Una VIDA DURA pero FELIZ así vive una FAMILIA en un inhóspito rincón de los ANDES PERUANOS

In the highest mountains of Peru, lives a beautiful family dedicating themselves to agriculture and to the artisanal raising of truchas. Look at the size of the trucha that our friend Alejandro is raising. Inside his house, in an immense nature, full of peace and tranquility. Today we will know what life is like at more than 3,500 meters above sea level. Facing all adversities and a day-to-day struggle. These potatoes tell us that they are quite useful for sowing. And look, here in front of this lagoon, there is a beautiful house. And the houses here are made of stone. Friend Wilmer, what a beautiful house. Friends, do you know where we are today? At the heights of the department of Huanco. There is the lagoon of Intiposo. Here there are truchas, friends. Only here we see two families that live next to this beautiful lagoon. There are truchas. If we had brought a hook, we would have caught fish. And they tell us that if we can catch only one trucha. And look here, in front of this lagoon, there is a beautiful house. And around here we have another beautiful house. And the houses here are made of stone. All the houses are made of stone. And the roof is made of icho. But there are some houses that have already been calaminated. And here the vast majority are dedicated to agriculture and livestock. They are basic sustenance. Over there in front we see that chakra. And that is the way the Andean potato is grown here. They take advantage of those small plots, small land. And there it is sown. At this altitude it gives delicious potatoes. Look, here are the little pigs. Here is where the pig mother is. And there are their little pigs. Look how cute. Here they have three little pigs. Life in the field. It is very beautiful. While it is surrounded by beautiful landscapes. It is very beautiful. And this is what I want to teach you a little more. Friend Alejandro. You were telling us that you take advantage of the water that abounds here. And based on what you are taking advantage of the water. You are raising ... I am raising my little pigs. I am raising them. Now I am going to take them out of the river. Just a hose. In the summer. Just like that. So the little pig does not die. It is calm. And naturally, by chance, I give it food. Sometimes I forget to give it food. But it is very fat and grows fast. Because here it is pure land inside. It looks like rotten grass in there. Land. It is eating worms that are entering. It is eating, but it is very fat. It wants to grow. From the river? From the river, no, from the farm. Here it grows fast. And it is fat. It is not like its food in the farm. It is fatter. Look how interesting. Now we are going to see, friends. Because it is something that catches our attention. Father, where are we right now? What place? Many people would like to know. This is the town called Linda Linda. Which belongs to the district of Molinos. Pachitea province. This is in the department of Huanca. From here, a little further down, it already begins to the jungle. But here, these plants that we are seeing all around. They are plants from the wet area. This does not grow more in height. This only grows especially in certain places. And these plants are from the wet areas. There are a lot of moss. A lot of interesting things, let's see. And what has surprised us. We did not know that this house. It is like a forest. Interesting thing. Now let's see, look. Its own farm. Inside his house. Look. Look at the size of the trucha. It's big. This is what you grow here inside your house. The color of the trucha is different. This is the male. Look at the size of the trucha that our friend Alejandro is raising. Inside his house. That is the size of the trucha. A trucha of approximately one kilo. And these are the two small ponds. Where he himself raises. We reached the Metras lagoon. All this place is a beautiful landscape. From here to 30 minutes and 40 minutes walking. We are going to get to that part. Below those mountains. People live there. Who are dedicated to agriculture and livestock. This is a paradise. There is a small detail that I want to tell you. To get to that place. We are going to walk. There are only slopes. There are no roads to enter with mobility. All these plants that we are seeing. They are plants of humid areas. From here the jungle begins. We see there in front how the trees and the bushes. All this is for humid areas. What happens? Here in winter seasons. Between the months of October to April. All this place is filled with fog. Nothing is visualized. Here there is a lot of moss. Humid areas. Now that we are in the summer season. The place looks very beautiful. Friends, this is the Metras lagoon. It is very deep. It is a black color. We are going to walk. We are going to go around that part. On the side of the lagoon