Municipalidad de Arequipa distingue a los mejores operadores de turismo de aventura 2013

El Salón de la Fama de los Deportes Extremos AQP 2013

Municipalidad Provincial de Arequipa distingue a los mejores del turismo de aventura

Por The Colca Specialist

El dia 22 de Noviembre se llevó a cabo en el Salón Consistorial del Palacio Municipal el evento más importante en lo que a turismo de aventura se refiere: El Salón de la Fama de los Deportes Extremos AQP 2013, evento en el que el Alcalde de la Municipalidad de Arequipa Dr Alfredo Zegarra Tejada distinguió a la créme de la créme del turismo de aventura de Arequipa: operadores de turismo de aventura, promotores, eventos deportivos,  centros educativos, e instituciones y municipalidades que trabajan en pro del desarrollo del turismo de aventura y el ecoturismo en Arequipa. Además se hicieron entrega de distinciones especiales a la Unidad de Salvamento y Rescate de Alta Montaña USAM, unidad de la Policia Nacional del Perú que viene realizando una labor importante en Arequipa asi como al guía de montaña Sr Eloy Cacya Cárdenas quien fuera nominado como “GUIA DE MONTAÑA DEL 2013” en mérito al rescate del estudiante capitalino Ciro Castillo Rojo desaparecido en el Bomboya y al rescate del estudiante Oliver Toledo desaparecido durante una peregrinación al Santuario de Chapi.

Por último se presentó a los promotores y deportistas más destacados de la Región Arequipa los cuales fueron inducidos al Salón de la Fama de los Deportes Extremos AQP 2013 por la Municipalidad Provincial de Arequipa. Esta es la primera vez que se hace un evento de esta talla a nivel regional y porque no decirlo nacional en el cual estuvieron presentes sólo los mejores y nos llamó la atención que no pasaran el proceso de selección los “promotores pepes” como James Posso  entre otros promotores turísticos de dudosa reputación.

Asimismo los galardonados felicitaron a la Municipalidad de Arequipa por la realización de dicha actividad cuyo noble y único objetivo era la de reconocer los méritos de los participantes asi como dar a conocer al mundo entero a LOS VERDADEROS OPERADORES DE TURISMO DE AVENTURA y no a los intermediarios comisionistas.

El Glamour y la Belleza estuvieron presentes en el evento y la nota la pusieron las bellas anfitrionas de Deporte Extremo e Inka Expeditions siendo estos últimos autores de una presentación “Etiqueta Negra” característico de los eventos del denominado “Clan Mandini” cuya frase es AL FONDO HAY SITIO. Mejor dicho en el AVIT hay sitio.Los galardonados fueron los sgtes:

1.-Categoria Operadores Turísticos:

-Agencia de Viajes y Turismo Zarate Aventuras. (Andinismo)                                                                  Gerente General  Sr.Carlos Zárate.

-Agencia de Viajes y Turismo Colca Trek. (Trekking)                                                                        Gerente General  Mg. Vlado Soto.

-Agencia de Viajes y Turismo Naturaleza Activa .(Ciclismo de Montaña)                                   

 Gerente General Sr. Eduardo Sánchez Bendezú.

-Agencia de Viajes y Turismo Expediciones y Aventuras

(Canotaje) Gerente General  Sr Gustavo Rondón Alvarez.
-Agencia de Viajes y Turismo Colca Horse El Herraje (Cabalgatas y Turismo Ecuestre)             

Gerente General Srta Sofía Solange Málaga Cáceres.

-Agencia de Viajes y Turismo Inka Expeditions (Ecoturismo Escolar)                                             

Gerente General Sr Gonzalo Ruy  Zevallos Portilla.

-Agencia de Viajes y Turismo La Casa de Mauro. (Canotaje)                                                           Gerente General Sr Maurilio Amilcar Zuñiga Medina.

2.-Categoria Promotores de Ecoturismo y Turismo de Aventura:

-Lic. Humberto Huamaní Luque.

-Ing. Mauricio de Romaña Bustamante.

-Antrop. Pablo Masias Nuñez del Prado.

-Sr. Guillermo Carlos Rendón Cuadros.

-Sr. Maurilio Amilcar Zuñiga Medina.

-Sr. Miguel Angel Fernandez Cayetano

-Sr. Walter Valderrama.

