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Au pied de l'Eglise
Le mercredi 19, on arrive à 5h du matin à Cajamarca, et comme d'habitude les taxis sont tellement en forme qu’ils ne nous laissent même pas le temps de récupérer les bagages. On trouve un hôtel pour finir la nuit. En fin de matinée, c’est partit pour aller explorer la ville avec son marche confus et bruyant, mais toujours notre option préférée pour le repas du midi. Cajamarca ...
Almost like The Alps
... It was pretty quiet and the architecture was very European so that was probably it. Also, there are actually traffic lights here so there is none of the constant blaring of horns like in Trujillo. There are however strange looking vehicles which consist of a motorbike with an extra wheel added on the back to make it like a motorized rickshaw. They generally get in the way of other vehicles and offer passengers and their teenage drivers zero protection in the case of an ...
Bathing like an Incan King
... that as we rounded the corner a man was hanging out of the mini bus yelling 'Banos!!'. So we clambered in along with a million other people and animals (a guy had a chicken) and set off.
On the road Zach got chatting to a Peruvian lady who had lived in Miami for 30 years. I yet again was designated the 'small person' seat in the front, next to the driver, which is really more of a bench at best. It turned out she was heading to the baths as well so ...
Locals
... I did want to visit right near this town was the Banos del Inca.
The tour I took to get there however went to a few other places first.
Everyone in my minibus was a Peruvian and when we got to a local farm we
met several other groups. This was very much a local tour. I got
chatting to the guide and this was indeed the case. It was very similar
to a farm in England in a way that was there to ...
Visiting Mountain Communities
... with the teachers and a couple of the community members. There was a party going on so not a lot of the community members were around. After going out and checking out a potential site for the wind turbine and talking to the teachers we had some food.
Then we headed out to the other community, Taxapata. After hiking another hour or so across the valley and up the other side we arrived at Taxapata. This time a bunch of people from the community ...
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