Monday, 1 September 2014
After this we travelled back to Chivay, which is the biggest town in the Colca valley. It really is not very big at all. Here we had lunch, and I tried alpaca meat for the first time. I forgot to ask the temple priest whether it is ok for a Hindu to eat alpacas, but anyway it is too late. It tastes nothing like any other meat I've ever tasted before, not unpleasant but very tough, have to chew for a long time. Then to the hostel. In the afternoon there was an option to go to the La Calera hot springs but I didn't want to go there as I do not swim, so I walked around the town, which is really the smallest town I've been in yet. It is approximately 3,600m above sea level. It was raining slightly but I walked anyway and I almost froze to death! The temperature here is 8 to 10 degrees Celcius, sweet mother of lord! I took a few pictures and came back to the hostel and the hostel keeper (God bless her soul) saw that I was a walking block of ice and made me hot coca tea which made me feel better. I think I may need to buy some gloves, I couldn't feel my fingers at some point!
At 7 pm the bus fetched us from our hostel to go and have dinner. Here there was a musical and dance performance showing the Andean culture. I ate lots of ahi (chilli) and drank a pisco sour and I felt warm for 2 minutes before we had to go back to the hostel again in the blistering cold. I really can't take this extreme weather of hot one minute and cold the next. In Quito it was cold, the Galápagos hot during the day and cold at night, Guayaquil hot hot hot, Lima cold, Paracas, Ica and Nasca bloody hot during the day and cold at night, Arequipa hot during the day and cold at night. Forget amphibians. I feel like a cross breed between fire and ice. Another extreme for me is that some days I end up eating only once a day, usually when I'm travelling long distance, and then some days like today, I eat 3 full meals in a day. I don't know what I'm turning into, some kind of pseudo human being, hot and cold, hungry and full.
After this we travelled back to Chivay, which is the biggest town in the Colca valley. It really is not very big at all. Here we had lunch, and I tried alpaca meat for the first time. I forgot to ask the temple priest whether it is ok for a Hindu to eat alpacas, but anyway it is too late. It tastes nothing like any other meat I've ever tasted before, not unpleasant but very tough, have to chew for a long time. Then to the hostel. In the afternoon there was an option to go to the La Calera hot springs but I didn't want to go there as I do not swim, so I walked around the town, which is really the smallest town I've been in yet. It is approximately 3,600m above sea level. It was raining slightly but I walked anyway and I almost froze to death! The temperature here is 8 to 10 degrees Celcius, sweet mother of lord! I took a few pictures and came back to the hostel and the hostel keeper (God bless her soul) saw that I was a walking block of ice and made me hot coca tea which made me feel better. I think I may need to buy some gloves, I couldn't feel my fingers at some point!
At 7 pm the bus fetched us from our hostel to go and have dinner. Here there was a musical and dance performance showing the Andean culture. I ate lots of ahi (chilli) and drank a pisco sour and I felt warm for 2 minutes before we had to go back to the hostel again in the blistering cold. I really can't take this extreme weather of hot one minute and cold the next. In Quito it was cold, the Galápagos hot during the day and cold at night, Guayaquil hot hot hot, Lima cold, Paracas, Ica and Nasca bloody hot during the day and cold at night, Arequipa hot during the day and cold at night. Forget amphibians. I feel like a cross breed between fire and ice. Another extreme for me is that some days I end up eating only once a day, usually when I'm travelling long distance, and then some days like today, I eat 3 full meals in a day. I don't know what I'm turning into, some kind of pseudo human being, hot and cold, hungry and full.
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