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<title><![CDATA[Back from Peru]]></title>
<link>http://overlyambitiousme.wordpress.com/2013/02/27/back-from-peru/</link>
<pubDate>Wed, 27 Feb 2013 15:00:32 +0000</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[My best days of 2013 thus far were spent in Peru.  This trip was the result of years of dreaming, sa]]></description>
<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>My best days of 2013 thus far were spent in Peru.  This trip was the result of years of dreaming, saving, and finding  two and a half weeks that I wouldn&#8217;t feel guilty about for taking off on vacation.  I&#8217;ve got a few posts in the works on our trip, but for now you get a highlight reel.  Perhaps you&#8217;ll be inspired to go there yourself.</p>
<div class="wp-caption aligncenter" style="width: 510px"><img alt="" src="http://farm9.staticflickr.com/8107/8490276147_33ee8a51b7.jpg" width="500" height="333" /><p class="wp-caption-text">Baby vicuña</p></div>
<h2>Puno/Lake Titicaca</h2>
<p>Why we went: funny name.</p>
<p>What we got: cultural experience</p>
<p>Highlights &#8212; Sillustani Ruins, Uros floating islands, Taquile Island</p>
<div class="wp-caption aligncenter" style="width: 510px"><img alt="" src="http://farm9.staticflickr.com/8094/8491351758_b93ee58134.jpg" width="500" height="333" /><p class="wp-caption-text">Sillustani ruins</p></div>
<div class="wp-caption aligncenter" style="width: 510px"><img alt="" src="http://farm9.staticflickr.com/8106/8491319516_74355fd6e9.jpg" width="500" height="333" /><p class="wp-caption-text">Uros floating islands &#8212; made out of reeds</p></div>
<div class="wp-caption aligncenter" style="width: 510px"><img alt="" src="http://farm9.staticflickr.com/8088/8491299484_a078a70b32.jpg" width="500" height="333" /><p class="wp-caption-text">Musical performance on Taquile Island</p></div>
<h2>Cusco/Inca Trail/Machu Picchu</h2>
<p>Why we went: Life-long dream of hiking Inca Trail.</p>
<p>What we got: Unforgettable experience of hiking up to the sun gate to see Machu Picchu at sunrise</p>
<p>Highlights: THE INCA TRAIL, food on the inca trail</p>
<div class="wp-caption aligncenter" style="width: 510px"><img alt="" src="http://farm9.staticflickr.com/8369/8492746346_1d28ee46bb.jpg" width="500" height="333" /><p class="wp-caption-text">Marching band in Cusco</p></div>
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<h2>Amazon Basin/Tambopata River</h2>
<p>Why we went: experience wildlife in the jungle</p>
<p>What we got: macaws and monkeys, 24/7</p>
<p>Highlights: Our guide,Richard Amable; red howler monkeys; macaw clay lick; being 6.5 hours up a river</p>
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<div class="wp-caption aligncenter" style="width: 510px"><img alt="" src="http://farm9.staticflickr.com/8508/8491729111_c703482015.jpg" width="500" height="333" /><p class="wp-caption-text">Dusky Titi Monkey</p></div>
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<title><![CDATA[Into The Wild]]></title>
<link>http://agreenbean.wordpress.com/2012/09/04/into-the-wild/</link>
<pubDate>Tue, 04 Sep 2012 01:42:25 +0000</pubDate>
<dc:creator>aGreenBean</dc:creator>
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<description><![CDATA[Image by: Katherine Griffiths Photography Hundreds of dragonflies dart haphazardly around me, fractu]]></description>
<content:encoded><![CDATA[<div class="wp-caption alignnone" style="width: 590px"><a href="http://agreenbean.files.wordpress.com/2013/01/amazon.jpg"><img class="size-full wp-image" id="i-590" alt="Image" src="http://agreenbean.files.wordpress.com/2013/01/amazon.jpg?w=580&#038;h=409" width="580" height="409" /></a><p class="wp-caption-text">Image by: Katherine Griffiths Photography</p></div>
<p>Hundreds of dragonflies dart haphazardly around me, fracturing the silvery pink light. They snatch at small clouds of gnats and unsuspecting mosquitoes as afternoon turns to evening. The humidity slowly drops. Standing in the ‘open window’ that is my bedroom wall, I witness the sounds of larger forest life quieten and the smaller insect world increase in crescendo.</p>
