present-coasting, not future
Oops. I got to Peru and never updated again. '06 to '08 with only one slight twinge of guilt.
In a 17 hour chug-a-thon across the least touristed border crossing between two countries since I got stuck between China and Nepal for 11 days, I got from Vilcabamba to Chachapoyas in one day, a high altitude Andean city surrounded by Indiana Jones style archaeological remains. (Really. We're talking going for a walk in the jungle, hoiking up a few creepers, and finding a lost city. Then 300 more just next to it. It's unimaginable.)
It's the kind of place (in Ecuador at least) that travellers whisper to each other about - not really touristed, not really on the travel map yet, nowhere near as superficial and banana pancaked, US millionaire infested as Vilcabamba. It has pre Incan fortresses where you will be alone to commune with the place; strikingly different from 2000-visitors-a-day Machu Picchu. Plus, the third highest waterfall on earth - bizarrely 'discovered' just 3 years ago. It's the regional HQ of Amazonas prefecture, perched on a cloudforest ridge between the coastal desert and the Amazonian jungle, 800 miles from the nearest town, and 12 hours hurtling from a city that sells newspapers, it's a little off the beaten track.
What I'm trying to say is, it's remote.
So anyway, one hour after getting here, and the best burger I ever had in South America, I get speaking to some fella in the Plaza Del Armas, decided to marry him, and stay here forever.
(It was an interesting phone call home.)
And ... that would explain why I didn't update for 18 months. And why the Brazilian postal addresses didn't get much action. Sorry.
In a 17 hour chug-a-thon across the least touristed border crossing between two countries since I got stuck between China and Nepal for 11 days, I got from Vilcabamba to Chachapoyas in one day, a high altitude Andean city surrounded by Indiana Jones style archaeological remains. (Really. We're talking going for a walk in the jungle, hoiking up a few creepers, and finding a lost city. Then 300 more just next to it. It's unimaginable.)
It's the kind of place (in Ecuador at least) that travellers whisper to each other about - not really touristed, not really on the travel map yet, nowhere near as superficial and banana pancaked, US millionaire infested as Vilcabamba. It has pre Incan fortresses where you will be alone to commune with the place; strikingly different from 2000-visitors-a-day Machu Picchu. Plus, the third highest waterfall on earth - bizarrely 'discovered' just 3 years ago. It's the regional HQ of Amazonas prefecture, perched on a cloudforest ridge between the coastal desert and the Amazonian jungle, 800 miles from the nearest town, and 12 hours hurtling from a city that sells newspapers, it's a little off the beaten track.
What I'm trying to say is, it's remote.
So anyway, one hour after getting here, and the best burger I ever had in South America, I get speaking to some fella in the Plaza Del Armas, decided to marry him, and stay here forever.
(It was an interesting phone call home.)
And ... that would explain why I didn't update for 18 months. And why the Brazilian postal addresses didn't get much action. Sorry.
posted by Lectrice at lunes, marzo 17, 2008
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hello!
at least I can RSS this into Reader. I kept forgetting to look you up on the other place, even though and you may not believe this, you were in my thoughts.
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:)
I'm even late answering comments, huh?
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