Madidi National Park

Explore Madidi National Park

The Madidi National Park characterized by its exceptional wealth of biological riches and variety of ecosystems being home to over 4.739 species of plants, 1.370 species of vertebrates and 867 tropical birds and endemic plants, is considered the most biologically rich protected area on earth and a priority for conservation. Last 2005 after a one-of-a-kind international auction for the right to name an entire new species of monkey, the brown-and-orange titi monkey was officially named Callicebus aureipalatii, latinized name of Golden Palace by an internet casino. This titi monkey was discovered by the the Bronx Zoo-based Wildlife Conservation Society (WCS) Conservationist Dr. Robert Wallace in the jungles of Madidi National Park. Besides the new monkey, inside its border live healthy populations of jaguars, giant river otters, over 1,000 bird species (representing a whopping 11% of the world’s 9,000 bird species) and many varieties of rare orchids and other unique plants. Madidi Park is considered the most biologically rich protected area on earth and a priority for conservation. The Madidi National Park is composed of snow-capped mountains, glaciers, high Andean lagoons, deep valleys and canyons, cliffs, torrid rivers and waterfalls – all in an area about the size of New Jersey, all adding up to make up some of the most stunning scenery you will ever see. Inside of Madidi National Park, the beautiful indigenous community-owned Chalalan ecolodge is located. The Chalalan Ecolodge stands in the Tuichi valley on the shore of the magnificent Chalalán Lagoon in the middle of pristine forest. The lodge combines elegance and comfort in an ecological way by using local materials with respect for the natural surroundings, using forest materials, solar energy, and intensive protection of the lake and maintaining the traditional building styles of a local community, San José de Uchupiamonas.

It’s bird population represents 11% of the world’s 9,000 bird species. This protected area has the highest number of bird species in the world and it is thought that more studies will register over 1,100 species.

The Nazca Lines

An Unbelievable Wonder

The Nazca Lines are located on the south of the city of Ica, the Pan Americana highway cuts through the desert of sand dunes to km 422, before of Nazca city. There are lines were made by removing the iron oxide coated pebbles which cover the surface of the Nazca desert. When the gravel is removed, they contrast with the light-colored earth underneath. There are several hundred simple lines and geometric patterns on the Nazca plateau, as well as over seventy curvilinear animal, insect, and human figures. The area encompassing the lines is nearly 200 square miles, and the largest figures can be nearly 900 feet long. The lines persist due to the extremely dry, windless, and constant climate of the Nazca region: the Nazca desert is one of the driest on Earth and maintains a temperature around 25ºC (77°F) year round, and the lack of wind has helped keep the lines uncovered to the present day.
The Nazca Lines are gigantic geoglyphs located between Palpa and Nazca desert, there were created by the Nazca culture between 200 BC and 600 AD. There are hundreds of individual figures, ranging in complexity from simple lines to stylized hummingbirds, spiders, monkeys, and lizards. The Nazca lines cannot be recognized as coherent figures except from the air.
Since their discovery, various theories have been proposed regarding the methods and motivations behind the lines’ construction.

OVERFLIGHT NASCA LINES ITINERARY

At 7am transfer to the aerodrome Maria Reiche. Am. Informative video about the Nasca civilization = 45 min.
Fly over the Nasca lines by light Cessna plane (35min): The Nasca lines are located in the desert, a high arid plateau that stretches between Nasca and Palpa on the pampa (a large flat area of southern Peru). The Nasca lines are geoglyphs and geometric line clearings in the Peruvian desert.
The Nasca lines are an enigma. Since their discovery, the Nasca lines have inspired fantastic explanations from ancient gods, a landing strip for returning aliens, a celestial calendar created by the ancient civilization, used for rituals probably related to astronomy, or clans who made up the population and to determine through ritual their economic functions held up by reciprocity and redistribution, or a map of underground water supplies. Flying over the area you can marvel looking at the perfect shape of Animal’s, flowers, plants, objects, and anthropomorphic figures of colossal proportions made with well-defined lines.
After flight transfer to the hotel or to the bus station and end service.