we are going to go. We are going to get to where the yellow part is. We are going to have to get there. There we are going to find people. Who are very dedicated to field work. These are ancestral roads. It shows by how stony it is. There are parts of the road that have already been damaged. But they still keep the villagers. Look at these fruits. These fruits. Normally where I have gone. They know it as Jargancha. They have several denominations. In different places. They have their own names. And they are very sweet and pleasant. When they are already in their season of maturity. The lagoon that we are seeing here. It has a green coloration. That is because it generates phytoplankton. They are algae that are under the water. And that makes with the reflection of the light. It makes that coloration present. Now we are not seeing it so green. But as soon as the sun gets higher. We are going to witness much better. We are going to walk almost an average of one and a half kilometers. To get to where people live. Far from the town. This life is something unique. The people here are very kind. We are in the department of Huánuco. By the district of Molinos. This place is called the valley of the lagoons. Because here many lagoons abound. Here you can see ancestral roads. All this is already a product of the ancient settlers. This comes more than 500 years ago. All this construction. All this part is very stoned. As our ancestors were more curious. And a much better job in stoning their roads. That way they connected with other towns. To make the exchange. Formerly our Incas. They did not handle what is the currency. They did not know the money. Normally we have already learned enough of that. They did what is the trueque. The trueque is an exchange of products. What happened? People who lived in the heights. They made an exchange with those of the jungle or the coast. They usually exchanged potatoes with salt. Corn with salt. Or meat with other products. And so they lived quietly. With very healthy food. And as our Incas had already dominated many forms of life. Like the breeding of animals. Domestication. They had also made genetics. In certain types of products. Interesting things. And even here these roads are very beautiful. That's why these mountains are full of a lot of history. I know that this lagoon has stories. Tales, stories of the grandparents. Ahead there is a hut. They no longer live because I see that it is falling little by little. Let's hope to find someone. There in front is the house. There is a house. But I do not see people. Let's try to get closer. But I want to show you this hut a little. This is how you live in the field. But this apparently serves as a refuge. What they do when they come from the field. That is, they come from below the town. Sometimes they go up to their rooms. Sometimes they make these huts. It is in order to serve as a refuge. So that they can shade from the rain, the heat. Or maybe also to store their things. That's what it's for. That's why we see a pot. And here we are seeing a small bug. There it is. This can be seen from the view of a good time they have left. But you must see someone ahead. Up there are one, two, four people. We have called him to see what he tells us. It seems that they are people who live here in this room. Look ahead there is a beautiful house. There is a townspeople coming from here. From the heights of Banco. Good morning. How are you? Walking through this beautiful place. This is a townspeople from here? Yes, this is Linda Linda. Linda Linda. Yes, really. What is your father's name? Wilmer Mays Gonzalez. Gonzalez. A local last name. Yes. And you, what is your family name? Medrano. From Juninho. Good for the visit. I see, but a beautiful place. All full of vegetation, lagoons. And now what are you harvesting? Now we are harvesting seedlings. Seedlings. Here we plant directly for seedlings. And here we go down a little lower to plant first. To send directly to Lima. Here I open the seedlings. And I take it down there. This is to plant right here. What is it, dad? Yellow potato. Mr. Wilmer is explaining to us. That this is very useful for seeds. Without fertilizer we do not plant anything. We plant, we chacmeamos, that's it. This does not know fertilizer, nothing, nothing. This is natural. We do not fertilize either. This does not know insecticide or pesticide, nothing, nothing. Here we do not throw. We simply plant, then we chacmeamos. That's it. That's how it produces, dad. Without fertilizer, without anything. Look, how many would like to eat this potato? Natural. This one does not know fertilizer. Of course, sometimes here due to the scarcity of ... We do not bring anything. We do not even bring meat. We do not bring. We plant them. And then we chacmeamos a little. We scratch a little lamp. And that's it. That's how it produces. Natural. From here we already