Lima
Mercedes-Benz
On Monday morning as of 7:30 I expected before Mercedes-Benz the
opening at 8:00 of Servicio Express. My vehicle was dealt with
knowing that it is not marketed in Peru, therefore few spare parts.
I should recover it on Wednesday. By taxi chartered by Mercedes-Benz
I went in Hitchhikers Hotel.
Visits, click the picture
On Tuesday, January 5th I left to visit Centro Historico de Lima as
of 8:30 by taking a taxi. It was a long day of painful walk for my
knees and the hips, osteoarthritis. The morning was devoted to Museo
de Inquisicion, Plaza Bolivar, to Monasterio San Francisco (I made
the dead end of the museum, because No Photo), in Estacion
Desamparados, transformed into library, with a splendid canopy, then
in Plaza de Armas with Catedral de Lima. While walking on I stopped
in Museo de Choco for a chocolate tasting which I appreciate. To
Plaza San Martin I threw a glance external in Gran Hotel Bolivar.
Museo de Arte de Lima, MALI, click the picture
The beginning of afternoon occurred at Museo de Arte de Lima, MALI.
The first level was devoted to a retrospective of the work of the
Peruvian photographer Chambi, No Photo. The second level is devoted
to the permanent collection of pre-Columbian art as well as Colonial
art and Contemporary art. The wealth of the collections makes
impossible all to see in only one visit. I returned by Taxi at
Hitchhikers in harassed.
Mercedes-Benz
On Wednesday, January 6th I recovered my vehicle around 15:00. All
the maintenance work at 60,000 km was completed, except the change
of the shock absorbers, fault of spare parts for this vehicle. The
shop foreman returned me it pampered by a team of two men, it
was like new. I gave the Excellence award to the
Divemotor workshop, Mercedes-Benz dealer.
Peninsula of Paracas
I left Lima without regret, its pollution and its erratic traffic,
to go to Nazca with a bivouac stop in the peninsula of Paracas.
Panamericana Sur transverse in quasi straight line a landscape
between dunes and Ocean (Pacific). Many beaches snuggled in splits
behind dunes attract travellers for a balneal rest. I stopped to
lunch in Pisco, destroyed by an earthquake in 2007, at the very
famous restaurant As de Oro's of international class. I thus
bivouacked in the Peninsula of Paracas. The morning was like always
misty in this very season with an appearance of the sun at the
beginning of afternoon.
Panamericana Sur
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| Lunch at As de Oro's, Pisco |
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| Bivouac in Peninsula of Paracas |
The GPS road tracklog
from Paracas à Cusco
from 2016/01/08 au 2016/01/10
Nazca
In 1939 a scientific expedition in search of ancien irrigations
discovered the famous Nazca Lines registered at the World heritage
of Humanity. As thirty years ago I flew over them in the low-powered
aircraft but this time accompanied by three South Korean young
girls. The catch of photographs is problematic and random in half an
hour of flight return ticket. I expose three of them increased,
Astronaut, Hummingbird and Monkey. Maria Reiche, a German
mathematician, carried out all her life of research to explain the
origin of the 800 lines, 300 geometrical figures and the 70 animals.
But finally nobody knows. I established my bivouac at the Maison
Suisse.
Nazca Lines, click la photo
Ruta #30a
The ruta #30a from Nazca to Cusco is long approximately 640 km in
Los Andes. It curves, twist with leisure with waiting behind the
trucks heavily charged. It passes several passes of which the
highest is at 4571 meters of altitude. I drove 9:30, stops included,
to traverse 396 km. I found a bivouac on the side of the road at the
edge of a river at about ten kilometers from Abancay. Traffic is not
very dense, I hoped a peaceful night.
En route "de Nazca a Abencay", click la photo
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| Sunset at 5:30 pm |
Cusco
On Sunday, January 10th was the second driving day to reach Cusco at
3608 meters of altitude given by GPS. On the way the highest pass
was at +4000 m of altitude. The morning was gloomy with a covered
weather up to Cusco, it is the rain season. There were few campers
at the Quinta Lala campground. I spent the afternoon to the
administrative work of publication and to my acclimatization before
the visit of Cusco.
Route "de Abancay a Cusco"
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| En route |
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| Cusco, camping Quinta Lala |
