 | 2000miles, 54hp, 14000ft, Alpaca, Andes, and Guinea Pigs Doug and Sara drive through Peru's highlands and desert on a 2000mile road trip in a Suzuki Alto. |
 | Along the Andes: Part 10 (The Atacama) Part 10 of 16 in the "Busco Gusto: Along the Andes" series (www.stinkyfeetproject.org). Presenting the Atacama Desert, the driest place on Earth. Filmed January 30, 2006. Edited October 30, 2006. |
 | CycleTherapyRiders - Caracoles-Cordilheira dos Andes Clip003 That is our third videoclip created during our trip to Patagonia and Atacama Desert on march 2008 . " Crossing over the Andes by the famous CARACOLES - "StarWay To Heaven" from Led Zeppelin is surely the best soundtrack for this ride ! We hope you enjoy it ! Follow our trips on cycletherapyriders.com ...Este é o terceiro videoclip criado durante nossa viagem à Patagonia e Deserto Atacama em março de 2008 . "Cruzando os Andes pela Famosa CARACOLES". "StarWay To Heaven" do Led Zeppelin é certamente a melhor trilha sonora para esta pilotagem. E acompanhem nossas viagens em cycletherapyriders.com |
 | Andes Bicycle Expedition Trailer Trailer for our (Yannick Daoudi & Kathleen Mullin 's) documentary on a crossing of the bolivian altiplano by bicycle. http://www.y2ktravels.com/documentary |
 | Concerns About Global Warming concerns about the environment. If anyone is interested in talking about their concerns and about how to make Earth a greener and less polluted planet, post a video response with your thoughts. According to UN report, the world will be a much hotter place by 2100. This will be the impact: 2.4 degrees: Coral reefs almost extinct In North America, a new dust-bowl brings deserts to life in the high plains states, centered on Nebraska, but also wipes out agriculture and cattle ranching as sand dunes appear across five US states, from Texas in the south to Montana in the north. Rising sea levels accelerate as the Greenland ice sheet tips into irreversible melt, submerging atoll nations and low-lying deltas. In Peru, disappearing Andean glaciers mean 10 million people face water shortages. Warming seas wipe out the Great Barrier Reef and make coral reefs virtually extinct throughout the tropics. Worldwide, a third of all species on the planet face extinction 3.4 degrees: Rain forest turns to desert The Amazon rain forest burns in a firestorm of catastrophic ferocity, covering South America with ash and smoke. Once the smoke clears, the interior of Brazil has become desert, and huge amounts of extra carbon have entered the atmosphere, further boosting global warming. The entire Arctic ice-cap disappears in the summer months, leaving the North Pole ice-free for the first time in 3 million years. Polar bears, walruses and ringed seals all go extinct. Water supplies run short in California as the Sierra Nevada snow pack melts away. Tens of millions are displaced as the Kalahari desert expands across southern Africa 4.4 degrees: Melting ice caps displace millions Rapidly-rising temperatures in the Arctic put Siberian permafrost in the melt zone, releasing vast quantities of methane and CO2. Global temperatures keep on rising rapidly in consequence. Melting ice-caps and sea level rises displace more than 100 million people, particularly in Bangladesh, the Nile Delta and Shanghai. Heat waves and drought make much of the sub-tropics uninhabitable: large-scale migration even takes place within Europe, where deserts are growing in southern Spain, Italy and Greece. More than half of wild species are wiped out, in the worst mass extinction since the end of the dinosaurs. Agriculture collapses in Australia 5.4 degrees: Sea levels rise by five meters The West Antarctic ice sheet breaks up, eventually adding another five meters to global sea levels. If these temperatures are sustained, the entire planet will become ice-free, and sea levels will be 70 meters higher than today. South Asian society collapses due to the disappearance of glaciers in the Himalayas, drying up the Indus river, while in east India and Bangladesh, monsoon floods threaten millions. Super-El Ninos spark global weather chaos. Most of humanity begins to seek refuge away from higher temperatures closer to the poles. Tens of millions of refugees force their way into Scandinavia and the British Isles. World food supplies run out 6.4 degrees: Most of life is exterminated Warming seas lead to the possible release of methane hydrates trapped in sub-oceanic sediments: methane fireballs tear across the sky, causing further warming. The oceans lose their oxygen and turn stagnant, releasing poisonous hydrogen sulphide gas and destroying the ozone layer. Deserts extend almost to the