OVERFLIGHT NASCA LINES TOUR INCLUDES

1. Welcoming reception at the bus station and transfer to the hotel or our local office (we need the name, from where and arrival time of your bus). If you don’t want spend a night in Nasca we have place to storage your luggage
2. English-speaking tour guide in the aircraft (Private VIP Service only)
3. Transfer from Hotel/Airport/Hotel
4. Airport tax
5. Entrance to the Nasca Lines – New regulations (INC)
6. Light plane (Cessna 172 – 182 – 206)
7. 35min of fly over Nasca lines
8. Tour price includes government sales tax (19% as known IGV)

Visit Lima City

Lima City Tour

The best excursion to get to know Lima. 

This excursion provides a perfect combination (pre-Hispanic era, colonial period and Modern Lima), that enables the visitor to get acquainted with Lima’s complete history.

ITINERARY

We will pick you from your hotel to start the most complete City tour. We will start with a panoramic view from the Huaca Pucllana, a magnificent ceremonial and administrative center of Lima Culture, built in the 4th century AD, and considered by the Incas as ñaupallaqta, a “sacred village”. 

Then, we will show you the Historical Center. During this tour you will visit many points of interest such as the Main Square (Plaza Mayor) founded in 1535 by Francisco Pizarro, conqueror of Peru, the Government Palace, the City Hall, the Cathedral and the House of El Oidor. You will see other colonial architectural jewels, such as Torre Tagle Palace, a beautiful mansion dating back to the 18th century. We continue the tour with a visit to San Francisco Convent and its catacombs. The construction of San Francisco church was consecrated in 1673. It has stood up to numerous earthquakes, and has a majestic stone facade and an interior with admirably carved choir seats in Nicaraguan cedar, vaults and columns decorated with plastered Moorish style reliefs. The arcades in the convent’s cloister (16th century) are decorated with Seville tiles. In the beautiful chapter house there is a collection of paintings of the apostles. The underground galleries and catacombs were discovered in 1951 and are gloomy and impressive, containing the bones and skulls of some 70,000 people buried there when it was the town cemetery during the time of the Viceroys.

The tour continues through the more traditional Residential Areas: El Olivar in San Isidro, with olive trees brought from Spain in the 17th century; Miraflores’ Central Park, and Larco Mar, a spot of international thematic attractions which offers a spectacular panoramic view of the Pacific Ocean – Larco Mar has become a distinctive symbol of modern Lima.

ANIMALS?????????????????

10 pts for best answer. best animal you can think of. can be weird/cool/random/whatever. GO!

Best answer to ANIMALS?????????????????:

Answer by ladystang
appaloosa
snow leopard

Answer by ♥Betta Splendens♥
I like coatimundis.

http://www.pet-spot.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2009/07/coatimundi.jpg

Pangolins remind me of pinecones.

http://www.arkive.org/media/6C/6C0FA420-38E0-4A66-9806-9D89699BA1E0/Presentation.Medium/Ground-pangolin-walking.jpg

Long-earred Jerboas!
http://img219.imageshack.us/i/strangerodent1cg3.jpg/

Answer by Anna
Skink LOLOLOL

Answer by CF_
a horse I use to own many years ago.. then found again...

http://therealowner.com/pet-stories/finding-an-old-horse/

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What kind of architecture did the Incas use to build religious fixtures and buildings?

Are there any good sites out there that would tell me about architecture of the Incas - for religious fixtures and buildings specifically. Does anyone know?

Best answer to What kind of architecture did the Incas use to build religious fixtures and buildings?:

Answer by horomnizon
These sites look pretty good:

http://www.rutahsa.com/incaarch.html

http://incas.homestead.com/inca_architecture.html

http://incas.mrdonn.org/architecture.html

http://www.tripatlas.com/Incan%20architecture

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amazon?????

if you order anything from amazon do you have to use a creit card or can you just pay with money were if not were are some sites that do...??

Best answer to amazon?????:

Answer by Kobe > MJ
credit card

Answer by john b
Credit Card only.

Answer by I Missed a Good Buy
don't think u can

Answer by nathantheguitarist
credit card, or you might be able to mail in a money order/check on certain things.

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Santa Cruz?

Are the shops, restaurants, and activities open year round on the Santa Cruz boardwalk? And also what is the coldest temperature Santa Cruz gets (during the day)?
I am talking about santa cruz, CALIFORNIA (if you didnt already get that)! thank youuuu

Best answer to Santa Cruz?:

Answer by seetheglobey
They are open year round. The weather is quite pleasant all year (generally) and visitors and locals come to the pier all the time .. We had breakfast at Gilda's which is a sort of staple on the pier ...

