When I was at Machu Picchu

Definitively, my favorite travel for holidays was this: the expedition to Machu Picchu of my football team. In this picture we can see to Falconey, Cristian, Luis, Eric and myself, Eduardo.

This photograph shows a team of brave explorers. They said one day “hey man, would you like go to Machu Picchu?” and with only the will of set there, they traveled to Cusco, Perú and Machu Picchu city. We traveled to Perú at last march and we stay there 11 tiring days, making a lot of friends in any place we visit. One of them was “Parsha”, a friendly sushi cook that fed us with delicious typical food from Peru. Further, we met people from every country of South America, specially Argentineans and Chileans like us.

Here we can see the typical postal of this ancient and magnificent city, a really masterpiece of engineering and urbanism. All constructions are a perfect puzzle that accommodate on the old times hundreds of people there, if we think about nobles, aristocrats, soldiers, priests, traders and farmers. An entire metropolis in the middle of “Los Andes”. Now, today, only tourists from whole world walk by his streets.

I think this was my best holidays because I had never been in other country before it, and today I pledge that this don´t be the last one. 

The Memories of my Childhood

In my life there is a place that can bring me back the most of my early and fresh memories. This place is the park set in front of my house, with his high trees and colored games. In there I spent many hours playing with my brother, Cristobal, and my neighbors and friends, each them of which were different ages, but all together could play any game, enjoy every adventure that we did.

When I was 5 years old I got my first bike. This was my favorite gift I had received until then. Out of school, any time I could, I rode my bike across the park and streets behind it. Someday, when I was 8 years old, I wanted to go so far that I could, and then I went until “The Sun highway”, from 20 squares from my house. In those years I thought “wow, I had never been so far from my house alone, seeing the cars under my feet”.

Now, I remember those days charged of fun, defiances and happiness, riding my bike across Santiago.

A COUNTRY I WOULD LIKE TO VISIT

Nikos Kazantzakis, a great greek author, wrote one time ago about Odysseus that he is the immortal representation of a navigator, a man who wants to discover the world and all his marvels. His return to Ithaca was just a pretext, an excuse to travel across the ocean and see the whole earth.

Now, when I read the greatest book of Homero, a literature treasure, my interest can´t be other than go to Greece and swim his sea, reach the shore of Eubea island and see a sunset there.

I think that in Greece there is a lot of things to do. The birthplace of Western culture offer me the history of an old and several country, with his customs and own idiosyncrasy, and a spectacular landscape surrounded by aegean sea, like paradise. In specific, I want to visit the Partenon and Athens city, corinth isthmus and the ruins of Sparta, travel all around I can across Aegean sea and go to Rhodas and other Dodecanese island.

However, I know that now Greece is in times of troubles. I only expect to go there like a tourist and feel Greece’s society in this time with the same respect I have with his history.