{"id":2875,"date":"2012-10-16T07:39:41","date_gmt":"2012-10-16T01:39:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/memmott.us\/blog\/?p=2875"},"modified":"2012-11-18T01:14:40","modified_gmt":"2012-11-17T19:14:40","slug":"sajama-and-the-geysers-sajama-national-park-part-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/memmott.us\/blog\/2012\/10\/16\/sajama-and-the-geysers-sajama-national-park-part-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Sajama and the “Geysers” – Sajama National Park, part 2"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a>Nuestra Se\u00f1ora de la Natividad, in Sajama<\/p>\n

(See Getting to Sajama National Park<\/a>, part 1 of this series, for the route to the park and sites along the way.)<\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a>The Bell Tower of Nuestra Se\u00f1ora de la Natividad, with Tata Sajama in the background<\/p>\n

The sight to see in Sajama town is the chapel.\u00a0 The Chapel of Nuestra Se\u00f1ora de la Natividad, or Our Lady of the Nativity is visible from anywhere in town, though it is actually on the west edge of the metropolis.\u00a0 It\u2019s a beautiful chapel in the style of the Sajama region, with a straw roof, stone construction and a separate bell tower.\u00a0 The straw roof of the chapel had been replaced with industrial tiles, which not only changed the appearance, but were damaging the structure of the building, before the building was repaired, and the straw roof restored, with financing by the U.S. Government in 2010.<\/p>\n

The \u201cGeysers\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n

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A Perpetual Spouter<\/p><\/div>\n

The \u201cGeysers of Sajama\u201d are certainly one of the most beautiful and interesting attractions in Sajama National Park, even if they are not actually \u201cgeysers\u201d at all.\u00a0 In actuality, the \u201cgeysers\u201d are made up of some 120 pools of hot water bubbling up from the<\/p>\n

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A Bubbling Pool<\/p><\/div>\n

magma deep under the earth\u2019s surface.\u00a0 Some of the springs are what are called perpetual spouters, which launch water a few inches in a more or less constant jet (as opposed to true geysers which are periodic in nature).\u00a0 The Aymara names are actually more accurate than the Spanish.\u00a0 Wallaqiyiri and Junt\u2019uma are both names given to the place.\u00a0 \u201cWallaqiyiri\u201d means \u201cmaker of boiling water.\u201d\u00a0 \u201cJunt\u2019uma\u201d means just \u201chot water.\u201d\u00a0 In one pamphlet I saw, they got everything in just in case, calling the place \u201cWallakeris (Geiseres) de Juntuma.\u201d\u00a0 Whatever you call them, they are quite beautiful.<\/p>\n

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Another Cute Perpetual Spouter<\/p><\/div>\n

Unlike in Yellowstone National Park, in the U.S., for example, here you are completely free to walk among the pools of boiling water, sometimes on what looks like it could be a thin crust of earth.\u00a0 It\u2019s fun to have that freedom, but of course, it is also a real risk.\u00a0 Keep your kids under control!<\/p>\n

Tiny Chapel<\/strong><\/p>\n

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Tiny Chapel with “the Payachata Twins” Parinacota and Pomerape, in the Background<\/p><\/div>\n

To get to the Wallaqiyiri, you pass the Sajama Chapel on the right side and just continue out of town toward the west.\u00a0 About two miles out of town, on the right side of the road, you will see a small village with an even tinier chapel.\u00a0 I don\u2019t know the name of the village or chapel, but it is certainly cute.\u00a0 You come to the Wallaqiyiri at about 4.5 miles from town.<\/p>\n

Though you hardly need a map to get to this site, here\u2019s a .gdb file<\/a>\u00a0you can use with your GPS or in Google Earth to get a better idea of the route.<\/p>\n

The next post on the Sajama National Park is\u00a0Termas Manasaya, Sajama pt. 3<\/a>.<\/p>\n

You will find more photos of this area on my photography site<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Nuestra Se\u00f1ora de la Natividad, in Sajama (See Getting to Sajama National Park, part 1 of this series, for the route to the park and sites along the way.) The Bell Tower of Nuestra Se\u00f1ora de la Natividad, with Tata Sajama in the background The sight to see in Sajama town is the chapel.\u00a0 The […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[101,92,58,57,103,59],"tags":[187,168,55,48,170],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/memmott.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2875"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/memmott.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/memmott.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/memmott.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/memmott.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2875"}],"version-history":[{"count":27,"href":"http:\/\/memmott.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2875\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3099,"href":"http:\/\/memmott.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2875\/revisions\/3099"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/memmott.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2875"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/memmott.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2875"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/memmott.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2875"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}