throw. From here a little lower. We take this to sow for the first. We throw a little fertilizer. Its farm is already potatoes. It produces just like that. It is also for the jungle. For Lima, it goes to Santanita. That's what we send. That is, the potatoes here that are produced are very free of organic pesticides. It has nothing, nothing. No pesticides. They have nothing, no chemicals. Nothing. What our friend Wilmer tells us is that the potatoes that they grow from here reaches what is the capital of Lima. Yes. That is, all those who are knowing and seeing all this place. Look where the potatoes come from, from the field. From this place is where the potatoes go. This is a very old house. Friends, we are going to go. I assure you that this house is more than 200 years old. His great-grandparents have lived. Look at these beautiful rooms. These are places where nature here is very beautiful. You have seen. Lagoon, landscape, mountains and water. Friend Wilmer, what a beautiful house. A stone house. Ancient, ancestral. How many years, friend Wilmer, has the house been here? Yes, the house is almost 200 years old. My grandparents also told me that this is how they found it. They were from their grandparents. That's how they found me. That's why my father said, fix the roof. A little house, nothing more. Because this is eternal. And the curiosity that calls us is that, look how it is built. There are stones. These are known as lajas. They are thin stones that come off easily from the rocks. This abounds a lot around here, that's why you can see it. And they have stacked one on top of another. Look, even the smallest stones are well chopped. There is your house. A lot of firewood, plenty. Two floors, friend Wilmer, or one floor? Two floors. The first floor, we practically used it to store potatoes. Here we planted Wachuich potatoes. Without fertilizer, just with carnation. And we kept that for consumption. In a little corner. And from there we consumed it. To work, right? We didn't just plant, plant, plant. We kept the Wachuich for consumption. In a little corner. So that way it's good for the whole year. For the whole year, we kept it. And friend Wilmer, some people wonder. The skin, the skin of the animal. There it is. What is it for? It's practically for our seat, to sit comfortably. It's natural too. And it also serves as a mattress, right? To sleep. And we put together three little skins. To sleep. Natural strawberry. Almost natural. We slept too, right? We didn't buy it. It was a mattress for sale, right? We had this sheepskin skin. With that we slept. What he explains to us is that the skin of the sheep. That is, that is the skin of the sheep. And since the sheep has a lot of wool. That is washed. And it is used as a bed, as a mattress. And it is very soft. About six or eight of those are stacked on top of woods. And it is already used to rest. And there are still some people who practice it in this way. In other words, in several things it is useful, right? This wool of the sheep. In some women it is a little longer. The wool of the sheep is a little longer. Sometimes women are more dedicated to this style, right? They make blankets. They make practically more blankets. Puyos, blankets, medias. There it is. They also make that wool. Ah, look well. They also take advantage of doing this handicraft work. Yes. Especially women. There are few, but they always come here. Yes. Here, practically, yes. They make more baskets, blankets. They make more wool blankets. Right now, as we are young, we use this little. My parents, my mothers, they had punches of pure wool. Wool. They also had wool jackets. The generation has changed a lot. To the synthetics. Exactly. And look, friends, I want to show you from up here. I want to show you. This is the beautiful house, but it is two floors. There it is. First floor and second floor. And the construction is, as you have seen, based on pure stones. And the roof is made of straw. But look at this beautiful landscape, friends. This is leaving your door and having a view to the lagoon, to the mountains. This is the beautiful place of Hueragpampa. Friend Willer, why do they call it Hueragpampa? What is the name due to? Well, it's called air, right? In Spanish we call it air. Pampa is flat earth, right? Like a table, right? That's why my grandparents used to call it Hueragpampa. Huera means air in Spanish, right? In Quechua we say Huera. As you can see, it's flat. We call it Pampa. Flat earth, Pampa, like all that. Here is a table, a Pampón. It's like a stadium, right? That's why it's called Pampa. Exactly. Father, tell us, what is the kitchen? This is the kitchen. This is the kitchen, this is the bedroom. The kitchen and the rooms. Both, two floors. It has like a little roof, right? So that when he comes, he rests there, calm. Now we are going to understand much better why the lagoon is known as