-Sr- Gonzalo Ruy Zevallos Portilla.

-Sr. Manuel Vera Mamani.

-Sra Sofia Chislla Callo.

3.-Categoria Distinciones Especiales:

-Eloy Cacya Cárdenas nominado como “GUIA DE MONTAÑA DEL AÑO 2013”.

-Unidad de Salvamento y Rescate de Alta Montaña USAM.

 4.-Categoria Eventos de Turismo de Aventura más importantes :

-Primera Expedición Peruano-Europea de Canotaje de Altura DISCOVERY (Colca Rafting)          

-Carrera de Ciclismo más alta del Mundo INKABIKE 2003 (Dircetur).

-Carrera de Ciclismo Sobredosis de Adrenalina 2004 (Dircetur).

-Raid de Campeones Mallku Jaqe 2005 (Dircetur).

-Raid de Ciclismo Uniendo las Maravillas del Mundo Colca-Cotahuasi (Municipalidad Provincial de Caylloma-Autocolca).

5.-Centros Educativos distinguidos por difundir el ecoturismo a nivel escolar:

-CEP Santa Ursula.

-CEP Colegio Peruano Británico Internacional.

6.-Categoría Medios de Comunicación:

-Programa de TV El Caminante.

-Programa de TV Pureq Runa.

-TV UNSA.

7.-Promotores y Deportistas inducidos al Salón de la Fama de los Deportes Extremos AQP 2013

-Maurilio Amilcar Zuñiga Medina.(canotaje)

-Gustavo Rondón Alvarez.(canotaje)

-Guillermo Carlos Rendón Cuadros.(ciclismo)

8.-Categoria municipalidades distritales ,provinciales e instituciones:

-Municipalidad distrital de Cayma

-Municipalidad distrital de Yanahuara

-Municipalidad distrital de Selva Alegre

-Municipalidad distrital de Mollebaya

-Municipalidad distrital de Quequeña

-Municipalidad distrital de Yarabamba

-Municipalidad Provincial de Islay

-Municipalidad distrital de Huanca

-Municipalidad distrital de Lluta

-Municipalidad distrital de Yura

-Municipalidad distrital de Sibayo

-Municipalidad Provincial de Cotahuasi –La Unión

-Municipalidad provincial de Castilla

-Autocolca.

 The Colca Specialist.

Trekking training guide for the Inca Trails

by the Colca Specialist

Although walking is something most people do every day, we strongly urge you to train for your trek. You should start training several months before the event and this Trek Training Guide for Inka Trails will help you to do this.
It is designed for a person of 'average' fitness. Even if you walk regularly and have a good level of fitness, you will still need to train for this type of long-distance walking, though you may find that it will not take you as long to reach the stages outlined below. If you do not walk often and have only a basic level of fitness you should allow more than the 16 weeks outlined.

Why Walk?

• It strengthens your heart, reducing the risk of heart attack and stroke.
• It improves circulation, breathing and endocrine functions.
• It tones muscles and strengthens bones, reducing the risk of osteoporosis.
• It reduces blood fat and cholesterol.
• It burns calories and helps you manage your weight.
• It boosts mental performance and improves psychological well-being.
• It enables you to solve problems, manage stress and reduce anxiety.

Walking Techniques - ways to avoid injury and discomfort

• Touch the ground heel first, roll forward through the arch, over the ball of your foot to your toes, which push off to start another step. This reduces the risk of shin splints and tendon pulls.
• Walk with your head up and eyes focused ahead.
• Keep your shoulders level, pulled back and down, lift your chest.
• Contract your abdominal muscles, pressing them towards your spine.
• Carry your arms at 90° angles and pump them forward and back, rather than side to side. The faster you move, the better your cardiovascular workout. But try to keep an even stride and maintain a steady pace. To walk faster....
• Accelerate your arm movements.
• Take smaller, quicker steps.
• To prevent lower back pain avoid leaning forward and arching your back.

Shoes

Choose a comfortable pair of walking shoes designed for the specific activity of walking. It should have a reasonably high ankle and a stiff heel counter to give lateral support. The midsole should be firm yet comfortable. It is worth investing in a good pair of trekking or hiking boots, and appropriate socks. New boots must be worn in. Wear them around the house, on the way to work, etc, and then on longer trips. Once they have conformed to the shape of your feet there is less likelihood of getting blisters.