<p>I can hear distant laughter and the tinkling of glasses. The sweat on my arms and face dries as the air cools. It’s now the twilight. The dragonflies feed with less abandonment, the forest with her large palm fronds and the vines near to me, morph into one giant silhouette against a now blue-black night sky. The last of the light disappears and standing in the dark I reflect on what an amazing place I’ve landed in.</p>
<p>I’m in Tambopata National Park in the South East of Peru with the award-winning ecotourism outfit - <a href="http://www.perunature.com/">Rainforest Expeditions</a>. I’m here to experience the Amazon, to search for the elusive Jaguar, Anacondas, the very rare Giant River Otter and the Harpy Eagle. These four species are considered, by my guide Aldo, as the top four endangered predatory creatures in the area.</p>
<p>Squinting at the glow of my watch I realise I’ve almost missed sundowners at the lodge bar. With the smell of dinner in the air I grab a torch, stroll the walkways to the main hub of ‘Refugio’ (the lodge) and find some of the guides and other guests already at the bar, tucking into Pisco Sours and discussing the coming days’ activities.</p>
<div class="wp-caption alignnone" style="width: 594px"><a href="http://agreenbean.files.wordpress.com/2012/09/lodge-katherine-griffiths.jpg"><img title="Refugio Lodge" alt="" src="http://agreenbean.files.wordpress.com/2012/09/lodge-katherine-griffiths.jpg?w=584&#038;h=389#38;h=389" width="584" height="389" /></a><p class="wp-caption-text">Refugio Lodge<br />Image by: © Katherine Griffiths Photography</p></div>
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<div class="wp-caption alignnone" style="width: 594px"><a href="http://agreenbean.files.wordpress.com/2012/09/lodge-walkways-kate-walker.jpg"><img title="Lodge walkways" alt="" src="http://agreenbean.files.wordpress.com/2012/09/lodge-walkways-kate-walker.jpg?w=584&#038;h=387#38;h=387" width="584" height="387" /></a><p class="wp-caption-text">Lodge walkways.<br />Image by Kate Walker</p></div>
<div class="wp-caption alignnone" style="width: 594px"><a href="http://agreenbean.files.wordpress.com/2012/09/lodge2-katherine-griffiths.jpg"><img title="Lodge hammocks" alt="" src="http://agreenbean.files.wordpress.com/2012/09/lodge2-katherine-griffiths.jpg?w=584&#038;h=409#38;h=409" width="584" height="409" /></a><p class="wp-caption-text">The perfect spot to while away the afternoon hours…<br />Image by: © Katherine Griffiths Photography</p></div>
<p>His incredible ear for faun calls and eye for the tiniest of movements sees me witnessing Saddle-back Tamarinds for the first time, different species of Tucan, teasing Chicken Tarantulas out of their ground burrows (this is not for the faint-hearted) and learning about the stranger of beasts (Screaming Pijas and Hoatzins to name a couple) in this huge conservation area.  We pass Walking Trees, Strangler Figs and Kapoks – the incredible and majestic trees that inspired James Cameron in the making of the film ‘Avatar’.Life, in this part of the world, is at its busiest early in the day; I’m up each day at around 06:00am to the awakening calls of Howler Monkeys and within the hour, walking the forest trails with a belly full of breakfast and in the footsteps of Aldo.</p>
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<p>Tambopata NP really is a special place. It has one of very few Macaw research/conservation and protection centres in all of South America and along with Colombia it is ranked the top spot for bird watching in South America.</p>
<p>Tambopata lies within the larger region of Madre de Dios (Mother of God) where 52 per cent of the forests are protected by the government. Of the 120 ‘world climates’, 80 can be found in this setting and wider Peru. This nook in the world is all about halting development and promoting conservation – it’s fantastic to see.</p>
<div class="wp-caption alignnone" style="width: 594px"><a href="http://agreenbean.files.wordpress.com/2012/09/trail-katherine-griffiths.jpg"><img title="Amazon trails" alt="" src="http://agreenbean.files.wordpress.com/2012/09/trail-katherine-griffiths.jpg?w=584&#038;h=389#38;h=389" width="584" height="389" /></a><p class="wp-caption-text">One of many forest trails..<br />Image by: © Katherine Griffiths Photography</p></div>
