Mexican camels

It boils under our sun noon without understanding the overwhelming North American euphoria to board cruise ships and snoop around Alaska, I’ve always been curious to hint at something cooler but more intriguing.

It was like this while hanging out with my childhood friend Jaime Ventura, a happy architect from the Isthmus, who recounted his quixotic southern tip of the continent, breaking the hippocampus of my brain, stimulating desire, curiosity, the desire to discover the passage of Magellan, your penguins sea ​​lions and playful seals, recreating the swaying of its waves in a ship considerably larger than the Nao Victoria that carried the explorer and his lieutenant Elcano back to Spain on September 6, 1522, just over 500 years ago, after the first global voyage around the world.

Neither short nor lazy We are setting sail on a Norwegian Star cruise on a 14-day pilgrimage starting in the port San Cristóbal serves the Chilean capital Santiago en route to Buenos Aires on February 15, 2020, one of the last cruise ships to sail global waters before being shut down due to the scourge of COVID-19.

Tourism is the recreation of the mind during adventures that take us to beautiful places outside, far from the well-known alleys, raspados, ceviche and Azuerense carnival. Travel gives us the opportunity to appreciate human ingenuity in the presentation of the work of his work, such as the installation of a gigantic dinosaur in the municipality of Trelew in the Argentine province of Chubut, 40 meters long, weighing 70 tons, which we admire during our stop in Puerto Madrynon the way to the penguin colony the largest in the world in Punta Tombo, because Argentinians like to leave their visitors speechless by showing them huge things beyond the magnificence of their pampos, their tango, mate, honest wines and excellent football. It is such experiences that February 26, 2020 leave far behind the aroma of the leather of a new car or the purchase of cool things and clothes to be fashionable in our struggle through life.

As we appreciate it, we repeat our pilgrimage to this beautiful planet every year, especially now that it is a reality climate changesapparently in our extended Isthmus summer of 2023, ignoring the uncertain future that awaits our grandchildren.

We’re moving to Seattle on Friday, to the extreme North Pacific United States set sail on Sunday on the Norwegian Encore cruise ship with 4,004 passengers, 2,043 cabins and 1,735 crew on a 21-day odyssey disembarking in after crossing Miami through the new locks of the Panama Canal.

We planned all this more than a year ago, just like we usually do with all our getaways, because a trip is not just a transfer, but an in-depth study of the destination in order to get the most out of it, to use the experience, instead of clumsily rambling on buses tourism full of obese gringos.

It will be the same on our scale Cabo San Lucas, in the state Mexican from Baja California Sur, next November 4, we will discover a great excursion in that desert Aztec landscape, a walk along the beach on the back of a camel. Before the transfer, the organizers will dress us as Bedouins, wearing tunics known as thawbs and on our heads, keffieh, their traditional caps. Apart from the fact that the trip is very expensive, mobile phones are prohibited because they will take pictures of us, which we will surely all buy, for who knows how many hundreds of Mexican pesos. This is an example Aztec genius, whose Ministry of Tourism For years, he has been ahead of our Tourist Board in encouraging his chimney-free industry.

So, travel is thought provoking. When will a local entrepreneur think of getting a few camels to copy the company Cabo San Lucas and earn a comfortable living instead of gossiping the usual tropical moan?

Having it all hurts that we don’t make the most of our beautiful surroundings.