Na poti v Cusco...postaja v Nazci

Zdele bi moral pisati tale tekst iz Cuscota, a so nacrti se rahlo spremenili.

Odlocila sva se, da se na poti proti Cuscu ustaviva se v Nazci zaradi slavnih slikarij na poljih. No, pot je do tja je trajala kar cel dan, saj smo skoraj 3 ure sedeli na avtubusu in cakali da se demonstranti umaknejo s ceste. Mja, no, ko so se umaknili, so na cesti pustili toliko kamenja, da je zgledalo kot da se vozimo po makedamu :)

Te slikarije v Nazci se vidijo samo iz letala (veliko do 270m in se nekatere vidijo baje celo iz vesolja...s teleskopom sevede...hehehe), zato sva se danes sla malo peljat s Perujskimi letali (ki niso ravno poceni). A se je kar izplacalo. Lep dan je bil in super se je videlo. Na koncu nas je pilot se razveselil z nekaj "akrobacijami" v letalu (beri: gor in dol kot bi bli na vlaku smrti...upanje na kak luping je zal splavalo po vodi :S).

Ker nisva dobila vecerne avtobusne karte do Cuscota, sva se odlocila za "skok" na najvecjo pescino na svetu, Cerro Blanca (2070m nad morjem). Bilo je res smesno, ko smo se dogovarjali za ceno, saj je vse skupaj trajalo kake pol ure, da smo se sporazumeli za normalno ceno in smo se dogovorili za casovnice. Vodic je trdil, da rabis 2,5 ure do vrha (za 1700m visinskim metrov), kar se jaz sevede nisem strinjal. No, izkazalo se je, da so nama narobe napisali visino pescine na list papirja (2700m!!). No, sele iz interneta sva ugotovila, da je precej nizja, le dobrih 2000m. Pesek pod noge, v cevlje in se kam drugam dobiva torej jutri zjutraj okoli 5. ure :)

No, lep pesceni pozdrav iz Peruja :)

P.S.: Mojih fotografij zal ni, ker tale predpotopni racunalnik ne premore USB prikljucka. Sicer pa tako in tako se nimam kaksnih hudo dobrih slik, ker se ni bilo res dobrih priloznosti za portrete. To pa je poleg pokrajinske slike tisto, kar si najbolj zelim fotografirat.

Simono berite tukaj!

Lima, Peru

Po 12h in 20 minutah letenja sva iz Madrida srecno pristala na letaliscu v Limi. Nato se je zacelo iskanje taksija. Ker nisva bila uspesna, je Simona "zasarmirala" policaja, ki nama je poiskal taksi, kateri naju je dokaj poceni pripeljal do centra mesta (manj priljubljenega med turisti...do sedaj tukaj nisva videla veliko belcev).
Leteti z Iberijo je super. Stevardese in stevard so bili cudoviti. V repu letala smo nas med zanimivimi debatami "pitali" z vsemi mogocimi dobrotami.
Imela pa sva res hud Jet Lag. Po prihodu v hostel v centru Lime, sva navkljub drugacnemu misljenju spala neverjertnih 10h. Aja, mimogrede, sva 7h za Slovenijo.
Simona obvlada Spansko. Izredno sem presenecen nad njenim znanjem. Zmeni se prakticno vse, kar se je treba, medtem, ko js vecinoma debelo gledam in iz posameznih besed izluscim, kaksni so odgovori. Treba bo se kak dan vec preziveti tu, da mi bo slo bolje.
Lima ni ravno navdusojoce mesto, usrano in skoraj vedno oblacno nebo (ceprav se je danes popoldne precej razjasnilo in celo vidiva sonce...kar menda ni pogosto v tem letnem casu). Podnevi je tukaj okoli 17C, ponoci pa okoli 10C.
Jutri se bova odpeljala proti Cuzcu in nato v smeri potovala v smeri proti Boliviji. Bolivija naju bolj zanima, zato sva se zavestno odlocila, da izpustiva del Peruja, ki velja za najlepsega (hribi okoli mesta Huaraz). To ostane za naslednji obisk juzne Amerike.
Fotografije pridejo pa ob naslenjem stiku z internetom ;)

Ker je v Sloveniji ura ze cez 11 zecer, vam vsem skupaj zazelim buenas noches y dulces sueños!
Opomba: glejte tudi Simonin blog in berite o njenih vtisih o Peruju in potovanju...klikni tukaj

D day has come

Today I am leaving home to visit 2 South America's countries - Peru and Bolivia.
My plane takes off tomorrow at 7.55 from Marco Polo (Venice airport). Because of time zones, I will land at Lima at same day at 22.05, although Lima is more than 12.000km away from here.
After 35 days of backpacking there I must catch plane which will take-off from La Paz on 10th of August. So, I am coming back on 11th of August in the evening.
I will try to publish as much photos as possible here at my blog to show you where I will be traveling and what I will see during the travel.
Have a nice summer and see you in August ;)

Hasta la vista!

