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While visiting Peru I stepped outside my comfort zone to talk to locals, give them a compliment, and ask for their portrait. You can read the full story here: www.contiki.com/six-two/lauren-randolph-photographer-kind...
Ārlietu ministrijas Ekonomisko un divpusējo attiecību direkcijas vadītāja – vēstniece Elita Kuzma tikās ar Peru ārkārtējo un pilnvaroto vēstnieku Latvijā Pablo Ugo Portugalu Rodrigezu (Pablo Hugo Portugal Rodriguez) vēstnieka akreditācijas vizītes ietvaros.
2010.gada 26.oktobrī
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Foto: Ārlietu ministrija
Barranco is one of 43 districts in Lima, Peru. Its current mayor is Jessica Vargas and its postal code is 04.
The district is considered to be the city's most romantic and bohemian, being the home and working place of many of Peru's leading artists, musicians, designers and photographers. In the 19th-century, it was a very fashionable beach resort for the Limeño aristocracy, and many people used to spend the summer here and in neighboring Chorrillos.
Today, Barranco's beaches are among the most popular within the worldwide surfing community, and a marina completed in 2008 provides state-of-the-art services for its yacht club.
The name Barranco (Spanish for ravine) is descriptive of its topography, featuring homes and restaurants in and around a ravine near a cliff overlooking a sand strip which runs from the Miraflores District to Chorrillos (now flanked by a highway, Costa Verde Ave.).
The Nazca Lines are a series of geoglyphs located in the Nazca Desert, a high arid plateau that stretches more than 80 kilometres (50 mi) between the towns of Nazca and Palpa on the Pampas de Jumana in Peru. Although some local geoglyphs resemble Paracas motifs, these are largely believed to have been created by the Nazca culture between 200 BC and 700 AD. There are hundreds of individual figures, ranging in complexity from simple lines to stylized hummingbirds, spiders, monkeys, fish, sharks or orcas, llamas, and lizards. What is amazing is that despite beng made thousands of years before manned flight existed they can only be appreciated from the air. So what the hell were they for?!? One theory of the purpose of the lines is that the Nazca people's motivations were religious and that the images were constructed so that gods in the sky could see them. Another is that they were intended to point to the places on the distant horizon where the sun and other celestial bodies rose or set. The lines were made by removing the reddish-brown iron oxide-coated pebbles that cover the surface of the Nazca desert. When the gravel is removed, the light-colored earth beneath creates lines which contrast sharply against the surrounding desert. There are several hundred simple curvilinear animal and human figures. The area encompassing the lines is nearly 500 square kilometres (190 sq mi), and the largest figures can be nearly 270 metres (890 ft). The lines persist due to the extremely dry, windless, and constant climate of the Nazca region. The Nazca desert is one of the driest on Earth and maintains a temperature around 25 °C (77 °F) all year round, and the lack of wind has helped keep the lines uncovered to the present day
Perú, Lima, Miraflores : Disfrutando de la vista en el Malecón de Miraflores ... me relaja y me tranquiliza después de un dia agitado .
En la sede del Ministerio de Relaciones Exteriores, se llevó a cabo hoy la presentación de la tercera edición de la Semana del Migrante “Contigo Perú”, que estuvo encabezada por el Ministro de Trabajo y Promoción del Empleo, Alfonso Grados Carraro; el Director General de Comunidades Peruanas en el Exterior y Asuntos Consulares de la Cancillería, Embajador Julio Florián Alegre; el Jefe de la Misión OIM, José Iván Dávalos; y el Director de la Mesa de Trabajo Intersectorial para la Gestión Migratoria, Ministro SDP, Carlos Vallejo Martell.
ook a break from landscapes and Snow mountains. This time in PERU. Streets, Colorful people, 3399meters altitude, less oxygen, llamas, cocoa tea..list continues. People come to Peru to see Machu Picchu. We are going there as well. But this time since I got bored with landscape, thought of spending some time clicking people and colors.
Day 1: Peru - Cusco - Still haven't got our luggage. Its stuck somewhere in Miami. We are roaming around wearing the same dress for the second day. Since llamas smell as bad as us, no one is noticing it. My innerwears are almost near to the Chernobyl radiation level. I hope we will get the luggage tomorrow. Very less people speak English here. We are managing with "Ola" and "Gracias". This is the third day am having sleep less nights. That plus mountain sickness is giving me high. These red colors are getting into my head. We went to Chinchero village in the evening and spend time with a weaving family. They were nice and polite. Cusco is dusty like LEH, but colorful like Morocco. Old streets, Inca ruins, lot of things pending here. Will update details soon.
Day 2. Went to Pisac market which is ~40kms from Cusco. Colorful market. Paradise for shopping.
Day 3: Machu Picchu, an Incan city of sparkling granite precariously perched between 2 towering Andean peaks, is thought by scholars to have been a sacred archaeological center for the nearby Incan capital of Cusco. Built at the peak of the Incan Empire in the mid-1400s, this mountain citadel was later abandoned by the Incas. The site remained unknown except to locals until 1911, when it was rediscovered by archaeologist Hiram Bingham. The site can only be reached by foot, train or helicopter; most visitors visit by train from nearby Cusco.
The most important and prestigious religious building in Peru, the Monasterio de Santa Catalina is a convent which housed almost two hundred secluded nuns and three hundred servants from the late sixteenth century until it opened some of its outer doors to the public in 1970. Its enormous complex of rooms, cloisters and tiny plazas takes a good hour or two to explore. Some thirty nuns still live here today.
Originally the concept of Gaspar Vae in 1570, though only granted official licence five years later, the convent was funded by the Viceroy Toledo and the wealthy Maria de Guzmán, who later entered the convent with one of her sisters and donated all her riches to the community. The most striking feature is its predominantly Mudéjar style, adapted by the Spanish from the Moors, but which rarely found its way into their colonial buildings. The quality of the design is emphasized and harmonized by a superb interplay between the strong sunlight, white stone and brilliant colours in the ceilings and the deep-blue sky above the maze of narrow interior streets.
Saenz Pena Promenade - completed by 1912; European-style homes built throughout the early 20th century. Promenade includes a sculpture to Neptune, and an obelisk monument to General Jose de San Martin.
About Barranco:
Barranco is one of 43 districts in Lima, Peru. Its current mayor is Jessica Vargas and its postal code is 04.
The district is considered to be the city's most romantic and bohemian, being the home and working place of many of Peru's leading artists, musicians, designers and photographers. In the 19th-century, it was a very fashionable beach resort for the Limeño aristocracy, and many people used to spend the summer here and in neighboring Chorrillos.
Today, Barranco's beaches are among the most popular within the worldwide surfing community, and a marina completed in 2008 provides state-of-the-art services for its yacht club.
The name Barranco (Spanish for ravine) is descriptive of its topography, featuring homes and restaurants in and around a ravine near a cliff overlooking a sand strip which runs from the Miraflores District to Chorrillos (now flanked by a highway, Costa Verde Ave.).