Hello everyone ! I haven’t used Tumblr in a while so I don’t know if any of you is still active but I’m posting this just in case.
I recently started giving language classes online as well as in Santa Cruz, Bolivia. I’m giving French and English lessons and my boyfriend is giving Quechua lessons. We’re just getting started so we don’t have a lot of clients yet.
I created a Facebook page and an Instagram account in order to reach more people. If any of you would like to follow us to help us build an audience this would be awesome ! I will post language tips and vocabulary lists like I used to do on Tumblr a few years ago when I was an active langblr haha
Also if any of you is interested in French, English, Spanish or Quechua lessons online, I will give you a 25% discount if you come from Tumblr. Our prices are already quite low as we live in Bolivia and charge bolivian prices. Please send me a message if you’re interested !
Reblog if your mixed white-Latino and put in the tags what features you got from each side. I’m trying to figure out if there’s any other people with pale skin, grey eyes, but a wide nose and full lips
That green bubbly looking guy is Yareta or Llareta (Azorella compacta) — a flowering plant native to the high altitude regions (10,000’ - 15,000’) of the Andes in Peru, Bolivia, northern Chile, and western Argentina. They often live as long as 3,000 years, making some specimens, among the oldest living organisms on the planet.
Hey Tumblr. I kinda dropped off for a bit. Been traveling a bunch. Japan in November. Denver in December/January. I just returned last night from two weeks in Chile and Bolivia. And now I’m back in Denver for a couple weeks. How are you?
Here’s a photo from a 4-day trek in did in Bolivia last week. Yes, those are flamingos.
Street clashes broke out on Thursday among supporters and opponents of Bolivia’s government armed with slingshots and dynamite as an opposition leader planned a march to pressure President Evo Morales to resign after disputed elections last month.
Luis Fernando Camacho, a civic leader from the eastern city of Santa Cruz who has become an icon of the opposition, appeared at rallies in the city earlier in the day calling for Morales to step down.
He plans to deliver a pre-written resignation letter for the leftist leader to sign, a symbolic move that has sparked an angry response from pro-government supporters and hardened the resolve of a split opposition.
“We will deliver this letter in unity. This letter is not from Santa Cruz; it is from all Bolivia and it will be approved by all Bolivians, because we all want to build a country with democracy and freedom,” Camacho said at a rally. (Reuters)
Reporting by Daniel Ramos; Writing by Adam Jourdan and Cassandra Garrison; Editing by Alistair Bell and Cynthia Osterman
Located near the southern shore of Lake Titicaca in Bolivia, the city of Tiwanaku (also spelled Tiahuanaco) was the capital of a powerful pre-Inca civilization that dominated the Andean region between 500 and 900 AD. The monumental remains of this great culture include several temples, a pyramid, symbolic gates, monoliths and mysterious carvings of alien-like faces. Arriving later, the Incas regarded Tiahuanaco as the site of creation by their god Viracoca, who rose from the depths of Lake Titicaca.
As with many ancient megalithic sites around the world, the builders of Tiwanaku went to great lengths to construct their monumental temples. The basalt and sandstone slabs that lay around the site weigh as much as 25 tons each. And the nearest quarries that could have produced the basalt stones are on the Copacabana peninsula, 40km away. The sandstone blocks came from more than 5km away.
Perhaps the most outstanding structure at Tiwanaku is the Akapana pyramid, built over an existing geological formation. Roughly square in shape, it covers 16 sq m at its base. In the center of the flat summit is a sunken oval area, generally attributed to the digging of early Spanish looters. Some archaeologists believe instead that it was used for water storage. A great deal of the pyramid’s stones were looted for use in local homes and churches, so overall the pyramid is no longer very impressive.
North of the pyramid the Kalasasaya Temple, a ritual platform 130m by 120m in size. The walls are made of huge blocks of red sandstone and andesite. The blocks are precisely fitted to form a platform base 3m high. The massive entrance steps are flanked by two monolithic uprights. The restored portico leads to an interior courtyard and the ruins of priests’ quarters.