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How many years after the Jurassic dinosaur Stegosaurus was officially extinct, did the Cretaceous dinosaur Tyr?

How many years after the Jurassic dinosaur Stegosaurus was officially extinct, did the Cretaceous dinosaur Tyrannosaurus make its first appearance on the planet?

Best answer to How many years after the Jurassic dinosaur Stegosaurus was officially extinct, did the Cretaceous dinosaur Tyr?:

Answer by Joyce B
http://www.referencecenter.com/ref/reference/Stegosau/Stegosaurus?invocationType=ar1clk&flv=1

http://www.referencecenter.com/ref/reference/Tyrannos/Tyrannosaurus?invocationType=ar1clk&flv=1

These should give you the range of years.

Answer by Tim D
Lol, this is not an easy question to answer. It just got much harder, since the stratigraphic/temporal range of Stegosaurus was recently extended from the Jurassic to the early Cretaceous. This happened because the Chinese stegosaur Wuerhosaurus was "sunk" into Stegosaurus, on the basis of similarities. Unfortunately, there is anything but a clear idea as to when Stegosaurus became "officially" extinct, lol. (We didn't even have a clear idea in the past because there is no fossilferous strata conformably overlying the Morrison to tell us if Stegosaurus really died out at the end of Morrison or latest Jurassic time.) To make matters worse, the exact age of the Lianmuqin formation, which yielded Wuerhosaurus/Stegosaurus, is not known with any degree of precision. At present one can only guess when Stegosaurus died out--although I assume this occurred at roughly the midpoint of early Cretaceous time c 135-125 Ma. Now as for when Tyrannosaurus appeared, that's a little easier to figure out. The closely related Tarbosaurus lived c 70 million years ago at the start of Maastrichtian or latest Cretaceous time. The Javelina formation, which yielded a tyrannosaur specimen considered quite close to T. rex, has been dated at about 69 Ma. So I'd assume Tyrannosaurus rex had probably evolved by c 68 Ma. The fact that it appears to be present in Alamosaurus bearing units considered slightly older than the Lance/Hell Creek, apparently bears out origination c 68 Ma. So how much time elapsed between the demise of the plated one and the rise of the tyrant king? Roughly 60 million years. Very roughly, I'm afraid....

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Where can I go diving in Lake Titicaca?

Hi, I am planning to travel to Peru and I was wondering if it is possible to dive in Lake Titicaca

Best answer to Where can I go diving in Lake Titicaca?:

Answer by Love thy neighbour
Actually there is an island inside the Titicaca lake called Taquile where you can do some diving but you need to be a certified diver and do it with the local people who run the expeditions there. I've heard that the fish you see there are simply spectacular.

Dont know what kind of publicity are these questions, both "Nina" and "George" and "Stefan" are the same person. Those 3 addresses opened the same day, and they are just making publicity for this company.

Answer by Nina
The above answer is not correct - there is no diving base on Taquile island. But here is a great video from you tube on diving in Lake Titicaca: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C8CbKcAUM8k

Answer by Globetrotter
Yes it is possible to dive in Lake Titicaca but you should ask for informations at tour agencies with tours leaving for Macchu Picchu.

http://www.yukiba.com/745-machu-picchu-peru-south-america-trip.html

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What is the best way to travel from Albuquerque, New Mexico to La Paz, Mexico?

At first I wanted to drive down to San Diego and then down the Baja peninsula to La Paz. Then, a friend of mine mentioned that a better and shorter way is to drive to Mazatlan and then to take a ferryboat across to La Paz. In checking out the Atlas I can see that Mazatlan is quite a bit south of La Paz and that the ferry boat would be backtracking. Do you have some other suggestions for best routes from Albuquerque to La Paz?

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Answer by sparks_mex
Yes .... the ferry to take leaves from Topolombanpo near Los Mochis and only takes about 9 hours. The ferry from Mazatlan takes 18 hours.

The problem with taking the ferry is you need to register your car for mainland Mexico (money, time and paperwork) and the ferry costs about dollarsignr 100us for car plus a passenger fare of about dollarsignr 60

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