learned quechua. and i said ¨imaynalla¨. the miners bursted in laughter and they really appreciated it. it`s the first time that i felt one with the people here. i`m still amazed right now. so learning quechua is really worth it.
until next time
suerte
Ch´
Sucre
After my adventure in cochabamba i arrived in Sucre (la ciudad Blanca) and perhaps one of the most beautiful cities in Bolivia, maybe the most beautiful. all building in the center are painted in colonial white and here they have the most prestige university in the continent: San Fransisco xavier. which results that sucre right now packed with students from all over SA, to study right here (and it`s improved the amount of cuties as well -.O). climbed the cerro with Victor and we spent a day sightseeing sucre, with good weather, in the afternoon El Señor opened the tap above us (rained very hard). the next day i went to the Casa de la libertad. it`s here where the university student of this Jesuit university started to planned liberation movement. It also housed one of the best picture of Simon Bolivar. but what impressed me most was the main hall. the architecture of it is really similar with forum romanum. And i meant the building where the senates of rome came together to discussed (Roman history is like a crack to me). and the gold coated balcony was really splendid. In this room the forefathers of bolivia have signed the act of independence. everyday i´m learning more and more about bolivia and it made me love this country more and more.
Potosi
after Casa de la libertad i went to Potosi. the highest city on it`s size in the world. and in the 16th century the biggest metropole in the world. the reason herefore is Cerro Rico. In cerro rico the spaniards found the indigenous performing rituals and also mined silver. it`s then when the spaniards started to extract huge amount of silver and made them very rich. The richness of potosi could be seen in the center, in the buildings and one in particular is Casa de la moneda. La casa is one of the biggest colonial building in america. and it cost 10 million dollars,present currency, to built it (which is exessive for it`s time). it`s now a museum with collection of really beautiful religous arts and of course coins and the machineries to produced coins. really recomended to see. I don`t have picture of the coins because i do not want to pay extra 20 bolivianos :). instead i spent my money on a mining tour. for the one with good stamina and no heart problems really recomended. we strated our tour buy buying presents for the miners (dynamites, coca leaves, cigarretes and some drink). I also learned to respect ¨pachamama¨with drinking 96% alcohol and also ¨El tio¨ the god inside the mine. when the Spaniard arrived they have brought their 2 gods (the good and the evil). for the indigenous there are no good or evil, only things that happened in the nature. thus they belive that ¨el tio¨(the devil) is their protector because the mine is his territory. to respect the devil means also money because if u respect the ¨owner¨ of the mine he will give u more precious metals. This mix of Catholicism and indigenous believe is really intrigued me. anyway the ¨portal to hell¨ is at 4000 m high and our group descent for about 100 - 200 m to the bowels of the mine. And i have experencied to worked as miner for abit, by pushing carts full with ores (when the guide asked nobody wanted to do it). right now i`m thinking to worked in the mine for a week just to experenciated for a bit.
also when we done the tour, the boss of the tour company asked me to come to the gathering of the most experence miners. where we drunk some singani. the miners asked if in Holland the speak spanish. i said ¨no, i`m learning spanish¨. and they said then now u need to learned quechua. and i said ¨imaynalla¨. the miners bursted in laughter and they really appreciated it. it`s the first time that i felt one with the people here. i`m still amazed right now. so learning quechua is really worth it.
until next time
suerte
Ch´
1 comment:
hola wiki!!
nos alegramos de que te guste tanto bolivia! nosotros todavia no sabemo snada de este pais asique gracias por los consejos!
esperamos q te valla todo bien y en otro momento nos veremos.
hoy wiki!
was fijn dat je Bolivia zo mooi vind! wij weten nog niet zo veel van dit land, dus thanks voor de tips!
suerte met de rest van je trip en we ontmoeten nog wel een keer!!
saludos Pepe y Anna
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