IAS 2008 short report

Last Sunday I visited the biggest airshow that has ever happened in Slovenia. My friend Oki Blatnik is a pilot, so he got free tickets but unfortunately we did not have privilege to enter area after safety fance (mainly because my accreditation (as official photographer for www.enpuls.com was canceled).

Anyway, I manage to take some quite nice photos of airplanes in action although my working angle was reduced to just about 30° (I has airplane "exhibition" in front of my standing position), so I often caught parts of other planes (on the ground) on the pictures.
Pilots of acrobatic airplanes have unbelievable skills and they are also very brave to fly few meters above ground with velocity which is often higher than 150 km/h (while performing air stunts!).
If you will have opportunity to see something like that, don't hesitate.
Here are some pictures, I have lots more on stock but no time to get them ready for publish :S

Defence minister of Slovenia

when she saw that I am taking picture of her, she sent this kiss to me ;)

Pilots on solid ground are surrounded with lovely girls :)

angry with myself because I cut her hand :(

Peru and Bolivia

I think I haven't yet published this here at my blog.
From July 7th to August 12th I won't be at home...I am going to Peru and Bolivia to see how people are doing there and to take some pic of people and landscape.
I will be traveling with an expirienced backpacker Simona, she has alrealdy seen lots of places on the Earth.
Fot that occasion I have already bought new, walk around lens (Canon EF-S 17-85 IS 4.5-5.6, circular polarizer and remote switch).
I hope I will be able to make some really great photos like those when I was at North America (USA).
But before leaving, in this minute I am late for friend's weeding where I am official photographer. I guess I will show some weeding pictures here too ;)

This is pic from last weeding where I was official photographer

Rescue mission

Yesterday my niece Loti found 2 little birds (my mum said they were Šmarnica birds) on a ground. They fell from the nest which is above house's entrance door.
Birds were really tiny ones and I guess they were learning how to fly. While I was chasing them to catch them to put them back in the nest they jumped from a "little cliff" and successfully landed :)
My niece was really excited, so I gave her my gloves, so she could hold one of them for a while.
Of course I took some photos of a birds and my niece.
After photosession I climbed ladder and put little birds back in the nest and wished them success at their next flying attempt :D
I hope they won't fall into any cat's claws...

Pariz in Bruselj

Vedno znova mi prihajajo obdobja, ko ne uspem po več mesecev nič napisat na blog... :(

Čas mi kradejo vse mogoče aktivnosti...plezanje, smučanje, demonstriranje, vodništvo, poroke, fotografiranje, tekme in sevede zraven še služba.
A nekaj dni nazaj mi je Simona (folk, berte njen blog, punca ma super smisel za pisanje!!) dala ultimat...no, pravzaprav sem si ga dal kar sam. Rekla je, da je obupala nad mojim blogom (mja, nč čudnega, če sem pa tako neresn!!), a sem ji odvrnil, da imam končno fotografije iz Francije pripravljene za objavo. Ker mi sevede ni verjela, sem se obvezal, da jo peljem na večerjo, če ta vikend ne bo objave. In evo mene, pišem v nedeljo tik pred iztekom roka ;)
Ampak to ne pomeni, da Simone ne želim pelat na večerjo. Simona, kljub temu te vabim na večerjo...ko pridem spet v LJ, grema ;)
Aja, po dveh dneh preganjanja po hribih, se mi ne lubi pisat v angleščini. Če koga to moti, ga pač naj :P
No, v začetku aprila sem bil 4 dni v Franciji in Belgiji. S prijateljico Nino, ki študira Human Rights v Bruslju sva se dobila v Parizu in ga mal prelaufala (spala sva pri "neznanki" iz www.couchsurfing.com z imenom Marianne...žal nimam nobene njene slike). Po tem pa sva se odpavla še v Bruselj, ki pa ni nič posebnega.
Pariz je super mesto, prava metropola, z res lepo arhitekturo in super načinom transporta! Res me je navdušil. Zagotovo se še vrnem.
Ostal mi je še kar precejšen del Louvra za pregledat, Eiflov stolp od zgoraj in zagotovo še kaj.

Ja, prvič sem se zares vozil s podzemno železnico. Navdušenje popolno. Zelo enostaven in izredno hiter način transporta. Logiko podzemne železnice sem osvojil v 10 minutah (vaaa, ka sm js pametn in dojemljiv...hahah). Še nisem potoval enostavneje ;)