Secondary platforms within Kalasasaya contain other monoliths, including El Fraile (the Priest). At the far northwest corner of the temple is the Puerta del Sol (Gateway of the Sun). Constructed of a single block of andesite, it is estimated to weight at least 44 tons. Archaeologists believe it was associated in some way with the sun god, and was perhaps used as a calendar.
The surface is decorated with bas-relief designs and a sculpture of a deity on one side and a row of four deep niches, perhaps to hold offerings, on the other. Near the western end of Kalasasaya is a similar but smaller gateway carved with animal designs, which has been dubbed the Puerta de la Luna (Gateway of the Moon).
East of the main entrance to Kalasasaya is the Templete Semisubterraneo, or the Semi-subterranean Temple. Some think this temple represents the Underworld, while Kalasasaya symbolizes the Earth. Made of red sandstone, the Subterranean Temple measures 26m by 28m in area and includes a rectangular sunken courtyard. Its walls are decorated with 175 intriguing sculptures of human faces. Some of the faces strongly resemble modern depictions of aliens, which naturally has led to some interesting speculations.
West of Kalasasaya Temple is a large rectangular area known asPutuni or Palacio de los Sarcofagos, which is still being excavated. At the eastern end of the site is a heap of rubble known asKantatayita. Archaeologists have not yet been able to piece together what sort of structure was made from the pieces, but they are intriguingly carved with geometrical designs.
Across the railroad tracks south of the main site is the archaeological site of Puma Punku (Gateway of the Puma). This temple complex contains megaliths weighing more than 440 tons.
#Bolivia absolutely blew my mind. I’d heard of the Salt Flats before but couldn’t visualize the rest of the country. The country is so diverse, you’ve got the highest administrative capital city in the world ( #LaPaz), the largest lake in South America (#LakeTiticaca), the world’s most dangerous road (#YungasRoad), the snow capped mountains of Mik’aya, the Amazon rainforest, the largest salt flats in the world (#Uyuni) and so much more!! As an example this is the incredible #ValleDeLasAnimas - The Valley of the Souls. It’s a 30 minute drive from La Paz. Crazy to think something like this is right in the city! After the trip we were so inspired by the destination, and how little we knew of it before going, that we decided to make our first ever Beautiful Destinations Guide.
Spread across a vertical limestone cliff that reaches almost 300 feet (91 meters) into the sky, and one mile (1.6 km) across, Cal Orcko is an important paleontological site located near Sucra, Bolivia that contains the footprints of over 293 known species of dinosaur.
Here’s How A Disgusting Parasitic #WORM Can Actually Help You Get #PREGNANT ———————————- A shocking new study in the journal #Science has found that a disgusting parasitic worm may actually increase fertility in #women.
After studying approximately 986 #Bolivian #women over the course of nine years, researchers discovered that those infected with the ascaris lumbricoides #roundworm gave #birth to about two more #children on average than those who were not.
In fact, the study found that the roundworm actually leads to “earlier first births and shortened inter birth intervals.”
As the #BBC reports, the researchers initially decided to conduct their study in #Bolivia solely because around 70 per cent of the country’s population has a parasitic infection.
While speaking with the BBC, one of the study’s lead researchers, Professor Aaron Blackwell, explained that this specific roundworm infection may work by “altering women’s immune systems, such that they become more or less #friendly towards a #pregnancy.”
Though it sounds pretty gross at first, Blackwell insists that the discovery has the potential to offer a huge positive impact on the way #fertility #drugs are created in the #future.
Because the research is still in its early stages, however, the study’s leaders cannot yet recommend that women actually try to become infected with this parasitic roundworm just to increase fertility.
Even more interesting, the study found that a #hookworm infection actually has the exact opposite effect on a #woman’s fertility of an ascaris lumbricoides roundworm.
Throughout the study, researchers noted that women infected with hookworm had “delayed first pregnancy and extended interbirth intervals,” leading to less #children in general.
