Bye Ik, We miss South America, Fly To Berlin

Trip Start Sep 29, 2007
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Where I stayed
backpackers Boutique Hostel
(Berlin hotels)

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Wednesday, July 30, 2008

Yesterday we went to the Belen markets to stock up on medicinal suppies from the ladies in Medicine Alley. Most of these items are derived from the Amazon area and canīt be bought elsewhere. I bought lots of natural, raw, jungle tobacco for my cat pipe, noni, maca and Una de gato tablets for health, copal and Santo pollo incense and we also bought some doses of San pedro cactus to share at the BOOM gathering. We were lucky enough to have the pleasure of  sharing dinner with Ik and then him having a pyjama party with us in our room last night. Before that we had gone to the good-bye BBQ lunch and then said goodbye to Gestallion and our other new friends. We took one of the young jewellery vendors out for a dinner of a quarter chicken and chips and a coke because he was hungry and works too hard for a child. Some other older street kids tried to steal it from him so we put him in a mototaxi and sent him home in safety.

We awoke early and flew from Iquitos to Lima airport where we all sat around with sadness in our hearts. Us three were  the last of the jungle tribe remaining and we had to tear each other apart in saying our good-byes Ics gift
Ics gift
 . Ik is one very cool character and we love him very much. We had some coffees and he read my tarot cards in the airport lounge and presented Nadine and I with a beautiful art piece he had been working on for months. The piece is of a black and white dragon and coloured with all the elements surrounding it and a cross section of an Ayahuasca plant in the middle. The piece was on Don Augustin Rivasīs  table when we drank with him so it has been blessed by the man himself too.

The flights were easy ones with a small stopover in Amsterdam but no time to buy wooden clogs, smoke joints in cafes or chase Miffy rabbits because we were getting into Berlin City and then on to VUUV Festival held at Putlitz after that. I was ill on the plane and spent half the flight in the toilet. We spent the first day in Germany getting over the fact that we have left South America and also negotiating the train, bus and underground subway system. I donīt really think the locals even know their way around the complex public transport system. Most people speak some English but we are forgetting to and are still using our Spanish to talk with people. We spent our last Peruvian Soles on a luxurious box of  duty free Quality Street chocolates and now are on the Euro dollars. Everything is wildly expensive compared to South America and everything seems so civilised, orderly and clean.
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