The following post is part V (the finale) of a special Potsusaker Post series on a weekend trip to El Valle with our friends Blake and Lisette.
エルバジェで一番楽しかったのは、この蘭センターです。エルバジェからの帰る直前に寄ってきました。地域経済発展と、エルバジェの蘭保全を目的に、日本人の方々が運営されています。この入り口にあった蘭、２０日に１回咲き、たった１日の命だそうです。ラッキーな日に見学に来ました。
Our last stop before leaving El Valle was the Orchid Center, a non-profit group run by some old Japanese men who speak Japanese, English, and Spanish. We arrived on a very, very special day. The purple orchids pictured above only bloom once a year for one day only. And that was the day we were there! Neat!
Our last stop before leaving El Valle was the Orchid Center, a non-profit group run by some old Japanese men who speak Japanese, English, and Spanish. We arrived on a very, very special day. The purple orchids pictured above only bloom once a year for one day only. And that was the day we were there! Neat!
日本やアメリカで人気の胡蝶蘭を栽培して、市場で売るそうです。そうすることで、地元の人々に仕事ができ、野生の蘭を乱伐が少なくなるということです。蘭て、マニアックに好きな人多いのがうなずけます。花がすごくきれいというだけでなくて、寄生植物だから、土もほとんどいらないし、根っこが不思議な形。
The valley walls around El Valle are supposedly a rare place in the world where all sorts of unique and endangered orchids grow. If you go to the market in downtown El Valle, they sell these orchids for $5 a pop. According to the non-profit, that because of the lack of jobs people go up the mountains and harvest whatever orchids they can find to sell to the city's weekend tourists. The center is trying to grow common, non-native orchids for people to sell at the market as an alternative.
The valley walls around El Valle are supposedly a rare place in the world where all sorts of unique and endangered orchids grow. If you go to the market in downtown El Valle, they sell these orchids for $5 a pop. According to the non-profit, that because of the lack of jobs people go up the mountains and harvest whatever orchids they can find to sell to the city's weekend tourists. The center is trying to grow common, non-native orchids for people to sell at the market as an alternative.
これはエルバジェ固有の蘭。すずらんみたいで可愛いです。ここには数百種類の蘭があるのではないでしょうか。種類によってはいいにおいがすんですよ！
The group says that they are trying to create different job opportunities to keep people from harvesting the orchids, but maybe they're really just trying to crush their competitors so they can be the only ones selling at the market. (To be fair the Orchid Center itself does not sell flowers at the market or even at the center).
これもエルバジェの蘭。形と色がきれいでサイズが大きいと乱伐の対象になり易いそうで、こちらも絶滅の危機だそうです。
日本人のガイドさんがおられ、丁寧に説明してくださいました。蘭に魅了されてじっくり見学してしまいました。違法に伐採される蘭が少しでも減りますように。
Nice people. Beautiful flowers.
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