TRIPS TO ECUADOR: LOJA, VILCABAMBA AND THE VALLEY OF THE LONGEVITY
TRIPS TO ECUADOR: LOJA, VILCABAMBA AND THE VALLEY OF THE LONGEVITY
Province with people cheers and musical comedy that conserves its religious traditions around its authentic food and celebrations, like the one of the Virgin of the Swan in its sanctuary and the events of folklore in the community Saraguro, that also emphasizes by its capable crafts in leather, wood, metal, and embroidered textile.
Loja, musical capital of Ecuador, distinguishes by its full colorful places of enchantment that delight to own and foreigners. Between the sites that are acquired reputation inside and abroad it is in the first place VILCABAMBA, that in language quichua, means “Sacred Valley”, is a place of prodigious policromía and beauty, watered by the rivers Chamba and Uchima, the tempered, delicious and cosy climate, with elevations of little height turns that it into an evocative landscape, in a “lost paradise” in mountains.
The majority of the houses is constructed with mud wall, marinades and wood, with inner patios and ample vestibules; her people are calm and amiable, to a large extent dedicated to agriculture where it is not rare to find a old centenary realizing agricultural tasks like any agriculturist of 45 or 50 years. Vilcabamba, that is permanent curiosity of scientists, has received with justice the denominations of: “Island of Immunity for the diseases of the heart”, “the country of old the old women of the world”, “world-wide Center of medical and journalistic curiosity”, “Island of Longevity, where the cardiac ones are able to improve, and where to live more than 100 years is common thing”.
Vilcabamba, the valley of the longevity, with its temper-dry climate environment (19º C.), seems to be the benign place but of country and one of the few places in the world where great part of their inhabitants can live but on 100 years, still working strongly the Earth as any healthy adult, and leaving in mystery its secret us, we will discover that it personally, when visiting someday this valley of health.