Connected By Energy

  (ENG) In this last period many things are changing. My plans and itineraries are transforming very quickly. Sometimes I get a little stressed by this. I realize it requires a lot of energy and I feel it consumes me. It is nothing serious and certainly many people feel this every day in their daily lives. There are many factors here that can determine your tomorrow and sometimes these factors have nothing to do with you. Actually, because it is my point of view, they are very much connected with me. What I mean is that I am not in control of them. I also happened to try to direct and do it the way I wanted to do it, but most of the time it didn't really go very well. My initial plan for these months is constantly changing, and as I try to adapt and cope with new situations, I also always have to think about tomorrow. At least roughly, because some things have to be done on time. For example, I know that in South America, I can travel without a visa, but at the same time I always h...

(ENG) You won't believe it but it really exists. Just kidding, maybe many of you were already aware of it. I wasn't. It was a chance discovery, made on my first night in Cusco, looking on Google Maps. I keep telling myself that I should get at least a little more information before I leave, maybe. But then again, the information comes to me somehow. I like to think it's just what needs to come to me. In any case, when I saw the name of this park, I laughed. But then, as I walked around the city, I saw that it is really famous. And it has every reason to be. I decided to make the investment and try to visit it. At least in part. Everything is impossible. It is very big and it is a protected reserve. Think about the fact that within it, not only are there still unstudied species, and here I am talking about both flora and fauna, but even there are unknown tribes. Are we sure about this? Yes, because sightings have been there at the borders of the park. Sightings that have hap...

  (ENG) Today was one of those days where I crossed some limits and achieved a personal best. I woke up at 3:15 in the morning, or we can say in the night, and got ready to leave. To my disappointment, I discovered that there was no running water in the hostel. Not even having anyone to complain to at that hour, I left by chewing gum and at least wiping my face with a washcloth. I went to the meeting point at the appointed time. I found that to do these things, it is virtually impossible to do them on your own. You have to rely on a tour with a respective guide. The good thing is that there is so much competition that the prices are low. However, this makes it so that, like me, you arrive at the meeting place and there are a lot of minibuses waiting. You have to find yours. Or they have to find you. But it seems that in all the chaos everyone manages to find themselves. After catching up with everyone, we made about 2 hours on the road and then stopped for breakfast. Not too heavy,...

(ENG) I can't always write. I don't always feel like it, maybe. I don't always have the energy. A lot of times I get to the place where I'm sleeping at night and I'm just wiped out. Right now I'm not volunteering, so technically I'm not working. But even on these days of course I can't sit still. I would feel like I was wasting time. This evening, for example, the temptation to just throw myself into bed was very strong. But at the same time I must also admit that I enjoy writing. It also helps me put things in order and fix what I am experiencing better in my mind. And then there's so much going on here, if I fall behind, then it becomes difficult to catch up.  These last few days have been devoted, for the most part, to Cusco. Before I started planning my trip to Peru, honestly I had not even heard of it. It is actually a very important city, in many ways. Let's say that, first of all, if you want to visit Machu Picchu, passing through this pla...

(ENG) I am still in Peru. I will be here for a while longer. I feel like this land has so much to offer. The more I stay here and visit, the more I find there are things to do and see. Today I decided to go to the sacred valley. The valley generated and crossed by the Urubamba River. This is a special waterway. Not only because it is the creator of this place, but also because it is a watercourse that is an important contributor to the birth of the Amazon. I'm not saying it's its source, but in any case it seems really interesting to me. And this is just the beginning. This valley really offers so much and to make the most of my time, I decided to take a one-day tour. It was definitely worth it, because to do everything I did today, on my own, would have taken 3 days and I would have ended up spending even much more. In addition, we were fortunate to have an enthusiastic and knowledgeable guide. I discovered a world. Simply a world. Now my brain is full of information and my he...

  (ENG) Today was another day in which I had to say goodbye. I can't say that I'm getting used to it, despite the fact that in the last 3 months I've really experienced a lot of such moments. I have been in Mesa Pata almost 3 weeks.That is not a lot of time, however, I can say that it was a lot of time. Not in the sense that I was bad or that it was heavy, however the days somehow here were really long. I admit that we woke up early, usually at dawn we had our first coffee. But it is also true that usually by 8 p.m. we were all already in our own space for the night. In any case, it was not the operating hours, though many, that stretched the time, but everything that happened in it. Nothing was predictable. Every morning I savored my coffee at the "mirador." For me it was a very special place. From here you could look over Machu Picchu, city and mountain. But not only that. It was all surrounded by mountains, 8 of them snow-capped. Often and often the clouds that...

  (ENG) Today I was able to visit Machu Picchu. The famous one. I must first premise that unless you do it in a tourist way, maybe with a tour, it is not such an easy thing to do. If you start from Cusco, there is a train, which I have seen and it is very nice. The problem is that it costs $70. The route. Alternatively, there is a colectivo. That one costs significantly less, but it takes you 10 km away. Then you have to walk. Be careful though, this is to get to Aguas Calientes. Here the race for tickets begins. You can't get, say, a permit to enter in the morning to enter in the afternoon. The procedure, and I just learned this yesterday, is pretty much this: you show up at the cultural office, possibly in the morning, and register with your passport. You then receive a number with a time between 3 p.m. and 10 p.m. With that you can then access the actual counters in order to get your tickets. If you're good for the next day. If not for the next one still. I did not leave fro...