Beauty Salon and Food Stalls

Trip Start Oct 26, 2007
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Wednesday, December 19, 2007

So. Have now reached the Andean town Riobamba. I walked by a beauty salon that advertised Manicures $2 and Pedicures $3 so I thought IŽd give it a go since the Salon looked so very Peach coloured underneath the dirt on the walls. It was hillarious. The place was an absolute pig stie. The staff had layers and layers of make up probably left on from last week. A smiley girl attended to my feet while another 5 watched and giggled.

After she heated up some water over a gas bottle I got to put my feet in a footbath. She den proceded to randomly cut file and butcher my toe nails. They are now all different lengths and my left index toe is still bleeding. I politely declined having nail polish applied.

Then I got to put my left hand in cold water in a pink tray that looked like it had been used while renovating a house, plus it had two dead ants in it Laundry
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 . She then proceded to fray my right hand nails and push back one or two lucky cubicles. No blood this time. While she was working away on my poor nails one of her friends came in for a chat and used the nail tools on herself while gossiping happily.

Needless to say the black rim of dirt under my nails is still there. So for 5 dollars I got the most useless beauty treatment in the universe, but the experience was worth one MILLION dollars!

Decided to sit down for dinner at one of the street stalls where they were frying pork over charchoal. I know that the travel books advice against it but after all the money I spent on injections back in NZ I was going to get my monies worth. Since I had been vaccinated for salmonella I opted for pork AND chicken.The food was yummy and for a massive plate I paid $2. There were no scraps on the ground as the many dogs keept it very nice and clean.

3 teanagers were sitting next to me half eating half sleeping in their food. Im not sure what they were on but whatever it was they had had quite a lot.
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