estamos en Pisco
before leaving Cajamarca i decided to get my hair trimmed and was very happy when we found a salon that cut my hair for 5 soles, $1.60. cheapest haircut ever. we took a night bus to Trujillo, got in before the sun came up, waited in the busok station very sleepy and uncomfrotable. once the sun came up we took a bus to Huanchaco which is the beach town about 30 min from Trujillo. We arrived to a hostal recommended to us by friends, but there were no rooms and in the camping in the back only space for 2 more people. we took it and walked back to find about 20 people sleeping in tents with a communal kitchen. they provided us the tents, blankets and pillows and as we were laughing because we could not believe the accomodations, we decided to accept because it was cheap. we spent 3 nights in the tents, cooking our own food and spending our days in hammocks and reading or on the beach. we went running on the beach, found a fisherman pulling in a catch of crabs and we bought a kilo of crabs, 12 in total, some medium and some quite large, for 4 soles which is $1.30. we got back and shared with the others from the hostal, including 3 travelers who just graduated from SUNY Geneseo and one who knows my old roommate Patty. one of our last days we went to Chan Chan which was the capital of the Chumi civilization that inhabited Peru and preceded the Inca empire. it was a beautiful ruins of the capital city where the nobility lived, they are restoring other parts of it but much of it was open to walk through. we went to the museum, met an Argentine couple that gave us some good tips for wine tasting in Argentina which we have decided will be the celebratory end of our 9 months of traveling together and reward to ourselves for our service work, when we get there in april or may.
we took another night bus friday night from Trujillo to Lima, in the morning we swtiched buses to another to go to Pisco. After staying on too long by accident because of the loud action film and not being able to hear the bus attendant, we got off an hour too late, but they switched buses for us and took us back to Pisco no extra charge. we got in here yesterday with Pisco Sin Fronteras which is a grassroots org that helps rebuild Pisco after the devistating earthquake of 2007, the one that happened just after i left Ecuador the first time in august 2007. much of this city is still destroyed. tomorrow we start work, manuel labor which Al is looking forward to. the people here are very friendly, and they will feed us during the week, we can use the kitchen and cook for ourselves on the weekends, which means that finally tonight i will get to try my hand at cooking pizza in a frying pan. i will be going to the market soon with a new friend from Maine that lives in Argentina for the year. Al is playing RISK with 2 young men from Australia and another from Connecticut that graduated from Clarkson U. the RISK game is in spanish and it is funny listening to their bad pronunciations of the countries.
although everyone here speaks English more than i like, they are friendly and i have decided i can overlook that if the service work is really good. but there are a few people that speak spanish and i have been able to speak with them.
later we will look for an evening Mass as well. the church in Huanchaco was wonderful, the priest gave us a blessing and i played their keyboard for a while which made me miss playing Bach, so a few hours of the bus between Trujillo and Lima i listened to the Bach preludes WTC Book 1 which makes me happy and miss the piano at the same time.
todo bien aqui, espero que Uds. esten bien tambien. feliz empieza de la semestre nueva!
all is well here, i hope you all are well also. happy start of the new semester!
Tags: Peru, Pisco
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