Guinea-pig night
Skip this entry if you are of a sensitive disposition!
I am a bad person. I shall say no more, those of you who have read the earlier entries should be able to refer to the title of today´s blog and infer what I mean by this. It was a group experience and we agreed that it actually tasted rather nice, like chicken but a slightly stronger flavour. Anyway, it can be put down to experience now, never to be repeated...
Yesterday we went to some more Inca ruins and travelled through the sacred valley to get back to Cusco. We managed to lose one of the group up a mountain as he has vertigo and wanted to take a shortcut down, unfortunately because he was looking only at the ground he missed the rest of us and carried on all the way down, so we had a 90-minute search in which our guide was bricking it. Anyway, he turned up safe in the end which is all that matters, which is why we had to have the traditional celebratory dinner.
Today we had a lie-in til 8am which was luxury as usually we´ve had to get up much earlier. Our guide took us to one of the local markets which was amazing, loads of fruit and veg on display, meat being butchered on-site and huge piles of tripe and stuff everywhere. The most disgusting thing however was the stall selling things to be used as offerings to the sun gods (part of Inca culture) - as well as herbs and gifts, they were doing a roaring trade in dried llama foetuses. Eew. I didn´t buy one, obviously.
We´re going to continue chilling out today as tomorrow it´s an early start to fly to the Amazon jungle where we´ve got 2 nights in a jungle lodge. Seems today is the last proper shopping day (aside from the way home when I´ve got 12 hours in Newark to look forward to - might just have to pop into New York for a few hours) so I´m off now to support the local economy some more!
I am a bad person. I shall say no more, those of you who have read the earlier entries should be able to refer to the title of today´s blog and infer what I mean by this. It was a group experience and we agreed that it actually tasted rather nice, like chicken but a slightly stronger flavour. Anyway, it can be put down to experience now, never to be repeated...
Yesterday we went to some more Inca ruins and travelled through the sacred valley to get back to Cusco. We managed to lose one of the group up a mountain as he has vertigo and wanted to take a shortcut down, unfortunately because he was looking only at the ground he missed the rest of us and carried on all the way down, so we had a 90-minute search in which our guide was bricking it. Anyway, he turned up safe in the end which is all that matters, which is why we had to have the traditional celebratory dinner.
Today we had a lie-in til 8am which was luxury as usually we´ve had to get up much earlier. Our guide took us to one of the local markets which was amazing, loads of fruit and veg on display, meat being butchered on-site and huge piles of tripe and stuff everywhere. The most disgusting thing however was the stall selling things to be used as offerings to the sun gods (part of Inca culture) - as well as herbs and gifts, they were doing a roaring trade in dried llama foetuses. Eew. I didn´t buy one, obviously.
We´re going to continue chilling out today as tomorrow it´s an early start to fly to the Amazon jungle where we´ve got 2 nights in a jungle lodge. Seems today is the last proper shopping day (aside from the way home when I´ve got 12 hours in Newark to look forward to - might just have to pop into New York for a few hours) so I´m off now to support the local economy some more!
posted by Hannah | 7:09 pm
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Oi! It's Thursday! Do you think being in the middle of nowhere is an excuse for no blog entry?
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