Sailing Catamaran: Monestario Santa Catalina

Countries visited by boat

1 nautical mile(nm)=1.86km

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Antigua & Barbuda.....61 nm

Australia...........1239 nm

Bahamas.......2009...529 nm

Bahamas.......2012...607 nm

British Indies

- Turks and Caicos

- ......2009..........45 nm

- Turks and Caicos

- ......2012.........478 nm

- Montserrat..........33 nm

Canary Ialands.......172 nm

Cape Verde.............5 nm

Colombia.............293 nm

Dominica..............37 nm

Dominican Republic...293 nm

Equator

- Galapagos............5 nm

Egypt................846 nm

Eritrea..............273 nm

Fiji...................5 nm

French Indies

- St-Marteen.2009....103 nm

- St-Marteen.2012....103 nm

- St-Barth............19 nm

- Guadeloupe.........124 nm

- Martinique..........67 nm

French Polynesia...1,043 nm

Grenada...............85 nm

Greece...............558 nm

Gibraltar.............37 nm

Indonesia..........1,656 nm

Italia...............672 nm

Malaysia.............449 nm

Maldives...............5 nm

Netherlands Antilles

- Bonaire............ 44 nm

- Curacao............ 63 nm

- Aruba.............. 55 nm

Maroc................146 nm

Panama...............692 nm

Puerto Rico (US).....222 nm

Samoa..................5 nm

St-Kitt and Nevis.....61 nm

St-Vincent............80 nm

Singapore.............47 nm

Spain................818 nm

Sri Lanka..............5 nm

Sudan................337 nm

Thailand ............166 nm

Turkey...............419 nm

USA................1,760 nm

Vanuatu................5 nm

Venezuela............391 nm

Virgin Islands (US)

...........2009.......21 nm

Virgin Islands (US)

...........2012......107 nm

Virgin Islands (US)...21 nm

Yemen................457 nm

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46 countries......15,764 nm

Ocean Passages

1 nautical mile(nm)=1.86km

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Pacific ocean

- Panama to

....Galapagos.......880 nm

- Galapagos to

....Marquesas......3050 nm

- French Polynesia to

....Samoa..........1179 nm

- Samoa to

....Fiji............574 nm

- Fiji to

....Vanuatu.........711 nm

- Vanuatu to

....Australia.....1,320 nm

Indian ocean

- Darwin to

....Kupang..........476 nm

- Thailand to

....Sri Lanka.....1,150 nm

- Sri Lanka to

....Maldives........457 nm

- Maldives to

....Yemen..........1503 nm

Atlantic ocean

- Rabat Morocco to

....Canary Islands..459 nm

- Canary Islands to

....Cape Verde...s..866 nm

- Cape Verde to

....Antigua.......2,111 nm

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3 oceans.........14,736 nm

Friday, September 25, 2009

Monestario Santa Catalina

In the middle of the city of Arequipa sits a very old monastery of isolated nuns that stayed cut of the world for over 400 years. No need to say that the visit was really worth. The monastery, open to the public for about 20 years, was founded in 1579 by a rich widow. It is probably unique in the world and there is now less than 30 nuns still living within these walls.

It is a real city within the city, with its streets, places, etc. It was the last fashion, for the daughters of the rich Spanish families, to enter the mosnastery as a nun (bringing with them a significant dot of course). They could have up to four servants or slaves, organize soirées and live like in the high society. But in 1870 these privileges were removed. For 300 years the 450 nuns and servants lived sheltered from the sight and influences of the outside world to focus solely on their spiritual progression bringing them, by privation, prayer and meditation, at a unique state of consciousness and love of Jesus Christ. In 1970 the building was open to the public to bring it to the norms of modernity.

Today the 30 or so nuns only live in a small portion of the monastery. Since the visit of Jean Paul II in 1985 they have the right to talk and to go out. You can see here one of the cells they used to live in. The new cells seem to be more modern, at least based on what we can see from the roof since this part of the monastery is obviously not opened to the public.

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Friday, September 25, 2009

Monestario Santa Catalina