Colonos - Amazonia por la Vida!

Vicente - Still Going Strong

Sun, 28 Sep 2008 01:24:27 +0000

Don Vicente Mamallacta shows that he is still going strong, building a house in the traditional Kichwa manner.

Vicente is in his 80s and lives in a community called Santo Domingo near Archidona in the Napo region of Ecuador and is a very powerful ayahuasca shaman (healer). He can be contacted via his son, Silverio:

Don Vicente Mamallacta 2

Wed, 03 Sep 2008 21:38:07 +0000

Don Vicente Mamallacta introduces himself and speaks about his extraordinary life as a shaman. It is in Kichwa and will hopefully be done with a better camera one day (batteries dead and nno electricity, so it filmed with an Olympus Mju 800 digital still camera) and with subtitles.

Vicente is in his 80s and lives in a community called Santo Domingo near Archidona in the Napo region of Ecuador.

He can be contacted via his son, Silverio: .

See the first part here: http://colonos.blip.tv/file/1229568/

Don Vicente Mamallacta 1

Wed, 03 Sep 2008 20:21:01 +0000

Vicente is in his 80s and lives in a community called Santo Domingo near Archidona in the Napo region of Ecuador. He can be contacted via his son, Silverio:

Nasca-Abancay

Mon, 24 Mar 2008 17:21:23 +0000

Almost in Abancay, this is another simple sequence to give an idea about how the road is.

Coming into Lucanas

Mon, 24 Mar 2008 16:55:43 +0000

Lucanas is on the Nazca-Abancay (a new and now one of the primary routes from Lima to Cusco) road, shortly after the Abra Condorcenca pass (4390m) and after the road forks north to Ayacucho. This is a simply little sequence recorded with a point-and-click digital camera out of the window of a car.

Big Bird Collaboration

Wed, 31 Jan 2007 22:42:22 +0000

On the beach of Colan, near Paita, Piura in Peru. Many big birds diving for food and what might seem to one is a fight over the fishy food, to another could be a collaborative effort to tear in bits and pieces the meat of the poor fish.

"Aya ya ya - Ayahuasca"

Sun, 14 Jan 2007 00:40:11 +0000

A song of praise for Ayahuasca, the mother of all medicinal plants in the Amazonian cosmovision. T'was recorded during an assamblea of yachaks (curanderos, shamans), outside Tena, Napo, Ecuador, on January 13, 2007.

The sound is not very good (recorded with a digital still camera in motion picture mode, then converted to OGG Theora with ffmpeg2theora)

Read more about Ayahuasca in Colonos - Amazonia por la Vida!

Bringing up Bebe

Wed, 03 Jan 2007 02:55:31 +0000

Bebe is not a baby tiger, but a little baby sloth - more about her here:

http://colonos.wordpress.com/2006/12/22/supreme-method-of-being/

Maggots for Dinner?

Wed, 03 Jan 2007 02:34:49 +0000

Chonta Kuros is a delicate dinner item around here, they are maggots that come from within the Chonta palm (also called peach palm, its fruit is yellow, with fibrous pulp, dark brown wood is very hard but elastic).

They are either roasted as they are on open fire (often charcoal in the towns), or rolled in banana leaves and cooked likewise.

Dog Love Fight

Wed, 03 Jan 2007 01:56:56 +0000

Barely a month old they have begun to fight, but can't stand up properly to pee yet, - so they roll in it, and we all roll with it.