Feet first!

There are some common foot problems which are very easy to treat and avoid:
• To avoid blisters keep your feet dry and wear socks made with fibres which draw moisture away from your skin - steer clear of pure cotton. Don’t lace your shoes too tightly or too loosely. The irritation from the pinching and rubbing may cause blisters.
• Aching arches are usually caused by pounding when you walk. Make sure you touch the ground with your heel first and pushing off with your toe. Arch supports may help.
• Blackened toenails are caused by the big toe hitting the front of your shoe. Keep your toenails neatly trimmed. Make sure that if one of your feet is slightly larger than the other, as most are, that your boots fit the larger one.

Long-distance Walking: 16-week Training Programme

Week 1 - 6:
2 x 30mins walks. 1 x 2 hour walk. Full stretch after each walk.
Week 7 & 8:
Sat or Sun: 4 hour walk and stretch
Mon: Rest Day
Tues: 1 hour walk, stretch, exercise circuit x 3, stretch.
Weds: Rest Day
Thurs: 1 hour walk, stretch, exercise circuit x 3, stretch.
Fri: Rest Day
Week 9:
Sat AND Sun: 4 hour walk and stretch. (Walk both days if possible).
Mon: Rest Day
Tues: 1 hour walk, stretch, exercise circuit x 3, stretch.
Weds: Rest Day
Thurs: 1 hour walk, stretch, exercise circuit x 3, stretch.
Fri: Rest Day
Week 10 & 11:
Sat or Sun: 6 hour walk and stretch
Mon: Rest Day
Tues: 1 hour walk, stretch, exercise circuit x 4, stretch.
Weds: Rest Day
Thurs: 1 hour walk, stretch, exercise circuit x 4, stretch.
Fri: Rest Day
Week 12:
Sat AND Sun: 6 hour walk and stretch. (Walk both days if possible).
Mon: Rest Day
Tues: 1 hour walk, stretch, exercise circuit x 4, stretch.
Weds: Rest Day
Thurs: 1 hour walk, stretch, exercise circuit x 4, stretch.
Fri: Rest Day
Week 13 & 14:
Sat or Sun: 8 hour walk and stretch
Mon: Rest Day
Tues: 1 hour walk, stretch, exercise circuit x 5, stretch.
Weds: Rest Day
Thurs: 1 hour walk, stretch, exercise circuit x 5, stretch.
Fri: Rest Day
Week 15:
Sat AND Sun: 8 hour walk and stretch. (Walk both days if possible).
Mon: Rest Day
Tues: 1 hour walk, stretch, exercise circuit x 5, stretch.
Weds: Rest Day
Thurs: 1 hour walk, stretch, exercise circuit x 5, stretch.
Fri: Rest Day
Week 16:
Sat or Sun: 4 hour walk and stretch
Mon: Rest Day
Tues: 1 hour walk, stretch, exercise circuit x 3, stretch
Weds: Rest Day
Thurs: 1 hour walk, stretch, exercise circuit x 3, stretch
Fri: Rest Day

Programme Notes

The 16 week programme is a rough training guide. Obviously with work, family and fundraising commitments you may not always be able to achieve what we have set out for you. However in order to get close to achieving the training it is very important to organise your time properly. There are plenty of ways to ensure that you maximise your training, even if you feel you have no time outside work.
• You must organise your week to make time to get out to do some training.
• Get up an hour earlier and go out for a quick walk with some stretching in the morning before work while it is still light.
• If you can walk to work, do so. If you get to work by public transport, get off a stop or two earlier than usual, so that you walk some distance each day. If you drive, park further away than usual, or walk a longer route to work.
• Use your lunchtimes to take regular brisk walks around your work area, not just a stroll around the shops.
• Find a steep set of stairs i.e. five floors of a department store/office block and climb them five times, at least three times per week.
• Swimming, squash, badminton, cycling and any other sport will also help get you prepared.
• Joining a leisure centre is a good idea as the local fitness instructors may well be able to design a programme specifically for you. Most good gyms have a walking machine, or even better a stair climber, where you can clock up mileage more safely and comfortably, but do try to walk as much as possible in ‘real’ conditions and wearing your rucksack and boots.
• It is important at weekends to get into some hilly areas to experience walking on different surfaces, get used to the hills and of course the weather. You should wear the boots and rucksack you will take on the trek.
• You should make the time to walk some consecutive long days: an isolated Sunday walk does not have the same effect as two consecutive days. Nothing will prepare you for the trek better than actually walking. Even if you’re only doing an hour around the park or streets put your rucksack and boots on, you may look silly but it’s worth it.
You may not stick to the training guide exactly but you need to keep it in mind and to do regular exercise every week according to the guide. You will enjoy this challenge far more if you are physically fit.

