Christian Jessen » Travelling
Using Foursquare To Discover Santiago
Since I bought my iPhone 4 back in December, I have been playing around with Foursquare. Since I haven’t had a 3G plan for my phone yet, it has just been when I was at places with WiFi, usually Starbucks or similar places. However in Lima, I mostly just used it to check-in and play around, share where I was and what I was doing – the general stuff. Now I found some new uses for Foursquare, which makes me love my iPhone even more.
Adios Peru – Hola Chile!
Almost 1 year ago, I took a crazy decision while travelling through Lima about living in Peru. The plan was to take at least a year in Lima, and as it is possible to see from my earlier post, I was quite excited about staying in Lima in the beginning. A few weeks ago I took a decision in the same league, just as sudden and crazy as the last time.
Pictures from Lima, Peru
I have been very busy with my work in Easy-Web lately, and havent really had the time to post on this blog. Havent really felt inspired to write that much the last couple of weeks, but I hope to start blogging some more in the upcoming time. Hopefully I can keep a steady flow and write at least one post per week. I have been working on optimizing some SEO (Search Engine Optimizing) of my blog lately, and I can already see that it really helped. I think I will properly write a few posts about SEO and different aspects of what I’m trying to do on my blog to help the search engines find me.
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The Nazca Lines, Peru
Another must-see for many people when travelling in Peru, and South America in general, is the amazing Nazca Lines. Basically it is figures created in the desert around Nazca, which can only be seen from the air. It is estimated that the lines are created around 200 BC to 700 AD by the Nazca culture. This is the main attraction of Nazca, and often the only reason to go there. (more…)
The Machu Picchu ruins and the Inca trail, Cusco
The most famous thing in Peru is definitely the Machu Picchu ruins near the city of Cusco. Basically it is one of the biggest and most well-preserved Inca ruins in the world, and is a must-see if you travel through Peru. The Peruvian government is currently limiting the amount of people who can go to the ruins, and will properly be more and more restrictive about the ruins, so go see them while you can.
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Studying Spanish in Cusco, Peru
I arrived to Cusco Monday morning, and met with Jude whom I studied Spanish with, in Sucre. We decided to take another week of Spanish lessons in Cusco since we felt we needed to get some more lessons about the verbs in the past. We left Sucre with the same level of Spanish, so it made perfect sense to find a school together.
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Isla del Sol in Lake Titicaca, Copacabana
Lake Titicaca is among the highest navigable lakes in the world, with its altitude of 3820 meter above sea level. It’s a huge lake that’s more than 230 km long, 97 km wide and has a lot of amazing history. The Incas believe that their first emperor rose from the Titicaca rock (Rock of the Puma), and the legend says that the sun was born here. In addition to all this, the Isla del Sol and Lake Titicaca in general, is a very beautiful place, surrounded by the mountains in this crazy high altitude.
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The Death Road, La Paz
Road going under waterfalls
The road going down from La Cumbre to Coroico near La Paz is rumored to be “The Death Roadâ€, because of the dangerous conditions, narrow road and not less than 3345 meters of vertical descent. Though the road isn’t as dangerous anymore, because they build a new highway, and closed “The Death Road†for traffic, so now it is pretty much just bikers and the buses following the bikes going down the road.
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Carnival in Oruro, la Diablada
Carnival show in Oruro
This weekend was the big carnival in Oruro, la Diablada, one of the biggest carnivals in the world. We left Sucre Thursday night, and got to the apartment we were staying in at Friday morning. Since it was impossible to book a hostel (we tried several times, but each time they cancelled our booking), we found a guy who rented a floor in a big house with no furniture. We had to sleep on the floor, but at carnival it doesn’t really matter, as you don’t expect to get much sleep anyway. It was only 50 boliviano per night, compared to hotels charging between 60 and 100 dollars per night, with minimum 3 nights.
Learning Spanish in Sucre, Bolivia
I’m not really doing that much here in Sucre, besides learning Spanish at Academia Latinoamericana de Español. It feels like I’ve learned a lot in a week, but there is still very much to learn. It’s very hard to speak Spanish, and explain things, because of my very little vocabulary. I’m learning so many new words every day, but it is so hard to remember them all, and to construct sentences when you don’t remember half of the words. I can understand a lot more Spanish than, but it’s still difficult when they speak so fast.
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