I have decided to leave my country and make a two-year lasting trip to South America which is symbolized by the tattoo that I have placed on my back. This tattoo is the map of South America which I will have get inked further by local tattoo artists on my route marking all the places that I will visit during my journey.
That’s why I call this project The map on my back.
Route...!
Why South America? First of all I chose for this continent because I have always been impressed by the great civilizations and people that have lived on this geography in ancient history. It wouldn’t be enough to mention the Incas and Mayas, Simon Bolivar, Che Guevara, Pizarro, Eva Peron and many other valuable persons who changed the history of South America. These brave persons captured my attention and inspired me to travel to this continent.
South America is enriched by various cultures and lives that cannot be read in books, I feel the urge to experience them myself. I imagine that it should be an extraordinary feeling to be on the lands of South America and to breathe the same air as those people and cultures. I feel the same joy about the idea of visiting the Mitad Del Mundo on the axis of equator and to become one being physically on two hemispheres, feeling the mystery of the lost Inca Town at Macchu Picchu, thinking about the 8 million workers that passed away in the mines of Potosi and the way Europe got rich from this, thinking about why Darwin chose for the Galapagos island to write the Origin of Species, witnessing the horizon becoming one with the sky at the Uyuni salt lake, trying to understand why Neil Armstrong chose for this continent to visit right after getting back to earth, to go to the swimming islands on the world’s highest lake Titikaka on local boats, to become wet under the Iguazu and Angel Waterfalls..
These are just a fraction of the journey that I will be making with deep passion in my heart.
The journey
This journey will take 2 years in total and consists of two stages. The first stage is to start the journey at Ecuador and end the journey in Rio de Janeiro at the end of the first year, the second stage starts at Rio de Janeiro and ends at the Dominican Republic.
First part:.
• Ecuador: Capital Quito, Guayanquil, Galapagos islands, the centre of hat production Cuanca, Vilcabamba where the people who live the longest on earth come from, Riobamba where the world’s most active volcano Chimrorazo is located, the city of Tena which is covered by the Amazon forests and the starting point of the Amazon river .
• Peru: Historic nucleus Puno which is a border area with Cusco (the capital of civisation of the Incas). At the same time Puno is the original location of the Kechua locals. Cusco is constructed in the shape of the head of a falcon and the body of a puma. There is the lost city Macchu Picchu. The country’s second biggest city Arequipa, the Nazca desert and finally Lima as the capital of this beautiful country.
• Bolivia: Uyuni, the world’s biggest salt lake Salar de Uyuni, the world’s record high town Potasi, Sucre, the Lapaz Tikikaka lake and the swimming islands on the lakes.
• Chili: The world’s most barren desert Atakama, Antafagasta, Calama and the famous Chuqucamata mine, San Petro de Atakama, the country’s capital Santiago, La Serana on the Pacific coast, The town with the world’s second most crowded (60.000 couples) Penguin colony, the living paradise Pucon, Moreno and Glacier.
• Argentina: Buenos Aires, Gram Choco, Andlar, Santa Crusue, the Patagonya region which is at the South of Chili and Argentina, the world’s southernmost place on earth called Ushuaia, the topmost city of the Fire lands with a population of 65.000 people named Tierra Del Fuego and lastly Iguazu.
• Uruguay (they also call it the Switzerland of Latin America): Del Sacremento and Montevideo
• Brazil: The city of Florianopolis located at the border of South Brazil with Uruguay in the region of Santa Caterina known for its long coastline and a surfing paradise, the river Amazon which is born on the Andes in Peru and after making a journey of 6500 km the river poured out in the Atlantic ocean, The major industry and seaport of the Amazone called Manaus, Sao Luis and the Alacantra island, Brazil’s fifth biggest city called Fortaleza, the historical and pleasant city Olinda which is part of the state Pernambuco and one of UNESCO’s World Culture Heritage, the Sacred Christ statue on the Corcovado hill as one of the seven world wonders, the world’s biggest dam Itaipu, the Copacabana beach and the city famous for its carneval Rio de Janeiro.
• Paraguay: Foz De Iguazu, the capital Asuncion.
Second part:
* Venezuela
* Colombia
* Panama
* Costa Rica
* Nicaragua
* El Salvador
* Guatemala
* Honduras
* Belize
* Mexico
* Jamaica
* Cuba
* Dominican Republic
* Puerto Rico
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