Woke up and went to Jacks for a breaky like those you would get back home. I ate a plateful of delicious pancakes and got a stomach ache – worth it. Jon couldn’t go past the cooked breakfast, he never can. I think Jon could have spent the whole day there, instead I dragged him around to the museums that were on our 10 day pass. The museos as they are called here, were rather crap to say the least. The contemporary art was not to our taste (that is being polite) and the two other historic museums had a small collection of broken pots. The mummies in fetal position (ready for their rebirth into the after life – a museum exhibition) were interesting with their bits of matted hair but they only took up a whole five minutes of our time. There was also some Spanish colonial art but I am a bit over the blood and gore in the paintings (they seem to love it) and various oddly distorted saints – one looked like he had elaphantitus. The abundance of gold leaf is a bit much as well.
In the evening we watched The Dark Knight. You needed a whole night to watch it – it went forever.
Sunday… back to Jacks. When you are onto a good thing you should stick to it! As we were wondering back to Plaza De Armas (the heart of the ancient Inca capital and modern day Cusco's main square), we noticed some sort of parade was on. I am not entirely sure what it was for but it involved hundreds of children in different year levels ranging from grades one to three. They were all dressed up in traditional costumes and were all performing different dances (I assume from the region their costumes were derived from). I was very impressed with the standard of dress and dance moves. These kids were definitely not from Pumamarca – they had way too much money to spend on costumes (presumably) and their feet were very clean (our kids feet are caked in filth. I am not sure they have been clean since birth). One lot of kids were carrying around skulls that looked amazingly realistic – I wonder where they dug them up from. Unfortunately I didn’t get a good pic of them.
In the late afternoon Jon went with a bunch of others to watch Cusco beat Lima at soccer by a penalty in extra time. I stayed behind as I felt rather ill (bad cold). Some of the girls were rather concerned when Jon and Terry sampled the local fare on offer in the stadium.
Note: Both are fine, some of the girls are not!
3 comments:
Just thought I'd let you know that I picked up your Africa package today, (thought is was my computer, very disappointed) so it made it (very happy)! Apparently its been sitting in quarantine for the last few months being fumigated!
Hi. Your photos are lovely. How is your Spanish going? Fluent?!
Karyn, I know it's your birthday on Friday, but I haven't sent anything - I don't have an address. Do you have one I can send to? Is it worth doing this or won't you be there long enough? Sorry I'm late with this - only excuse is that I've been busy with my parents in the last week.
If I can't call you, I will send you an email on the day.
Look after yourself both of you. x Clare
Hi Guys, Wow these photos are just amazing. Just like the travel brochures!! You look like you are both immersed in the culture now. I bet this will be a highlight of your trip as you get to know the people more. It will be wonderful. I think that is what makes your trips most memorable. Enjoy the moment. Look forward to hearing how your work is going senor and senorita :)
I am back into it and snowed under in a week. Hagar have already sent a pile of guideline requests that they would like by Friday if you don't mind!! I may get a couple done tomorrow on my day off.
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