Lugares Impresionantes means Impressionable places. In other words, places that will make an impression on you. I have a book in my classroom called 1,000 places to see before you die. Well alumnos, as we have been studying Peru, Ecuador, y Bolivia you have learned that they are fascinating countries. I am about to give detail on three places you must know about before we stop learning about these three countries.
The first is in Peru. In a place called Nasca (sometimes written Nazca). Here the once pre-Incan indians called the Nasca Indians lived. They had a very large civilization abut 2,000 years ago. The Nasca Indian really became famous when their amazing geoglyphs were discovered in the 1930's. Paul Kosok and Marie Reiche discovered then when flying over the area. Marie studied the geoglyphs and fought to protect them until her death in the 1998. There is record of the lines documented by a conquistador in 1547. There are thousands of geoglyphs. Many are of animals, people, and geometrical shapes. Reiche came up with theories about the glyphs as communication to the gods of the Nasca. The shapes have remained after all of these years because the lines are located in the desert where many, many years can pass without rain. Some people believe that they were created by aliens. To be able to see these amazing drawings in the land check out the following youtube video about the Nasca Lines.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FRNNjbBCGMI
I recently visited with a family friend from Ecuador. I asked her what she thought was truly unique about Ecuador that I could share with my students. She suggested I tell you about the aboriginal tride still existing today in Ecuador. The group of indians is called the Tsachila. The name means true people. This group are famous for men placing a red paste in their hair turning their hair red. The paste is made from a seed called achiote. According to the Tsachila, when the Spanish arrived, they brought much disease and illness. A Tsachila leader prayed to their god for a rememdy to ward off death from the disease, and when he woke the sun was shinning on an achiote plant. To this day the Tsachila still place the red paste in their hair and wear a traditional skirt with black and white horizontal lines. Today the Tsachila live near a popular city in Ecuador located just where the Andes and the tropical jungle meet, near a city called Santo Domingo de los Colorados.
Check out the following blog with a couple of pictures of the Tsachila.
http://watchingquito.blogspot.com/2007/06/tsachila.html
The highest lake in the world is the famous Lago Titicaca. Lake Titicaca is a most sacred place when it comes to Inca religion and mythology, as it was here that the first Inca king, Manco Capac, was born by the sun god, Inti. Manco would create the Kingdom of Cusco, thus beginning the Inca Empire. If you make it to the Bolivian town of Copacabana, where pilgrims from all over the continent come to get the Virgin’s blessing, then you can take a boat to the Isla del Sol. There is a sacred rock here which marks the point from which Manco Capac emerged.
Check out the following website for some information and pictures of Lake Titicaca.
http://www.laketiticaca.org/
After exploring the above, please comment in detail your thoughts on these places, did they leave an impression on you?
9 comments:
I loved the video on the Nasca Lines.It's so interesting that these drawings were made in the ground to look like animals and people. My favorite had to be the spider,I almost didn't recognize it. I had to pause the video. Tsachila is intersting too. I saw one of the pictures of a guy rubbing some red powder on his head.I'm curious to know why in fact that they use it.I would most love to visit Lake Titicaca,because it looks so beautiful and peaceful.It's so blue and serene looking. It is probably clearer than some oceans.
Gracias Angela por su comentario! Que bueno que te gustó!
The Nasca lines were amazing. They must have had some really good artists in order to make those shapes look so good when they could not see the shapes from above. The Tsachila were neat. I would like to know if they had lesser death rates from disease than other people when the Spanish came. Lake Titicaca is interesting because it is the highest lake and so beautiful. I would like to go there and explore the neighboring towns. Then I would take lots of pictures!
I loved the Nasca Lines video i think it is absoulutely amzing that people here on Earth could actually create something as beautiful and elaborate as that . Tsachila why exactly was that guy rubing the red stuff on his head and isn't it hard to get out once you want to get it out.Lake Titicaca was so beautiful i would love to vivit it someday i wish we had some place like that around here i would visit it everyday just to read a book.
i loved the Nasca Lines video. it was soooooooo interestering. i would love to visit there some day. i mean they had to be VERY skilled to do that without being able to go up in the air and see it. me and my mom totally enjoyed the clip and wanna go. the Tsachila (teach me how to say that in 6th) was pretty awesome. the guys paiting their hair red. i told my mom i wanted to do that. the Lake Titicaca. OMG!!!!!!!!!!!!! that was the biggest most beautiful lake EVER. i would so love to go there one summer. Can you swim in the lake? anyways, i didn't like the others as much as i liked the Nasca Lines. those things are absolutely incredible.
The video on the Nasca lines was very intersting and also important. Imagine, these people had to be pretty smart in orer to do those drawings. And the biggest question of all would be how did they see the finished projects from the sky. Imagine how that could change history. Maybe they had irplanes? Second I thought the Tsachila was very fum imagine seeing guys walk around with red hair, how cool. I wonder if we could find some ofthe seeds the use in order to dye their hair. And last Lake Titicaca was beauiful how I would love o sit up their, though I might run out of air.
The Nasca Lines were fascinating. It points to the fact that maybe all of the things we think were invented in the last century or so might have existed thousands of years ago. They must have had some kind of airplane or a device to go up to the sky for them to make such beautiful figures. The Tsachila people were intresting. There are such people in India, too, who haven't progressed with time and still live the way they did thousands of years ago, like cavemen. Lake Titicaca looks beautiful but I bet it is very uncomfortable being so high up. All of these places, except maybe the Quito people, are places that I would like to go to some day.
Well i didn’t get to see the video because I was in your classroom.
But the Tsachila were very interesting because they thought god wanted them to use that plant maybe he did though..it was just neat how they put it in their hair….lake Titicaca is a very beautiful and wonderful place..it looks like, that would be somewhere I would love to visit one day…
I liked the video on the Nasca. Is it possible that those drew the pictures for the gods above them?
The men with the red hair was interesting. And the Lake was incredible.--Tatiana Scott
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