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A Cundinamarca Tour: Hints for making your first tour in Colombia memorable.

Here there is no mention of the paragliding available in the area, nor of horseback riding, nor of the best places to dance. There are hints about making your visit to Colombia one of your better doings.

            Here are some hints for sparking interesting tour ideas. You may also find suggests for helping you to smooth your adventures. Remember that Colombians speak Spanish. You can find opportunities to test the quality of your Castellano. Your tour could turn out to me a number of smaller tours. I might be a good move to make some of them guided. A knowledgeable guide is a valuable asset. She could either make or break much of  the pleasure of the excursion. There are many tours and guides available in Bogota and some elsewhere. Enjoy some planning and enjoy your exploration a lot.

            Cundinamarca is the "departamento" (state) of Colombia in which the Colombian capital city of Bogota is located. It has been said that the name Cundinamarca comes from Chibcha word "kutur marga," which means "nest of the condor." Chibcha is the language of the Muisca, a principle pre-columbian people of what is now the Republic of Colombia.

            Cundinamarca has a great deal of interesting cultural attractions to offer beyond its marvelous landscape and natural attractions. Cultural attractions include, food, architecture, music, and dance available to you. As your Spanish grows much more culture is available.To begin with, just the geographical attractions could become near overwhelming. Still you may find it easy to forget that you are exploring a bit of the Andes, the longest range of mountains with many of the worlds highests peaks. 

            You might choose to begin getting acquainted with Cundinamarca by joining a tour group or two at least one an overnighter.Then again you might find and interesting guide in Bogota and by surprise him by saying you would like to get to know the towns of Fomeque, Guasca (Guasca may be the name of a bearlike animal. You could ask someone who knows more Chibcha than I do), Junin, Gacheta, Gama, Gachala, Uhala, and Medina. Most of these town names are hispanizations of Muisca names. Your guide may carry some Muisca DNA. He may be able to speak more English than Chibcha and his language will be Colombian Spanish. 

            Colombia is rich in water resources and Cundinamarca is certainly one of the richest states in that resource. Colombians have begun to develop and protect this resource, But you may come to feel that beauty of the streams, rivers, is the greater richness. On the Cundinamarca rout of my example this beauty abounds. Much of it comes from the sky in the form of rain, but you may find the water at hot water spas were the water comes from the earth has a great beauty of its own. I have heard that 1/4 of the hydroelectric energy of the country is produced in this department.    

            A major attraction in the area for some is a nature park called the Natural Chingaza. The origin of the name is a mystery to me. Speaking of mystery, This 150,000 acre park with peaks of over 10,000 feet above sea level is likely to hold secretes that only perhaps a few Muisca and Guayupes know of. Several of the towns I have mentioned here are within this park. There are pure water streams and lakes in the area. With legs better than mine there are many natural beauties to be seen within short walking distance of a good road. There is a great deal of beautiful and dramatic scenery to be seen without leaving the car.

            One might easily spend a month exploring the area. Do try to give yourself a week or ten days to enjoy a real chance to take in the curiosities, beauties, and more of the people, places, and doings in what may be called the heart of Colombia. You may delight in treks or hikes, but you do not have to.Very much can be enjoyed frequent road-side stops. Great hours or days can be enjoyed bathing at hot water and checking out the interesting eating opportunities. There is a taste treat or two you may never find elsewhere. To get up your appetite some good bird watching is often available. Perhaps available right from your hotel, cabin, chalet, or hostile. A guide may  help you to find lodging very well suited to you.

            Or you may be one to check out some of the local alcoholic beverages unknown to you. But you could enjoy the comfort of class of a beverage you know well. You may find simple breathing here a great joy. It is possible to discover some of the purest air you have ever experienced. You may find it best not to run as much as you are accustomed to. A these altitudes the air is often very pure, but may feel somewhat thin to a newcomer. 

            There are quick an easy ways to change altitudes. A trip doward can quickly get you into warmer more abundant air. You can easily change altitudes to find a warmer climate or air more congenial to you. When you feel a bit too warm, you can easily go up again to the refreshing cool air there.

            In much of this area the land does seem more vertical than horizontal. But than again one can feel that one is in some beautiful lowland with lovely green meadows marvelous groves of trees. The fact is that the very lowest spot you may visit will be about 3000 feet above sea level. You may also find that the top of the little hill near you has an altitude of over 9000 feet. You could get up a good bit higher if you wish. Not good running country for a low-lander. Not at first.

            No need to tell anyone, but you may find yourself close to El Dorado, he Gilded One, or at least to the lake where he was washed of the gold dust covering his body. Remember that at a good hostel there may be some one ready to relate very interesting and useful information. This may be so even if there are youth their to exuberant for your taste and you do not intend to stay you may still find people there persons there pleased to give you very good valuable information with a smile. Before I forget, don't you forget to bring a light jacket and sweater or the like. Even though you are not so very far from the equator, the nights are chilly and some days can be pretty cool. There is some good shopping in Bogota and the prices makes it tempting. You could buy a sweater or jacket there.

