Ouro Preto-- Macchu Picchu
This morning Jon and I are doing some catching up on internet etc. before leaving the colonial mining town of Ouro Preto (black gold in Portugese) for Belehorizonte. We enjoyed the slow pace and quaint cobblestoned streets of Ouro Preto, although we did not tour the gold and gem mines, which is the thing to do here. Our struggles with Portugese are still comical. We hadn't realized how effective we had become at communicating in Spanish until we arrived in Brazil, where we can't communicate at all!! We can't even seem to remember the word for Hello! Jon is really good at throwing out spanish in what he thinks sounds like a Portugese accent--it works about 10% of the time to communicate, but is hilarious 100% of the time, so it seems like a good strategy. The most important phrase we've learned: no fala Portugese--I don't speak Portugese!
Here are the rest of MP pics:
There she is at sunrise!! The destination of our journey!
The crew at sunrise overlooking the peach
Just one of the magnificent views we reached along the trail. We are higher than the clouds!!
Dan with Llama--no explanation necessary.
The view behind is is the what we saw as we reached the highest point on the trail at 4300 meters. Not bad--we were pretty excited to reach the top on day 2 after hiking uphill for four or five hours!!
The crew at the top of the second peak on day two. After going up to 4300 meters, we went back down to 3600, then back up 600 meters!! Who designed this road?? According to our guide, Speedy, the original Inca trail did not go down into the valley and then back up--of course, they went straight across on a different road. It wasn't until tourists ruined the original trail that it had to be re-routed!! Serves us tourists right, I guess.
This morning Jon and I are doing some catching up on internet etc. before leaving the colonial mining town of Ouro Preto (black gold in Portugese) for Belehorizonte. We enjoyed the slow pace and quaint cobblestoned streets of Ouro Preto, although we did not tour the gold and gem mines, which is the thing to do here. Our struggles with Portugese are still comical. We hadn't realized how effective we had become at communicating in Spanish until we arrived in Brazil, where we can't communicate at all!! We can't even seem to remember the word for Hello! Jon is really good at throwing out spanish in what he thinks sounds like a Portugese accent--it works about 10% of the time to communicate, but is hilarious 100% of the time, so it seems like a good strategy. The most important phrase we've learned: no fala Portugese--I don't speak Portugese!
Here are the rest of MP pics:
There she is at sunrise!! The destination of our journey!
The crew at sunrise overlooking the peach
Just one of the magnificent views we reached along the trail. We are higher than the clouds!!
Dan with Llama--no explanation necessary.
The view behind is is the what we saw as we reached the highest point on the trail at 4300 meters. Not bad--we were pretty excited to reach the top on day 2 after hiking uphill for four or five hours!!
The crew at the top of the second peak on day two. After going up to 4300 meters, we went back down to 3600, then back up 600 meters!! Who designed this road?? According to our guide, Speedy, the original Inca trail did not go down into the valley and then back up--of course, they went straight across on a different road. It wasn't until tourists ruined the original trail that it had to be re-routed!! Serves us tourists right, I guess.
posted by Jon and Kristen | 6:26 AM
1 Comments:
Super pumped to see some good blogging action as of late. Despite my predictions, it looks as though you guys are still having fun sans the Brad/Christine pairing! a remarkable feat! On a more serious note, I would like to extend my thanks once again for hosting us in South America. We had a great time exploreing the Inca Trail with you guys. Can't wait to see you guys in August!
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