Arctic. "Hyper canes" (hurricanes of unimaginable ferocity) circumnavigate the globe, causing flash floods which strip the land of soil. Humanity reduced to a few survivors eking out a living in polar refuges. Most of life on Earth has been snuffed out, as temperatures rise higher than for hundreds of millions of years. Carbon Dioxide Rate is at Highest Level for 650,000 Years and UN Report http://www.commondreams.org/headlines07/0203-03.htm Scientists: Humans 'very likely' cause global warming http://edition.cnn.com/2007/TECH/science/02/02/climate.change.report/index.html Study links carbon dioxide emissions to increased deaths http://news-service.stanford.edu/news/2008/january9/co-010908.html Arctic Warming Faster Above Ground Level http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2008/01/080102-arctic-warming.html Third World bears brunt of global warming impacts http://www.news.wisc.edu/11878 Warming to Cause Catastrophic Rise in Sea Level http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2004/04/0420_040420_earthday.html The climate is crashing, and global warming is to blame, No Polar Ice By 2060 http://www.cnn.com/2006/US/03/26/coverstory/index.html Hydrogen Vehicle http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hydrogen_vehicle Global Warming, Earth Absorbs More Energy From The Sun Than It Is Able To Reflect To Space At Night http://bioresonant.com/news.htm How Global Warming Can Chill the Planet http://www.livescience.com/environment/041217_sealevel_rise.html Carbon tax http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carbon_tax |
 | CARAL - Oldest city in the Americas (2 of 2) *English* Archaeologists discovered Caral in 1905, but it received little attention until recently because they appeared to lack many typical artifacts that were sought at sites (National Geographic News, 26 April 2001, accessed 25 July 2001). Archaeologist Ruth Shady further explored the 5,000 year-old city of pyramids in the Peruvian desert, with its elaborate complex of temples, an amphitheatre and ordinary houses. The urban complex is spread out over 150 acres (607,000 m²) and contains plazas and residential buildings. Caral was a thriving metropolis at the same time that Egypt's great pyramids were being built. Pirámide Mayor covers an area nearly the size of four football fields and is 60 feet (18 m) tall. Caral is the largest recorded site in the Andean region with dates older than 2000 BCE and appears to be the model for the urban design adopted by Andean civilizations that rose and fell over the span of four millennia. Since the site is a thousand years older than the earliest civilization in the Americas, it is believed that Caral may answer questions about the origins of the Inca and the development of the first cities. Among the artifacts found in Caral was a quipu, the oldest yet found. The discovery showed that the quipu writing system, a method involving knots tied in rope, was older than any archaeologist had previously guessed. Unlike most cities, no trace of warfare at Caral has been found; no battlements, no weapons, no mutilated bodies. Shady's findings suggest it was a gentle society, built on commerce and pleasure. In one of the pyramids they uncovered 32 flutes made of pelican and condor bones and 37 cornets of deer and llama bones. They also found evidence of drug use and possibly aphrodisiacs. One find revealed the remains of a baby, wrapped and buried with a necklace made of stone beads. Caral spawns 17 other pyramid complexes scattered across the 35 square mile (90 km²) area of the Supe Valley. The find of the quipu indicates that the later Inca civilization preserved some cultural continuity from the Caral civilization. |
 | Mendoza, Argentina and Chile Mendoza, Santiago, San Pedro de Atatcama, Arica. The Atacama Desert is the driest desert in the world!! :) |
 | CARAL - La Civilizacion mas Antigua de America (Parte 2) Archaeologists discovered Caral in 1905, but it received little attention until recently because they appeared to lack many typical artifacts that were sought at sites (National Geographic News, 26 April 2001, accessed 25 July 2001). Archaeologist Ruth Shady further explored the 5,000 year-old city of pyramids in the Peruvian desert, with its elaborate complex of temples, an amphitheatre and ordinary houses. The urban complex is spread out over 150 acres (607,000 m²) and contains plazas and residential buildings. Caral was a thriving metropolis at the same time that Egypt's great pyramids were being built. Pirámide Mayor covers an area nearly the size of four football fields and is 60 feet (18 m) tall. Caral is the largest recorded site