[The Creature Codex 2022 World Tour is moving south, to South America. South America has probably been the continent that has gotten the least attention in Pathfinder. Australia is the other contender, but there’s lots of Australian animals statted up, at least, and transported incongruously to the vaguely European Avistan.
We’re starting with one of the many Little People found in the lore of South America’s people. The muki appears throughout the Central Andes, in Ecuador, Bolivia, Colombia and Peru, under different names (I believe the name “muki”, spelled this way, is most common in Bolivia, but Wikipedia might be lying to me again). The muki fits into the wider family of mining faeries, along with such D&D staples as gnomes and kobolds.]
Muki CR 2 CN Fey This little man is the height of a human toddler, but broad shouldered and muscular. He has a long beard, and small horns growing from his head. He carries a lantern in one hand and a pick in the other.
A muki is a mining fey, constantly delving into the earth in search of precious metals. They provide copper, silver, gold and platinum to the fey courts, and guard their treasures jealously. A company of mukis will often mine the same mountain as mortal crews, and they will attempt to distract or misdirect the humanoids in order to keep the best treasures for themselves. Pranks played by the mukis include making strange noises, collapsing empty tunnels, stealing or moving gear, or even knocking out miners with toxic gas and leaving them to be found by their peers.
A muki will occasionally work with humanoids instead of against them, but only if suitably rewarded and only under certain circumstances. Mukis will sacrifice veins of tin and copper if it means keeping the silver and gold to themselves. They appreciate rewards of mortal intoxicants—alcohol and coca are favorites. The surest way to lose a muki’s help is to let others know that a muki is helping you. A muki that learns that its confidence is betrayed will often offer to guide their former friend to a new lode, only to leave them stranded and lost in the dark after hiking through miles of tunnels.
A muki can dig through stone as if it were paper, but their tools leave metals practically untouched—a valuable skill when seeking out ore. Any lamp touched by a muki radiates a light as clear as daylight, but only if the muki so wishes. Some mukis wear traditional robes, others steal mining garments and helmets from mortals and dress up as them, half in honor and half in mockery. They don’t particularly need the helmets—a muki can headbutt its way through a solid stone wall, given enough time. Few mukis are more than two feet tall, but they have brawny bodies. They walk with a waddling gait due to their short legs and wide feet.
Muki CR 2 XP 600 CN Small fey Init+1;Sensesdarkvision 60 ft., low-light vision, Perception +10 Aurabad air (Fort DC 14, 30 ft.) Defense AC14, touch 12, flat-footed 13 (+1 size, +1 Dex, +1 natural, +1 armor) hp16 (3d6+6) Fort+5,Ref+5,Will+6 DR5/cold iron; SR13 Offense Speed20 ft. Meleeheavy pick +5 (1d4+3/x4), slam +0 (1d4+1) or slam +5 (1d4+4) Statistics Str16,Dex13,Con15,Int13,Wis14,Cha12 Base Atk +1;CMB+3;CMD14 FeatsAlertness, Great Fortitude SkillsBluff +7, Climb +9, Knowledge (dungeoneering, engineering) +4, Perception +10, Profession (miner) +5, Sense Motive +4, Stealth +11 LanguagesCommon, Sylvan, Terran SQdigmaster, magic lantern,no breath Ecology Environmentany mountains andunderground Organizationsolitary, crew (2-6) or company (7-12) Treasuredouble standard (Small padded armor, Small heavy pick, hooded lantern, other treasure) Special Abilities Bad Air Aura (Su) As a standard action, a muki can emit toxic fumes in a 30 foot radius. Any creature breathing in the area must succeed a DC 13 Fortitude save or take 1d6 points of nonlethal damage. A creature that fails two saves in a row is staggered from coughing for 1 round. A creature that is unconscious from nonlethal damage begins to take lethal damage. A muki can stop emitting these fumes as a move action. This is a poison effect, and the save DC is Constitution based. Digmaster (Su) A muki ignores the first 8 points of hardness when attacking stone objects or creatures. Magic Lantern (Su) A muki can cause a lamp, lantern, candle or other light source to glow as per a daylightspell. It can activate or deactivate this ability as a swift action.