<p>Perched silently in a hide overlooking the clicks, I watched vibrant yellow, red and blue Scarlet Macaws socialise and parakeets group together in their tens. Bird enthusiasts can sit glued to telescopes and high-tech binoculars for hours, so if you’re all about the avian world – this is the place to be.Traipsing the forest trails and crushing dry vegetation underfoot is not conducive to glimpsing some of the more shy fauna in the region. So this is where the Clay Licks come in handy. A Clay Lick is an area, usually on the edges of a riverbank, where creatures great and small gather around exposed soil and eat the nutrient-rich clay to assist in their digestion of fruits and other vegetation. Some also believe it’s a place where Tambopata’s 1,800 species of bird come to socialise. And, Tambopata is home to the largest ‘Clay Lick’ in the world.</p>
<p><a href="http://agreenbean.files.wordpress.com/2012/09/sunset-kate-walker.jpg"><img title="Beer, sunset and a fantastic spot to perch" alt="" src="http://agreenbean.files.wordpress.com/2012/09/sunset-kate-walker.jpg?w=584&#038;h=387#38;h=387" width="584" height="387" /></a></p>
<p>All you need it a cold beer and a spot to perch.<br />
Image by Kate Walker</p>
<p>Afternoons saw me scaling canopy towers allowing a peak at the expanse of green I’d been moving under for days. By night there’s the opportunity to go Caiman spotting – these creatures that grow up to two meters long are far more active at night. And if the reptiles are proving difficult to hunt out then a boat ride with your head hung over the side is just as good – the stars and clarity of night sky in this corner of the planet is incredible.</p>
<p><a href="http://agreenbean.files.wordpress.com/2012/09/the-river-at-dusk-kate-walker.jpg"><img title="The river at dusk" alt="" src="http://agreenbean.files.wordpress.com/2012/09/the-river-at-dusk-kate-walker.jpg?w=584&#038;h=258#38;h=258" width="584" height="258" /></a></p>
<p>Fading light on a sandy bank.<br />
Image by Kate Walker</p>
<p>Sadly, I never got to see any of the mentioned top predators but I saw a huge array of other wonderful species and I’m far richer for the exposure. Refugio’s guides and staff make the experience; the lodge is an oasis of comforts in what is a wild, remote part of the world.</p>
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<title><![CDATA[Maravillosamente ignorantes (por partida doble)]]></title>
<link>http://travelyoung.wordpress.com/2011/11/12/maravillosamente-ignorantes-por-partida-doble/</link>
<pubDate>Sun, 13 Nov 2011 09:08:23 +0000</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[Desde hace unos años Machu Picchu es considerada una maravilla mundial. De ratificarse la denominaci]]></description>
<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Desde hace unos años Machu Picchu es considerada una maravilla mundial.</p>
<p>De ratificarse la denominación del Río Amazonas como maravilla natural, el Perú contaría con dos.</p>
<p>Lo cierto es que las votaciones promovidas por la <a href="http://www.new7wonders.com/">New 7 Wonders</a> no crean maravillas, a penas las nombran como tales. Hay miles de maravillas en el mundo más maravillosas que las siete escogidas. Dése una vuelta y nos dará la razón.</p>
<p>Nos invade una suerte de apesadumbramiento (no el hecho de contar con dos maravillas oficiales)  saber que los peruanos nos ponemos la pilas al momento de votar en concursos de este tipo pero que también votamos y elegimos como congresista  a quienes están detrás de las dragas que matan la Amazonía.</p>
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<p>¿Cuántos sabemos qué fue exactamente Machu Picchu (acaso nos importa)? ¿Cuántos repudiamos las atrocidades que ahora mismo se cometen en contra la selva de Madre de Dios? Es una vergüenza que seamos tan pocos.</p>
<p><a title="Inkaterra Reserva Amazónica" href="http://www.inkaterra.com/en/reserva-amazonica" target="_blank">El Grupo Inkaterra </a>impulsa un esfuerzo heroico desde hace décadas en favor de la conservación de la naturaleza en Tambopata ¿Qué piensa su director, J. Koechlin de las dragas mineras en los ríos que sus viajeros vienen a disfrutar? ¿Qué lleva a un grupo de electores a votar por un <a title="Come Oro" href="http://www.larepublica.pe/19-09-2011/gana-peru-suspende-congresista-apodado-come-oro-amado-romero" target="_blank">innombrable como A.R.</a>?</p>
