Latin America has always been my dream continent. The mysterious Maya, the amazing statue of Easter Island, the admired revolutionary fighter Che Guevara, always dreaming of returning to the road of Guevara, always hoping to explore the origin of the three major civilizations in America and to have a comparison, to explore the chance and necessity in the history of human civilization, and even more, eager to travel through the mountains and rivers of the seven continents.
In Latin America, the scenery is magnificent:
The towering Andes, beautiful lonely easter island, World Arid Atacama Desert, Caribbean Pearl Cuba;
In Latin America, it is colorful:
The pink salt lake, the blue waterfall, the blue sea, the deep blue Dead Sea, the colorful mountains, the white snowy mountains, and the unparalleled beautiful and lucky double rainbow.
Here, you could pursue the same and difference among the three major Civilizations in the Americas: Maya Civilization, Incan Civilization, and Laztec Civilization. Due to more than 10,000-year-old's evolution in the new continent independent of the old continent, if the new and old continents produced cultural expressions simultaneously, they belonged to the human inevitable culture, e.g., Religion, monarchy, trade, agriculture, military, education, and commercial currency. On the other hand, the difference belonged to the contingency culture, for example, ironware, carriage wheel, livestock, and industry. Furthermore, since Spain destroyed these civilizations, it is possible to study the subsequent Spanish colonial culture and religious conflict evolution.
The portrait sculpture of the mother of the American civilization, Olmec civilization, which is quite distinctive with African feature. Did Americans also come from Africa?
Machu Picchu, the lost city of the Inca Empire
The giant candlestick landmark in Pascale Island, Peru, pointing to the Nazca Line's land, is said to have a history of 2000.
Peruvian Nazca Line. How did the Indians have God's perspective thousands of years ago? Alien?
Chichen Itza Pyramid in Cancun, Mexico, a masterpiece of the postclassical Maya, is mixed with Toltec civilization.
The Mayan Ruins in Palenque, Mexico, a classic work from the Mayan Classic period, unearthed a plate similar to the astronauts, proved that the pyramid was used not only for sacrifices but also for tombs like in Egypt.
Sun and Moon Pyramid in Mexico City, a masterpiece of the Raztec civilization.
A plate with an image of an Astronaut in a rocket unearthed from Palenque.
There is also the Austronesian ethnic group who migrated to the ocean and finally reached Easter Island. It could be seen the evolutionary history combining with New Zealand's Maori culture and comparing with the Philippines, Taiwan, and Fujian cultures.
What moving me even more, is socialist Cuba. What is the current state of the socialism in which Che Guevara, whom I admire, struggled and paid with his life?
For sure, you should visit the former House of Neruda, the first South American Nobel laureate ----- When the gorgeous leaves fell, In the context of life takes visible.
Flora and Fauna in Latin American are also the second to none in the world. There are Lungs of the earth, Amazon, which is larger than Australia; Island with ten-thousand birds covered sky and earth in Pascale; The Caribbean coral, which is the second-largest in the world. Too many to enumerate. Below are some Latin American endemic animals: Capybara, Hoatzin, River Wolf, Amazon Howler Monkey, Amazonian motmot, Morey Crocodile, Flamingo, Whale, Humboldt Little Penguin, and so on.
Tools
Give a man a fish, and you feed him for a day; teach a man to fish, and you feed him for a lifetime. The plan may not be detailed, and the tools may not be easy to use.
1, Key Apps
Accommodation: BOOKING, Airbnb (good for family), Ctrip (good after-sales service), Qunar.com
Travel: Airlines official websites, Ctrip (a little more expansive), ly.com
Food: TripAdvisor (The restaurants with its sign are all good)
Position: Google, Tantu (very easy to use, and places of interest are marked for easy offline navigation)
Weather: Moji
2, specific doc/items
Documents: Yellow book (required for Amazon), notarization of driver's license (required for self-driving), passport copy (convenient to reissue in case of lost the original copy)
Money: USD (10% more tax if visiting Cuba), EU, AUD (seldom used), cash preferred. Credit cards are used less.
mobile (2, just in case one lost or is robbed)
WIFI：mobile package
waist bag: invisible bag in case of robbing
charging tools
Trekking Poles: necessary for climbing.
Medicine: remit motion sickness, remit altitude sickness, release dermatitis
food: It was a pity I didn't take fast noodle this time
shoe cover: in case of raining
Mosquito repellent: used in Amazon and Cuba
Portable toiletries: most hotels do not offer
Guidance book: LP (Lonely Planet)
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