            You can vis the area we have been considering from a variety of directions. This is best done one at a time. Many have found that a good start may be don from Bogota to the cement town of La Calera. Calera has many restaurants, and a few are quite good and probably much cheaper than the ones you may have eaten in the Capital. Still for one new to the country it may be best to drink bottled water or a gin fizz and stick to cooked food. You might have to leave some of your first beautiful salads.

            If you find that you have time to spend in La Calera and feel like decent walk, you find it easy and worthwhile to visit La Pena Tunjuaque while you are here. Take your time and take it easy, You may begin to feel like your are getting up close and personal with the country in a comfy way. If not it is a nice walk and could lead to a good night's sleep.

            Thank you for reading.

            Enjoy! 

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                It is a Roman Catholic pilgrimage site at a place of "miraculous" happenings of the 1500s. construction at the site continued to 1954. It is an amazing construction at a dramatic site.

                                                                                rcs

A Lovely Great Hunk of Very Early History Related to Ireland

What is this figure from Irish Mythology doing in the Greek sources?                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                         

The figure written of  is Fenius and/or Phineus, a person active in our world shortly after The Flood. I had come to believe that who may have rightly called Greek had come to Ireland at least twice in very early times. One of these early Greek comers I felt fairly comfortable with, the others I had read only rumors of. They were the Milesians who were the most recent of the comers just before more firmly historic times. The Milesians were Greek. They had developed a well developed trading empire on island just of  what seems to have been the Anatolian coast. During some uncomfortable times on Milesian the made a couple of visits in fairly quick successions to Ireland of which they had some knowledge. On their second coming many  of them came to stay. To the people who were already there, their language was Greek. So Greeks knew Ireland as late as early historic times. So Greeks knew Ireland and Irish knew Greek from not so very long after The Flood, until very close to modern times. 

It may have been these Greeks who stirred the Irish to a desire for a written language. They may have heard of the Phoenicians from them. Well this video my stir you to learn more of the earliest history of our world and Ireland prove a somewhat surprising place to make an excellent starting point. It could you to Iberia, Thrace, Scythia, Anatolia, Greece, Phoenicia, and on to deeper understandings.

                                                                                                            Richard S.

 

 Ancient Munster: Where Cork City and County are now.

            Cork was once part of the Kingdom of Deas Mumhan, which has been called South Munster, and has been called Desmond by the English. It has been ruled by the MacCarthy Mor dynasty. Who can tell us about the Mum people.

            It seems fair to call the coming of the Normans an invasion. They certainly caused changes in Munster which were not pleasant to everyone. The MacCarthy clan and much culture were pushed westward into what is West Cork and County Kerry. The clan became centered on Dunloug Castle near Mizen Head. Some have said that their castle there dates to 1207 AD. There is more to be said about tht site and the O'Mahony. We may get to them later. For us right now the coming of the Normans is a fairly recent happening.

            But we can move on to even more recent times for another paragraph. The Hiberno-Norman family became the earls of Desmond, which sounds very English. Cork, city was given an English Royal charter in 1318 and became an outpost of England. But even a diminished Irish culture is still catchy and resistant. By about 1583 the city and the county was a mess. We might say destroyed and devastated Some said that they had been resettled by some of the worst England had to offer. But even many of their offspring became a useful part of a new Ireland.

            Ireland has suffered plenty of troubles. The troubles of Normans and English entering the land I think began in about 900 AD when defending against the  viking raids from the north so weakened the land that Norman and English saw it as a tasty morsel to be taken. The viking norsemen had taken most of the gold and the more transportable, but what Norman and English saw was the rich green land itself.

            I was wanting to get into truly ancient times, but getting through the early troubles is proving difficult. Desmond was Deas Mumhan, but we now continue to speak of English influence. So, a historic kingdom in south western Ireland has been called Desmond. It was founded in 1188 by Tadhg MacCarthaigh. He became king of Munster. That Desmond included all of what is now County Cork and most of Kerry. The division of Kerry from Cork took place with the Treaty of Glanmire when the land was divided between Desmond and Thomond. The sullivan and Donovan were important there, but that is another story,`

            I have been trying to get too much early Irish history into to few paragraphs and now I am moving into some prehistory of the island.

            Earlier there were the Earinn who held al of Munster, the better half of all of Eri. I am thinking that the Iverni of that fertile land were Earinn. Many of Munster once thought of themselves as people of the deer. who drank deer milk before the coming of cows. They were probably a people called Earinn or Eirenn or the like.

            I think the MacCarthy called themselves people of the deer, but the MacCarthy may have come with the cows.

            Well, there seems to be much more Irish prehistory than I can handle in one essay. For now I'll just leave you with some bits and piece of that history and hope it gives you a taste for more. More than one sort of Greek knew Mizen Head and so did a Phoenician or two. The Fomorians knew it and probably Balor and Lugh did too.