<p>Ya lo ha dicho con somera claridad el premiado publicista Flavio Pantigoso en su columna del pasado jueves <a title="Defensa marca Perú" href="http://elcomercio.pe/impresa/notas/defensa-marca-peru/20111110/1331178" target="_blank">En defensa de la marca Perú</a>. En lugar de festejar el Grand Prix y mostrando una humildad digna de imitarse, no teme aguar la fiesta:</p>
<p style="text-align:center;">[La marca Perú] <em>es una idea viva en la mente del mundo y, como cualquier marca, si la enriquecemos, crecerá; si la boicoteamos, indefetiblemente se resentirá (&#8230;) </em><em>nos adentramos hacia Madre de Dios, el encanto cede paso a la lacerante visión de la destrucción militante de nuestra selva (&#8230;) Miles de hectáreas siendo arrasadas con total impunidad por bulldozers (&#8230;) La reserva de Tambopata ultrajada (&#8230;) ante nuestra casi absoluta indiferencia. Y esa es la verdadera tragedia. CADA ARBOL TALADO, ESPECIE EXTINGUIDA, CULTURA DEVASTADA ES UNA PUÑALADA A LA MARCA PERU, QUE NO SE SUBSANA CON CLICS &#8216;PARA QUE EL RIO AMAZONAS SEA MARAVILLA DEL MUNDO&#8217;.</em></p>
<p style="text-align:left;">Ya en julio de este año, Robby Ralston,  otro encumbrado publicista había hecho referencia a las declaraciones del agudo observador y director de Métrica Julio Luque; &#8220;El largo camino entre la identidad y la imagen&#8221; (<a title="Coitus Interuptus" href="http://www.robbyralston.com/2011/07/coitus-interruptus/" target="_blank">ver Coitus Interuptus</a>).  Luque, como Pantigoso, les aguó la fiesta hace unos meses.  Señaló que el Perú oficial maneja la Identidad, pues es emisor de contenidos como &#8220;ser un país con dos maravillas del mundo&#8221;. Pero la Imagen es un elemento que vive en la mente del receptor, fuera del control del emisor. En palabras de Ralston; <em>ahora tenemos una Identidad de Marca espectacular, ¡pero nuestra Imagen sigue siendo muy mala! Y no por la publicidad ni por los logos, sino por la realidad misma de nuestro país al que le faltan arreglar muchos temas internos</em>.</p>
<p style="text-align:left;">Esa realidad es la que aflora en los Aduviris que arruinaron el turismo en Puno para el 2011 y quién sabe cuántos años más, es el mercurio y las dragas en la zona de amortiguamiento de Tambopata. Afortunadamente, todavía hay peruanos que se niegan a aceptar esa realidad y proponen una distinta y mejor, como la de <a title="Rainfores" href="http://www.perunature.com/es/acerca-de-tambopata/reserva-nacional-tambopata" target="_blank">Rainforest Expeditions</a>, por ejemplo.</p>
<p style="text-align:left;">Resulta insultante un representante del pueblo del tipo Come Oro que se empeña en perpetuar una imagen como la de la  foto, pero es un acto de suprema ceguera  creer que esa misma Amazonía (de continuar su devastasión) es una maravilla. Si lograr maravillas en concursos (falsa realidad) mientras devastamos la realidad de los hechos (el ecosistema) nos deja tranquilos, entonces es preferible perder todos esos concursos. Y perderlos por goleada. No ganar significa no crear una falsa representación de la realidad y ello nos arrancará la venda de los ojos y caeremos en cuenta de lo que estamos perdiendo en la realidad real.</p>
<p style="text-align:left;">&#8216;Y Machu Picchu ¿Acaso tiene usted la menor idea de qué fue Machu Picchu?</p>
<p style="text-align:left;"><strong>Interésese, lea, viaje</strong>. Opte por Colán en vez de Varadero y separe un par de días para admirar al Señor de Sipán y la Dama de Cao, remonte los andes centrales y conozca la selva de Junín, vaya al Lago Titicaca, y si es limeño y no tiene plata ni tiempo explore el templo oracular de Pachacamac o el Museo Larco. Pero hágalo. Lleve a sus hijos.</p>
<p style="text-align:left;">De lo contrario seguiremos siendo maravillosos. Maravillosamente ignorantes.</p>
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<link>http://mandarichmedia.wordpress.com/2008/04/22/ecotourism-panama-willie-mazu-nattur-center/</link>
<pubDate>Tue, 22 Apr 2008 23:47:48 +0000</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[http://www.ParadiseEarth.com Ecotourism &amp; the Willie Mazu Nattur center located in Panama. Over]]></description>
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