Mitraposo. And it also has a story. According to the townspeople, there are some legends. Here lived ancient civilizations. Look, this is an old house. These come from the pre-Incas. What culture will have lived here, my friend Willer? Will they have lived ancient cultures? Because look at the constructions. How they have been able to carve that rock and have this entrance. The door is quite narrow and small. One meter and twenty high or one meter and thirty. More than 500 years, my friend Willer, this house. As you can see, all the natural resources are already filling up. But the question is how these stones have been able to carve it. Imagine how it would be an old center. Practically from the study they have not known anything. So there is no study here that they have been able to identify? No. How is it not carved? Of course, from the pre-Incas. A fairly old house of the pre-Incas. And even so, like these little houses, there are few. There is not much anymore. Today we are seeing one. But it tells us that everything in this forest that is difficult to access. There are more corrals and houses. The access is this way. One has to see the ease of being able to enter. And down here is the beautiful lagoon. A lagoon with a lot of history and also truchas. This is the lagoon of Metraposo. Before we called it Metraposo. My grandparents also knew it as Metra. I asked them why they called it Metraposo. To know the history of Metraposo. I told them that Metraposo means the lagoons that there are a lot. And the lagoon, the well, is the lagoon. For that reason, the lagoons have hidden the treasure. Before, there was a tower here. At the top of Metra, not above. A stone tower, more than 500 meters long. There were huge stone towers. And in the middle there was a golden snake. Surrounded by that stone. High, 500 meters. And the Spaniards came to loot this treasure. They wanted to take it out. Because the Incas had little power. They were going to take it out of the treasure. And the lagoon moved. It trembled. With all the beings. Just that day, that big stone, which was 500 meters high. It came down, it collapsed. The whole area of ​​the Incas was buried. The Inca population was at the bottom. There are stones piled up, almost close to the population of Linda Linda. And the treasures that were in the hill. He put it here in the lagoon of Metraposo. That is, Mitre is already a hidden treasure. Mitre, as it is Lajas. That's why we call it Metraposo. That's why there are these Lajas. Big rocks. As you can see from here down. What goes down, you can also see that there are cracks. They have detached. Exactly. Stones. That's why, my friend, we call it Metraposo. And something that our friend Wilmer tells us. Is that this lagoon has a very interesting history. From here, when the Spaniards came 500 years ago. Here there was a larger mountain. And you can see until now, that part that I am indicating. That part, you can see the detachment. I'm going to try to make the drone fly to show you. You can see the detachment. And from there it has slipped. When the Spaniards have come. That is, the hill, the lagoon with a very strong power of our Incas. That hill has slipped. And all this part has been filled with stones. Because if we see all that part of the forest. Down there are stones. And really quite strange. It seems as if something had erupted. Some time ago as a volcano. And the stones have watered it. But there is something very interesting. Look, all these stones that we are seeing from here. They are, it seems, black stones. Stones, it seems, volcanic. Something very curious and different to see in other lagoons. Because normally in other parts it is different. But here the story changes a lot. That's what they tell us, right? That this lagoon has a very beautiful story. Very interesting. That a treasure is hidden inside this place. The stick is put like this. And what he is doing is putting the sticks. For what? Why? Because they tell us that there are sticks that have been left sometimes internally. It is a beautiful story what our friend Wilmer tells us. Because these slabs, I see them commenting. Our friend Wilmer went there to look for some sticks. As he says, there have always been sticks on the way. Interesting things. And this is what these slabs tell us. Look at these stones. It is a very interesting shape of these stones. And this is what many use in their houses. They use it to put on the floor. They make very nice decorations. There is a lot around here. An interesting story. Oh, he's calling us. Now we are going to look. What happened? What happened? It seems that he found a stick. You see, I tell you that there are always sticks. Look, look. He grabbed a stick. Kill him, kill him. Father. There is the stick. River stick. Yes, river stick. The stick came out of the lagoon. And these sticks ... Oh, damn, look at the size. There is