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Tagged Accommodation, Backpacking, Food, Latin America, South America, Transportation
Posted in English
Tagged Accommodation, Backpacking, Food, Latin America, South America, Transportation
Posted in English
Tagged Accommodation, Backpacking, Food, Latin America, South America, Transportation
Posted in English
Tagged Accommodation, Backpacking, Food, Latin America, South America, Transportation
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10 months we were on the road together, the 3 of us together. We laughed, we cried and we learned together, we grew, we understood, we accepted, we thanked. And now it’s time to move on, towards a new (in fact old, both for us and in itself) continent. The end of this experience is the beginning of another: HOME! “Mixed feelings” doesn’t begin to cover it.
For the past 10 months we have slept in more than 100 beds…couches, mattresses, floors, tents, buses, boats, planes. Eaten at more than 500 tables. Have moved by means of plane, bus, jeep, car, bicycle, horse, tuk-tuk, minivan, boat, ferry, train, metro, own two feet, big bus, small bus, fancy bus, 100-years-old bus, motorcycle, lifts.
Out of the 10 months, we were guests for 4.
We spent a week in the company of an Inca Priest, went to church for Easter with very Catholic Chileans and then spent 3 weeks in a Hari Krishna Yoga Park. We meditated in silence for 10 days during a Buddhist meditation retreat, then spent 2 months in Peru with healers, shamans and people following the Mayan Calender.
We stopped being tourists fairly early, and instead became world travelers (the main distinction between the two, as I see it, is that the first experience things mainly with their eyes and mind, while the latter find their heart transformed). That is just who we are and will be. For now though, a big stage is about to end, and another one about to begin. There is uncertainty all around, but one thing we know for sure: we are so grateful for the experience and support we have been offered for the past 10 months, and for all the incredible people we have in our lives, regardless of distance and place. Thank you!!
So… are we afraid of going home?
I’m speaking for myself now, but Boca’s feelings are quite similar. The word is “scared shitless”!
I left home four years ago for a one year experience in Singapore, because experiencing Asia was something I just had to “get out of my system” before “settling down”. Now, four years later, I am aware that traveling, exploring and discovering are some things I will never “get out of my system”. That it’s not a hobby, not a dream, not something on my bucket list. It is instead who I am. It is a part of me, just as I am a part of the same world I am dying to explore. Getting to know it helps me know myself more, and getting to understand myself more helps me understand the world more. A mutual relationship that I found really works (for me).
Do I know what’s waiting for me once I get home? Not a clue! Well, that’s not entirely true, some things I can already see in my mind’s eye: legions of extended family members, smiling ear to ear “you’re finally home, we’ve been waiting for you since…” (the truth is probably since the day after I left). Lots of friends, old and not so old, some I will easily reconnect with, some I will never quite be on the same “wave length” with again. People with lots of opinions about my experience, about what I should be doing next, about my life. MY life, that is.
Probably that’s what will happen. Definitely. Maybe.
Scared shitless I said… so what am I afraid of?
So… is that enough to keep me from going home?
Not a chance! I’ve never known it more strongly in my bones. This is it, and the time is now:).
What am I most excited about?
From Boca: I wanted to read the post, to make some changes, add on some things, but the only thing I see or feel differently is that I am not so much looking forward to see Romanian TV, rather Hungarian J otherwise, my sis said all perfectly!
Conclusions after these 10 months?
Only one – life really is how we make it.
So be it! Amen! Arie! Aho! Haiaia!
Gracias a todos, love you always!!
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10 hónapig voltunk úton együtt, hárman együtt. Nevetünk, sírtunk és tanultunk is együtt, feljődtünk, megértettünk, elfogadtunk és hálát adtunk. De most eljött az idő, hogy tovább lépjünk, egy új (vagyis igazából egy régi mind nekünk, mind önmagában) kontinens felé. Eme élmény vége egyben a kezdete egy újnak: OTTHON! „Összezavarodott, s vegyes érzések” nem is elég, hogy kifejezzük amit érzünk.
Az elmúlt 10 hónapban több, mint 100 ágyban aludtunk… kanapékon, matracokon, vagy csak a földön, sátrakban, buszokon, repülőkön s még hajókón is. Több, mint 500 asztalról ettünk. Utaztunk repülővel, busszal, terepjáróval, autóval, biciklivel, lóval, tuk-tukkal, kisbusszal, hajóval, komppal, metróval, vonattal, a saját 2 lábunkon, drága busszal, olcsó busszal, nagy busszal és kicsivel, újjal és 100 évessel is, motorral, s lifttel…
A 10 hónapból 4et vendégként töltöttük.
Egy hetet töltöttünk egy Inka pap társaságában Peruban, Húsvétkor egy Katolikus templomban ünnepeltünk Chilében, 3 hetet töltöttünk egy Hare Krishna Yoga Parkban Argentínában, majd smét Peruban egy 10 napos néma Buddhista meditációs táborban voltunk, ezek után 2 hónapot töltöttünk gyógyítókkal, sámánokkal és emberekkel akik a Maya kalendáriumot követik.