in the Andean region with dates older than 2000 BCE and appears to be the model for the urban design adopted by Andean civilizations that rose and fell over the span of four millennia. Since the site is a thousand years older than the earliest civilization in the Americas, it is believed that Caral may answer questions about the origins of the Inca and the development of the first cities. Among the artifacts found in Caral was a quipu, the oldest yet found. The discovery showed that the quipu writing system, a method involving knots tied in rope, was older than any archaeologist had previously guessed. Unlike most cities, no trace of warfare at Caral has been found; no battlements, no weapons, no mutilated bodies. Shady's findings suggest it was a gentle society, built on commerce and pleasure. In one of the pyramids they uncovered 32 flutes made of pelican and condor bones and 37 cornets of deer and llama bones. They also found evidence of drug use and possibly aphrodisiacs. One find revealed the remains of a baby, wrapped and buried with a necklace made of stone beads. Caral spawns 17 other pyramid complexes scattered across the 35 square mile (90 km²) area of the Supe Valley. The find of the quipu indicates that the later Inca civilization preserved some cultural continuity from the Caral civilization. Descubrimiento arqueológico El primero que llamó la atención sobre Caral fue el estadounidense Paul Kosok, quien visitó el lugar junto con el arqueólogo estadounidense Richard Schaedel en 1949. En su informe, publicado en el libro Life, Land and Water in Ancient Peru, en 1965, mencionó que Chupacigarro (como se le conocía a Caral entonces) debía ser muy antiguo, pero no pudo mostrar cuánto. En 1975 el arquitecto peruano Carlos Williams hizo un registro de la mayoría de los sitios arqueológicos en el valle de Supe, entre los cuales registró a Chupacigarro, a partir del cual hizo algunas observaciones sobre el desarrollo de la arquitectura en los Andes, que presentó primero en el artículo Arquitectura y Urbanismo en el Antiguo Perú, publicado en 1983 en el tomo VIII de la serie Historia del Perú de la editorial Juan Mejía Baca, y después en el artículo A Scheme for the Early Monumental Architecture of the Central Coast of Peru, publicado en 1985 en el libro Early Ceremonial Architecture in the Andes. El arqueólogo francés Frederic Engel visitó el lugar en 1979, levantando un plano y excavando en el mismo. En su libro De las Begonias al Maíz, publicado en 1987, Engel afirmó que Chupacigarro (como aún se conocía a Caral) pudo haber sido construido antes de la aparición de la cerámica en los Andes (1800 aC), pero sus afirmaciones no fueron aceptadas por los arqueólogos andinos. En 1994 Ruth Shady recorrió nuevamente el valle de Supe e identificó 18 sitios con las mismas características arquitectónicas, entre los cuales se encontraban los 4 conocidos como Chupacigarro Grande, Chupacigarro Centro, Chupacigarro Oeste y Chupacigarro. Para diferenciarlos Shady los denominó, Caral, Chupacigarro, Miraya y Lurihuasi. Caral, Miraya y Lurihuasi son los nombres quechua de los poblados más cercanos a los sitios. Chupacigarro es el nombre español de un ave del lugar. Shady excavó en Caral a partir de 1996 y presentó sus datos por primera vez en 1997, en el libro La Ciudad Sagrada de Caral-Supe en los albores de la civilización en el Perú. En ese libro sustentó abiertamente la antigüedad precerámica de Caral, afirmación que consolidó de manera irrefutable en los años siguientes, a través de excavaciones intensivas en el lugar. El Proyecto Especial Arqueológico Caral-Supe está a cargo de los trabajos in situ. La arqueóloga Ruth Shady, viaja a esta ciudad en forma permanente para continuar el trabajo de las excavaciones y descubrimientos en esta parte de un país arqueológicamente rico y de diversas culturas milenarias. |
 | Voyage for the pampas Argentina and the Chilean Desert Crossing the Mountain chain of the Andes, an angel flies without knowing hisher destination, looks at the desert infinite and falls down produced before his your beauty |
 | Travel to Peru with www.cat-travel.com Peru is mystical. It is a land resplendent with an intense natural beauty and a profoundly evocative history. Perhaps the world's most dreamt of holiday destination; Peru is home to the awe-inspiring ruins of Machu Picchu, the Inca capital Cusco, and has a past that spans back over the last 10 thousand years. From austere desert landscapes, to the alluring Andean mountain range, to the lushly abundant Amazon rainforest, Peru is a county overflowing with ecological wonder |
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