No, v Parizu sva z Nino obiskala Notre Dame, Rodinov muzej, Mont Mantre, Louvre, Peruan museum, Eiflov stolp (nisva šla gor) in Art de Triumf ter Elizejske poljane...vmes pa se "kregala" kateri del Slovenije najbolj pravilno govori Slovensko...mja, Nina, moram priznat, da maš kar prav....če boste Gorenjci nekoč vsaj za polovico zmanjšali izpuščanje samoglasnikov, boste kar blizu pravi Slovenščini :D
Aja, vidla sma tudi Bruselj, ki pa ima bistveno manj za pokazat kot pa Pariz. Edino podzemna železnica je novejša (en majčken plus). Bruseljski ponos je "lulajoči" deček ali kakor se je izrazila Nina: "Poscanec" :D. Kip "Poscanca" je velik "neverjetnih" 50cm. Ko sem ga zagledal, sem padel v prikrit krohot in se odpravil dalje. Nisi fotografirat se mi ga ni zdelo smotrno...le nekaj "snapshotov" več bi imel.
Na drugi strani pa moram rečt, da pa je Belgijska čokolada res tako dobra kot se govori ;)
Edina zanimiva stvar v okolici Bruslja je še poleg botaničnega vrta (ki pa ga ponavadi lahko vidiš v vsakem večjem mestu po svetu) Atomium, 102m visoka skulptura, ki predstavlja 9 atomov povezanih v mulekulo. Zanimiva "stavba". Super za slikat.
Na poti domov pa me je čakal še en izziv...čimprej se pripeljati iz Trevisa do doma, saj je naslednji dan treba v službo.
Sevede se Ryainair ni izneveril stari tradiciji in tokrat zamujal kar debelo uro (due to logistical problems). To mi je sevede ravno za toliko prestavilo prihod domov. V Trevisu mi je po asfaltu "zletel" GPS, kar je sevede vodilo do nerganja, sočnih besed in slabe volje...saj je le-ta bil izposojen. Hvala Andreju Lubeju, da ni nič kompliciral za tisto prasko na ohišju! No, po spitem Red Bullu (pijem ga zelo redko) sem prispel domov ob 3eh zjutraj.
Na mojo veliko žalost pa se (tako kot čakanje na letalo) vstajanje za službo ni zavleklo za debelo uro in me je ob 6.30 telofon na "trdo" vrgel iz postle. Ob 7.30 sem že veselo vegetiral v službi (se opravičujem svojemu delodajalcu za verjetno precej neproduktiven delovni dan).
Nina, hvala za super izlet in gostoljublje v Bruslju. Super je blo. To morma še kdaj ponovit!!
No, o lepoti Pariza in nekaterih drugih motivih presodite bralci sami.
Foto robe je ogromno disku, tako da bom v naslednjih dnevih in tednih še kar nekaj objavil. Upam!
Simona, verjetno neb blo slabo, da mi daš spet kak "izziv"...tako kot si mi ga dala za tale prrispevek :)
Za več slik klikni tukaj.

Notre Dame od znotraj

Eiffel

Louvre

Atomium

Center Bruslja...ja, sej vem, da visi, sam se mi je ni dalo popravljat...lenoba an ;)


Eiffel ponoči




detajl v botaničnem vrto...kje so pa rastline?


Graščina v botaničnem vrtu


Atomium spet


Križ v Notre Dame


Hranilec ptic pred Notre Dame


Tti zmešani angleži se hodjo portretirat v Pariz :D


Italjanka hoče fasat pričjo gripo :D


Nina in js pred Mont Mantre

I was flying today! I want more...

Yesterday, my friend Oki invited me to go with him up in the air today...to fly with his father's ultra light plane.
Of course, I couldn't refuse that offer.
In the morning we checked weather conditions (clear, no wind), so we sat in the car and went to the Slovenj Gradec Airport.
First we had to check all vital components of a plane then we embark into the cockpit. Oki performed starting procedures and after warming the engine we were airborn in about 15 seconds.
First we were flying in the direction to my home village to see my house from the air, then we continue to Šoštanj and Velenje, then to see Celje from the air. Afterwards we followed Savinja river upstream to Mozirje, Ljubno...Then we entered in area above Logarska valley. We admired the beauty of our mountains.
We were so enthusiastic that we almost enetered Austrian air space by mistake...in that case we would probably get an escort of an Austrian army fighters.
We flew parallel to Olševa summit (but on Slovenian side) to get to Črna na Koroškem, Žerjav, Mežica and Ravne na Koroškem. Then just over the little hill and we saw Drava river and Dravograd city. From there is just minute or two to Slovenj Gradec and from there it takes few minutes to safe landing at Slovenj Gradec Airport.
As you can see in the title of this post, I enjoyed this flight very much although it was occasionaly quite bumpy due to north-east wind which was blowing at heights (on the south-west faces of the hills air expands and develops lots of turbulences).
Oki, I want some more ;) Hehehe... Thanks for today!!

Ohh, pictures are not very good because I couldn't use my polarizer...the windshield and all other windows on the plane are made from polycarbonate glass and if I tried to take a photo with polarizer on, I got strange and ugly rainbow on the pic.... :(

what a nice little plane ;)


Oki is checking vital parts of a plane


Oki-Maverick before taking off


My home village-my house is fourth one from the bottom at the left part of the picture


Castle of Celje over Savinja river


Mountain Oljka and church on it




Wing of an airplane


Oki is mounting a pole to pull the plane in the hangar