Megszüntünk tursiták lenni elég korán, s helyette Világ Utazókká válltunk (különbség a kettő között szerintünk, hogy az első csak a szemével, s eszével érzékeli a világot, a második emellett a szívével). Egyszerűen csak ezek vagyunk, s leszünk is. Egyenlőre egy nagyobb része a végéhez közeledik, s egy másik éppen csak kezdődik. Ami körül vesz minket az a nagy bizonytalanság, de 1 dolgot biztosra tudunk: kimondhatatlanul hálásak vagyunk az élményért, s a segítségért, amit az elmut 10 hónapban kaptunk, s minden csodálatos emberért, akik az életünk része távolság és hely ellenére. Köszönjük!
Akkor… félünk e haza menni?
Kimondhatatlanul. Ugye most sokan kérdezhetik, hogy dehát ez volt az életed 4 évig, hogy új helyekre menj és szokatlan szituációkban találd föl magad. Akkor hazaköltözni miért más? Hisz az ráadásul nem is új vagy szokatlan? Ez az otthonod?
Igen ám, de 4 év alatt sokat válltozik az ember. Olyan dolgokat tapasztaltam, olyan dolgokon mentem keresztül, melyeket mások egy életen keresztül élnek át, vagy még akkor sem. Megváltoztam. S a világ is megválltozott. Már nem ugyan az a Boca és nem ugyanaz a Magyarország fog majd kezet hazatéréskor.
Persze a szerncse az, hogy tudom ki vagyok, s tudom mit akarok. Mit akrok az élettől és a következő 1-3 évtől. Szabad akaratomból térek haza nem azért mert nincs más választásom. Én EZT választottam, s tudom miért! Terveimet ésszel és szívvel is eldöntöttem. Persze ezek a tervek sokaknak majd furcsák, avagy kivitelezhetetlenek lesznek, s tudom, hogy mindenki bőkezűen fogja osztogatni tanácsait, hogy mit igen, s mit ne tegyek…
Szóval félek… de mitől?
Szóval… akkor ez elég, hogy ne menjek haza?
Semmi esetre sem! Valami belső késztetés mondja már vagy 2 éve, hogy térjek haza egy időre, s otthon válltsam valóra terveimet. S eme belső érzés erősebb minden félelemnél.
S mit várok a legjobban?
Konklúzió 10 hónap után
Csak egy – az élet tényleg olyan, amilyenné mi tesszük.
Így legyen! Arie! Aho! Haiaiai! Áman!
Köszönet mindenkinek, szeretlek titeket!
(Disclaimer: the following is relevant mainly for the Sacred Valley and Lake Titikaka, as we spent the four months only in these two regions, so things are probably different in other places)
Daily budget: USD27 – 73 Soles
Actual daily expenditure: USD13
Cities visited
Most expensive city: Quillabamba, Ollantaytambo, Lima
Cheapest city: Calca, Urubamba
Favorite city: Calca, Ollantaytambo, Cusco (although we wouldn’t mind if there were less tourists in the last 2)
What to do in the Sacred Valley of Peru
Most challenging thing: leaving the Sacred Valley… 🙂
ACCOMMODATION
Most expensive accommodation: 15 Soles person/night in Quillabamba, no internet and no breakfast
Cheapest accommodation: 7.5 Soles person/night n Cusco, San Blas, Casa de la Abuela without breakfast but with Internet
Favorite accommodation: Our favorite places were the ones we stayed in for weeks as guests, in places such as Calca, Cusco or Lima
FOOD
In Peru we mostly had the traditional Peruvian food, and our lunch was most often the Menu of the Day. Although it almost always contained meat, there was no problem for the nice people there to change the meat for egg or salad, or prepare an Arroz ala Cubana instead. Unlike in other countries, in Peru we cooked a lot at home, mainly because we stayed for long periods of time in the same location, and had access to a kitchen.
Favorite food: ceviche, pink trout from Lake Titikaka, fruit salad from the market, Churros, rice pudding, Arroz ala Cubana
What we didn’t like very much: the soup with the famous frozen potato
For a comprehensive description of Peruvian food, please visit the following articles:
https://threebackpacks.wordpress.com/2011/11/13/peruvian-delicacies-what-to-eat-and-where/
https://threebackpacks.wordpress.com/2011/12/08/peruvian-delicacies-ii/
TRANSPORT
Our experience with long distance transport varied a lot – from Puerto Maldonado, a town at the border with Brazil, to Cusco and from Puno to Tacna, at the border with Chile, we contemplated suicide on the night bus. The bus from Cusco to Lima was more than decent though, although not very cheap (the quality of the buses and the prices of the trips from Cusco to Lima are extremely varied, ranging from 130-185 Soles, and from normal bus seats to presidential seats with a recline of 160 degrees. From what we understood, the best company is Cruz del Sur, 180 Soles, and the second best is Tespa, 140 Soles. We chose Tespa, and we definitely recommend it). In Peru it’s worth buying “cama” tickets, as the seats are much wider and more comfortable, and the prices aren’t much higher. Between cities people usually travel in minivans, and the system is “we pick you up from anywhere on the road and you just scream when you want to get down.”There are big buses connecting cities as well, but you can only take them from the bus terminal and they’re not as frequent as the minivans. Within cities the most common means of transport are “autos”, as they call them here, a 2 people vehicle similar to the Thai tuk-tuk or Indian rickshaw.
The best thing in the country: the indescribably soothing environment, the wonderful people, the harmonious combination of mountains, lakes, rivers, blue sky and clouds that God painted so incredibly beautiful over there. Lake Titikaka, the traditions in the Sacred Valley, the Inca ruins … and, of course, the one and only magical Machu Picchu
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