Training Tips

After the first six weeks you need to gain endurance by walking long slow distances. Pick one day per week as your long walk to gain endurance. Choose two evenings or mornings as your shorter walks with the Circuit Exercises to help build specific muscles groups. Remember to stretch after ever walk, it is also essential to stretch after about ten minutes of walking once you’ve warmed up a bit. Make sure you plan adequate rest/recovery days as part of the training.
Of course nothing is better than walking. However if you play squash, tennis, badminton or go to the gym, cycle or swim for an hour or two, then this will also help with your general fitness. Adding this to your programme instead of one of the short days or on one of the rest days would be fine. Make sure you stretch properly after each session.

Coporaque: place where the corn is given

by the Colca Specialist

Its name comes from two different quechua words: QHOTO that means a pile of corn,and RAKE that means to give,to distribute.

So Coporaque means: Place where the corn is given.

In Colca Valley and in Colca canyon there were many Qollqas or places for storage where our ancestors kept grains among other products in order to provide food to the people in the crisis periods.

Coporaque was the capital of the Inka empire during 20 years aproximatedly so that’s why there were many Qollqas in Coporaque area.

People of Coporaque are called CHATA QEROS or tied qeros.

Qeros are containers made of wood to drink chicha and with pass of the time the qeros get broken so in order to solve the problem the locals get a cord and they tied it up to avoid the chicha to come out of the container.

This is the church of Coporaque which is one of the oldest in Colca Valley.This one is dedicated to Santiago apostle which was one of the most important religious icons in the catholic religion.

This monument represents Inca Mayta Qapaq the inca conqueror that according to the tradition came here to Colca Valley and Colca Canyon to conquer these lands for the inca empire. They came to declare war but the people were friendly and besides they were farmers not warriors like the inca so the inca established an alliance through marriage.
The inca Mayta Qapaq married the Kollawa princess Mama Tanqaray Yacchi and the royal couple lived in Coporaque area.So Coporaque became the capital of the inca empire for aproximatedly 20 years until the death of the ruler.

Here in this picture we can see San Antonio de Chicjra which is an archeological complex located on the top of the hill.An extensive analysis was done and many burials were found around the house.Because of the burials this place was a "Huaca" "sacred place" in the past.In the case of this shrine it is oriented towards the sun rise whose totem was the andean condor which was associated to the sun god.The one that took the souls of the death to heaven.

Pictures of the snow maiden Juanita

A wonderful view of Sabancaya volcanoe which was active.The ashes covered a wide area in the surroundings including Ampato volcanoe where Juanita the snow maiden was found.The increase of temperature and the fall of ashes provoked the melting of part of the glaciers and Juanita´s ice cover dissapear and the snow maiden ended exposed to the view of its discoverers.

A beautiful view of Ampato volcanoe in the afternoon.The original name is "Hampatu" in quechua language which is a name that describes a specific type of frog.Frogs are associated to rituals of fertility and they were considered as the favorite creatures of Pachamama (The Mother Earth).

Here we have another view of Sabancaya volcanoe and as you can appreciate here we see that part of the glacier is melt because of the effect of the volcanic ashes fall.

This is a complete picture of the snow maiden called Juanita.

From the top of Ampato volcanoe we can see the other peaks and mountains of the area.

On the top of Ampato volcanoe.

On the way to Ampato volcano.This picture was taken from Patapampa area.

A picture of the snow maiden Juanita in the museum in Arequipa.

A picture and a diagram of the burial of Juanita.

A lateral picture of Juanita the snow maiden.

Juanita is one of the most important archeological findings in Peru because thanks to the research done by the specialists of human genoma program whose headquarters are located in John Hopkins hospital in United States we have a better comprehension about the origin of the peruvian people.