        There were deer in the south of Ireland over 30,000 years ago. There was plenty of time for people to learn to eat them with time left over to learn to milk them.

            Early Irish were also boatmen who navigated the sea. The were probably fishers of the sea, but I have seen no evidence of that.

            Munster had an increasing population by 8,000 BC. By 5,000 BC Aegean cow milk was probably replacing deer milk. Anyway some kind of cow milk was available on the island by then.

            The copper of Old Munster was supporting the making of bronze by 2,000 BC.

            Correct my errors and help with this work. I have heard that there are those who believe that I know so much about this far south of Ireland that I must have lived there from before 20,000 years ago to about 4,000 BC. Its not true and I could really use your help to find out more about Irish prehistory.

            Thank you for reading.

                                                                                            R. C. Sheehan

Co. Kerry: First Words About What Became County Kerry

The focus here is mostly on the Dingle Peninsula of Kerry 

            Focus may be too strong a word, but I will stick with it. Not so very long ago I walked down that peninsula on a warmish winter day and back up the peninsula in the same day, so it was pretty long ago. It rained a bit, on and of, but I dried as I walked. The sun kept coming out and tried to stay for a while the air was clear and bright and often and had a lovely feel to it. I walked along the main road but there was little traffic. The idea here is that I have experienced the land a bit. So I got rained on some walking the length of the peninsula and was dry again before I got to the tip. I believe that it was an early December, it was a fine day often with a great sort of light, rare and lovely.

            The Peninsula rightly has some famous history and as I learned later rightly has some fame for its rainfall. For me it ought to be famous for the light of its air.

            By the look of things, people of Kerry liked to participate in the happenings of Ireland. By the 1920s Kerry men were being shot by Black and Tans. A crying shame. But then again they got in some proud licks. I recent centuries the Irish have been know to have been troubled more than than average. But then again they seem to have been troubled less than average for most of the time from the Mesolithic to through the Bronze Age. Things were a bit iffy during the Iron Age, but by the end of that age they were more Irish than ever. And now it is said, with some breath holding, they are doing pretty good, some would say darn good.

              About the time I walked the Peninsula people in the south were doing well, but there was still a pretty brisk business in short lengths of metal pipe. When would that have been?               

             Kerry, somehow managed to a part in much Irish rebellion. Ross Castle, near, Killarney, held long. I don't remember the story. When would that have been? I have a lot to learn and these days I seem to be forgetting more than I am learning.

              Kerry got hit hard by the Irish Famine  of 1845 to 49. Irish like many great people, got everywhere. Seems like I have heard someone say "From Killarney to Kansas." The Irish part of my family was already settled in American heartland by this time, but not in Kansas. There was another nasty famine in Ireland not very long before this one, but not so well remembered. What famine is well. All English are not always sweethearts.

                By say about 1610, most of Kerry nobility had lost their land to the English. By 1776 a great percent of the nobility had left the Island, I believe.

They were bettering the race in other lands. Good for the Irish. And no matter, they plenty of the good and better blood in the Island still alive. 

                By 1588 ships of the Spanish Armada were wrecked on islands near the tip of the Dingle Peninsula. I have heard it said that the Black Irish came to Ireland that way. I say that they may have arrived closer to 1588 BC than to 1588 

AD. Still I admit that I tend to exaggerate at times to help another to get the point. I even say that they from father off than Spain.

                I had meant to say earlier that the Hiberno-Norman Kerry Fitzgerald dynasty were called Geraldines. I meant to tell mi sister, Geraldine, that, but lost my chance.

            Stone oratories in in the county seem to date back to 500 AD. I guess that by then Ireland was Christian enough to send missionaries to England, France, and Rome by then. I saw the oritorise in photos in a book rather than on my walk. I remember that I wondered about the quality of their acoustics.

                I am not sure why, but I would like to learn more of a people called Ciar. They lived on the Peninsula and elsewhere in Kerry. I suspect that they were there when Bronze was popular. I do not remember where I got the information, but it seemed certain that they were a pre-Celtic people. They were "Black Irish." They were around long enough to have had two Irish apostoles among them. I had the fantasy that they had been around long enough to know Sheehan when we had another name or names.

            I also read somewhere that a son of Fergus mac Roich was a Ciar. I would like to find out if Fergus himself was a Ciar. Maybe tomorrow I'll check to see could have anything about that.

                Well, Ireland, Kerry, Munster and all are doing pretty well this days and these days it is not easy for everyone to do well.

                I am pleased to have anyone correct my errors, pass on more info, ask a question, or anything that won't hurt my feelings much. 

                Thank you for reading.

                                                                        Richard Carroll Sheehan

                                                                        One would never know that I am Polish, German, Prussian, Norwegian, and who knows what.

            This was to have been a draft, but I better start posting while I am able.