Arequipa -- birthday celebration
Don-- So, yes. My 40th birthday arrived and the world did not stop turning. There was no great earthquake or disaster of any kind. In fact, people here in Arequipa hardly seemed to notice my birthday at all. Both Mau and I suffered from the double-walking "death rattle" pneumonia and the altitude-illness and were pretty miserable but we got out to see "Juanita" the mummy-girl sacrificed 500 years ago by the Inca and discovered on a volcano at 5000 meters, and went out for a birthday feast of pisco sour (the national drink, kid of a cousin to the margarita), ceviche, alpaca steaks, cuy (guinea pig), and chocolate cake. Oh yes, and plenty of Coca tea for the altitiude sickness.
We leave in the am on a 3 day trek through Colca Canyon, the deepest canyon in the world, stay with the campesinos in small villages, visit hot springs, check out condor nests.
posted by Don-n-Mau @ Wednesday, May 18, 2005
2 comments
2 Comments:
Hope that you are feeling better. How high up in the mountains are you? AKA How much higher is it than Tahoe?
Did you go down into the Canyon on a burrow or did you hike? Did you see any big nests or other interesting wildlife?
DR
I couldn't wait for the next update but I saw the pictures. Cacawawa?! Is that what it sounds and how is it sacred? Disgusting. Miss you!
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