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YUNGAY HERMOZURA | Castellano |
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Yungay will remain for many years to come "the town that got wiped away by a landslide." At the time of the earthquake in 1970 a huge piece of ice broke of the top of the Huascaran and caused a massive landslide which killed thousands of people and that completely destroyed the beautiful adobe town Yungay, renowned for it's pretty women (YUNGAY HERMOZURA). The new Yungay which got constructed with international aid at a safer location just further North, has clearly kept contact with it's past. |
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Every Sunday Yungay shows it's colors at it's lively open air market. It is the perfect opportunity for all you, young photographers, to NOT take postcard-perfect pictures of natives in spectacularly colorful local outfit. They will really dislike you if you do. The people love to preserve their culture and the dresses that link them with their partly destroyed past. But they are so attractive to tourists that everybody puts cameras in their faces the whole day. Not very pleasant. Please be discrete. You can see various colorful dresses and hats, each slightly different depending on which pueblo they are from. The hats sometimes contain codes like if some body is single, married or windowed. |
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Hostels in Yungay
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Many people now come to Yungay just to visit the Campo Santo just before the current Yungay if you come from Huaraz. This is the site of the old Yungay which has been left untouched after the disaster and is therefore a huge cemetery. You can see some leftovers of the old church and of the palm trees that used to be on the Plaza de Armas. Roses were planted at the site. You look differently at the massive Huascaran at the back of the site after a survivor tells his personal story about the day. Good idea to take a guide. |
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Restaurant in Yungay Alpamayo |
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Yungay is a very important meeting point for the campesinos that work on the land surrounding Yungay. Here you will hear much more Quechua than in Caraz or Huaraz and the people dress much more traditional. This is the 'pueblo' of the famous Folklor singer Sonia Morales, who grew up in the town of Musho up closer to the Huascaran. Everywhere you can hear her style of music with bass, harp and drums. The 'chocho' beans sold in the market are famous and absolutely delicious. |
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In 1970 when the earthquake disaster in el Callejon de Huaylas took place the cold war was going strong. If you take your time to walk up in some of the streets of Yungay you can imagine yourself in a suburb of Moscow when you pass by the wooden houses made in Russian style. A woman showed us her house made in Cuban style with Cuban money. She was one of the few that made use of the glass veranda in front of the house. A tree protects the hot sun from coming in. |
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You will pass by Yungay if you go from Huaraz to Caraz, the Llanganuco Lakes or for your Santa Cruz trek. It is interesting to take a look around. Yungay appears brand new from the outlook, with an ancient culture superimposed.
(Photos & story by K.K., August 2005)
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