Open your ears

I know I was bad lately ... but it's not my fault, I was busy trying to get permission to enter the US again after living there for 4 years. Sounds funny, but believe me ... it's not! (and it's not over yet :-( ).
Anyway, for a change I decided to share with you not just images, but also music from the celebration of the PachaMama (mother earth) that was held in the museum where Maria is working. This is a traditional celebration in the Andes region in which the earth is literally fed by humans (and not vice versa as usual).


But not just food ... since the earth also needs to enjoy, it gets a chance to smoke a bit :-)

and some partying, of course!

Other than feeding the earth, we also made some meditation ... can you find me and Maria in the picture?

But the best part of the ceremony was the music played on traditional Andean instruments:

Some of them look kind of familiar - press here to hear the music

... Some of them not that familiar - click here to hear the music

... And some instruments I haven't seen/heard in my life - click here to hear the music


And before I finish ... just a nice picture:

That's all for now. I guess that the next photos from South America will be posted by Vlad and Alona ... Let's just hope that they'll only take "still" photographs, if you know what I mean.

See you all in October,
Oren