The writer died last Sunday 13 April, at the age of 89 […]
Perhaps the most illustrious son of Arequipa, the writer Mario Vargas Llosa, is more famous than his own homeland (at least among the Brazilians, who seem to have their eyes only towards Peruvian destinations such as Lima, Cuzco and Machu Picchu).
Also known as Ciudad BlancaThis city is one of the destinations that should be in its screenplay in the southern Peru.
Arequipa is not only the historic city of buildings made with white volcanic rocks, from which its nickname, but also the address of deep canyons, thermal baths and even the residence of the mummy in better conditions of the Andes.
The only Nobel Prize in Peru literature, the essayist and politician Mario Vargas Llosa, died last April 13, at the age of 89. At the request of LLOSA itself, there will be no public ceremony and its remains will be cremated.
What to do in Arequipa, land of Mario Vargas Llosa
Every morning, the inhabitants of the high mountains of Arequipa leave their homes in areas difficult to access the most awaited show in the region: The Fly Colca Canyon.
The second most populous city in Peru is historical and beautiful, but they are the condominiums that guarantee the most sought -after attraction of the city.
Between 8 and 10, these birds, which have a wingspan over three meters from a wing, go in search of food, stimulated by the hot air flow that facilitates their hypnotizing pendant in the Valle del Colca Valley.
With more than four thousand meters deep, Colca is one of the bad canyons of the world and hosts several lookouts, such as Cruz Do Condor, used to observe animals.
The historical version of Arequipa is due to Monastery de Santa CatalinaCitadella who hosted an old monastery of Cloater Monastery, 5 minutes from the city center.
The attraction is known as “the city inside the city”, an area of 20 thousand m² and four neighborhoods that date back to the urbanization of Arequipa in the early years of the colony. In addition to visiting cloisters and interiors, the place has a view of the Chakan volcano.
The historical journey through Arequipa follows Convent of Santa RosaConstruction of 1747 in honor of the patron saint of Peru, and in the Mirador of Yanahuara, a 19th century guard overlooking the mixed volcanoes, Chachani and Picku Picku, 2 km from the city center.
Of the mountains that we came, we will return
It was with this Andean belief that Peru was able to maintain one of the most important frozen bodies in the world: Juanita, “the lady of ice”.
Found intact in 1995, the young man would have been about 14 years old, when he participated in a ritual of human sacrifice that offered them to Apu Ampato. And it was, precisely, the low temperatures in the upper part of this sacred volcano, 80 km from Arequipa, who preserved the remains of this young woman who was born between 1440 and 1450 AD
The body in perfect conservation condition for more than five centuries has been found at over 6,300 meters above sea level and at a temperature of 20 ° negative. Juanita can currently be seen in Santuarios Andinos Museumin Arequipa.
Recently, the body of the young Juanita Andina has gained an impressive reconstruction by the scientists of the Center for Andean Studies of La Universidad de Warsaw, Poland, and of the Catholic Universidad of Santa María, in Arequipa.
For hyper -realistic sculpture, forensic techniques were used by DNA studies, ethnological characteristics and tomography of the girl’s body. From there, the Swedish archaeologist and artist Oscar Nilson was able to use the Manchester technique to build the face of the young Inca, whose process used the measurements of the skull and determined characteristics such as high cheeks.
Laguna de Salinas
Considered the Uyuni of Arequipa, it is a Salar in the Blanca National Reserve, 60 km from the city.
As with the famous attractive Bolivian, this Salar is a large desert of salt, more than four thousand meters, which in the rainy season guarantees visitors the famous mirror effect of their thin water blades that reflect the sky.
The region is also surrounded by snowy volcanoes such as Mysti and Pichu Picku.
Near the lagoons are the Baños Tertales de Lojen, Natural water pools, natural, warm and bluaster tones. One of the curiosities of the place is the Mini Vulcano Lojen, which allows the visitor to see his crater without any effort.
To better understand the title of White City, the tip is the Sillar pathA tourist script in the Cerro Colorado district, at the foot of the Chakan Vulcano inactive, around the city.
Here is where the visitor walks through the quarries of Sillar White so used in the construction of Arequipa, thanks to its lightness and porosity, and in shades ranging from white to pink, due to the minerals present in the rocks.
How to come
Arequipa is about 1h15 on the floor of Lima.
For those who go to the ground, the long journey lasts about 26 hours, also from the capital of Peru.
Source: Terra
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