the stick. You have already killed it. It's already there. It just came out. Look. There are a lot of sticks around here. How beautiful. And always like this in the wells, there is a friend Wilmer. To look for, to find. Yes, to look for. At least it's cold. Oh, there goes the stick. And how were you looking for it? Now we are going to look for more. We already have one for lunch. They hide. Yes, they hide. There he told us that there is another one. Small? There are a lot of small ones. Oh, little ones. Yes, they are small. They are tender. When they are born, they come out. Yes, yes, yes. Little ones, like that, like that. Little ones will be about three centimeters or four centimeters. I just saw several. There is another one around here. Yes, yes, yes. There it is. Touch it, touch it. This time, this time. Yes, yes. This time. Yes, yes, yes. It is not very noticeable with the noise of the water. Yes, there it is. Small trouts. I mean, what is happening? Our friend Wilmer tells us that the trouts, as the water has already gone down in these times, then some trouts have remained in these small wells. Although the water is going down, but there are already parts where the water no longer passes through the lagoon. Ah, yes, through the river, always through the river. And look. We found one. He killed him in one so he wouldn't escape. So that's how you look for trout and fish too. A more practical way. Ah, interesting things. Yes. Look, with a trout we are leaving. For lunch. That size, there are only trouts here or do they grow bigger? There are more. Bigger. This one is a little smaller. More here. One kilo? Two kilos. One and a half kilos. One kilo of trout. Here, big. Ah, look. Coincidentally, we found a trout in these small wells. My friend Wilmer. Yes. In the morning it was very beautiful, quiet. Very deep also in the lagoon. Yes, the lagoon is deep. Now, friends, after a trout by chance, we are going to La Chaca. We are going to help gather the potato, the seeds that are used to cultivate what leads to Lima, to the capital. Those plants, as you say, are used for seeds. This is how the potatoes are taken out first, for seeds. My friend Wilmer tells us that this is one year of planting of your potato. Yes, one year of cultivation here. Last year I planted at the end of July, now I'm planting like this, in July. Normally, it is harvested at 8 or 9 months. But right now, for the seed, it has to be well guarded. Otherwise, it does not grow. Of course, because if you notice, look, the grass has already grown on top of the potato. Yes. So here it is not for chopping. Many can say, I already chop. It has to be chopped on one side, so as not to cut the potato. If not, also, one who does not know, will cut the potato like this. Yes. And so it goes looking slowly, slowly. And there it goes taking out. Those potatoes are the ones that are used for seeds, you tell me. It is only for seeds. Look, what a beautiful potato. No pesticides, nothing, nothing. Only that it is natural. These potatoes tell us that they are quite useful for seeds. These are known here as the first. These are used again to be able to sow here. And again they take out seeds. And the small ones are used to sow. Healthy. Just up to there, right? Yes, the rest is left. Yes, yes, yes. It is not like there that they sow it. For business there. They take out the small ones. Friends, we have just finished a part of harvesting the potato. And the side that our friend is carrying is the potato first, which is going to serve as a seed. The second also serves, but it already serves to take what is for business. Here it is sown only pure and chaketake. Here no tractor enters, nothing. Here it is sown only artisanally, pure manual. I had a little lack here to advance this whole part. There are the potatoes. Our friend Wilmer is going to tell us a little. Here in the field, how is Wilmer's food fed? Here, with the harvest, practically potatoes. Potatoes sown with the natural. And here is the field bichara. Then this is taken advantage of. And what is done is sown the potato that you yourself cultivate. Exactly. And here is the sown potato. This is the potato that you cultivate. There is the yellow potato. Look. There are the two friends. Three, right? Yes. Now friends, we are going to approach the beautiful lagoon. And here I want to show you something interesting. After being up there in the mountains with our friends. After they have taught us a little more. How is life in the field. The hard work that is done every day. And the potato that they cultivate. As healthy as possible. They do not use pesticides or chemicals. Only field fertilizer. Animal fertilizer. And now we come to Metracocha. They have told us here that all these stones that we are seeing. All these immense rocks. It is the product of the sliding of one of the mountains up there. That sliding has caused all these stones to be here. Watered. So where we are going to go is to a small place. A pretty beautiful place. Where we are going to fry the trout. There are some huts around here. These are houses of the ancestors who lived in Antigua Mena. Here we are going to stay. In this part. This is where we are going to make a small bonfire. We are looking for a suitable place. And also what we are doing is looking for some stones. That are especially for frying. For say something like these stones. We are going to try to find one there. It will serve as a base to put the trouts. And around here there is firewood. Look, we are going to cut a couple of firewood. And based on this we are going to do something. Here is what they have planted. Potato. Let's look. There must be potatoes. No, you can't. There it is. Ah, it's not potato. It's oyuko. Look. This is oyuko. This is very tasty. All those who have eaten oyuko are very tasty. Look around here. More oyuko. The food here is healthy, friends. See? Beautiful. Well, let's leave it there. Let's cover it as it was. When the person comes to cultivate or harvest, it will be there. Look at this small plot. It's small. It's a small chatra space that they have planted oyuko. Who will be the family? We don't know. But well, we are going to leave our things. And we are going to approach the lagoon. Here are some stones. Look, this is what we need. Around here we have found a stone. Look. This stone is very good. Or maybe this small one. There is also another one. No. This one here is much better. Now what we are going to do is wash. We are going to wash this stone. Look. It fits very well. Although we also found others for something smaller. But I think this is the right thing. Here is going to go the trout. And we are going to fry the potato. Here in this lagoon there is trout. Now it is much better. Clean. Now we are going to set up the kitchen upstairs. And we are going to make our grill trout. We are going to take the firewood that is here. Look. Here is a lot of firewood. This is what the villagers collect from here. Or maybe the plants. They cut them a little so they can plant. Sometimes the plant also spoils the crop. So that's why they cut it. And they already accommodate it. We are going to take a few to fry. The good thing is that the whole line is dry. Let's see how much. Because it is not much for a trout. The goal is to heat the stone. Once the stone is hot, the trout will serve a lot. I think that's enough. This is enough. How am I supporting myself with the camera? Thanks, I brought a tripod. And thanks also to the camera that helps me a lot to record. Here it will serve to make the fire. And it will be very suitable in front of the lagoon. There it is. The stone will serve as a pan. I'm going to try to find some more stones. That will serve as a base. And there we are going to attack everything. This will serve to be able to put here. There it is. And here on top the trout will go. The trout is already. Look, there it is. This is what we are going to put on top of this stone. And that way the stone trout will come out. Or grilled trout. As we could call it. Maybe a grilled stone trout. There. There our delicious trout will come out. This straw serves a lot to be able to light faster. There. A little cardboard that we have found. Well, let's hope everything goes well. This is life in the mountains of Peru. You fish the trout in these immense lagoons. And you put to fry on top of a stone pan. There it is. Only the stone will serve as a pan. There the trout is already frying. The stone serves as a pan. But you have to look for a very flat stone. And that the trout can stay there. That is the fire. Only pure firewood is cooked here. There is nothing else. It's pure firewood. And that's it, friends. The stone trout. I'm going to leave it one more minute there. So that I can heat the potato. Only the potato. The trout is already there. What we are going to do is turn off. Take out the big firewood. And that's it. We just took out all the firewood. That was ... Look at the trout. How the meat came out. Very good. Although it is cooling a little. It is because the stone is quite hot. The potato ends up hot. And look at this potato. This is what they harvest. Here. Very nice, friends. That's how the meat comes off. Alone. Friends, now we are leaving. There we are going to leave the stone. Where we have fried the trout. We have had lunch. Really, something very nice. And there are still trout coming out. And they are biting. Sometimes the insects stop on top of the lagoon. Of the water. And that's where the trout comes out. That's how you fish. Well, we're leaving. Here there are many stories to tell you. According to what they were telling us. Here are old settlers. Very old people. That's why you see these pots, stones. There it is. Over there we have also seen another. And so. There are many stories.