Hello All,
I have been MIA recently but is only because I am having such a blast in my new home of VIlcabamba. Vilcabamba is a little town near the Peruvian border and the best way to describe it is heaven. The weather? Perfect. The people? Kind, fun, and interesting. The view from my new bedroom? To die for. I will be writing more soon, I promise but now I need to get to work!
Monday, March 26, 2012
Saturday, January 7, 2012
Hiking Adventures
Really pretty moss growing on a fence post
Heart of Darkness
Starting off on our hike
Everything is SO BIG
Into the underbrush we go
Never ending forest
I fell down
My other boot is still firmly lodged in the mud
I decided it would be a good idea to pretend to lick my boot
It was not... I wound up actually licking it by mistake
Wilfredo had to help me get my boot out
MUD
Washing my hand in the creek
Here you can sort of see just how ridiculously steep these hills are
Here you can really see it
Pretty flower close up
Alpacas!
Female Alpacas in their pen waiting to be evaluated
Close upe
Another Cute Face
Every face is different
Very curious but very shy
Wilfredo and the Alpacas
Such pretty faces
Free at last
Up on the hill side
It is hard to portray how steep the hill is between us but it is very steep
This sort of shows it
Happy Alpacas
Finally CAught Up: Trip to the Ranch in Sangay National Park
Bread and Bananas!
Our classy transport
We fed our banana peels to a pig on the side of the road
This was a horse that was very upset about having to get out of the road for us
An interesting house on the side of the road
The road gets smaller
The CUTEST piglets ever were just snuggling on the side of the road
A church
The road gets even smaller and has a river running across it
Crossing the river
The road gets even smaller
At the ranch house Seb is wearing a local traditional mask
Pre Colombian grinding stone. There are at least one hundred of these around the ranch
Cross section of a very large plant
Catching Up #5: The Holidays
All the food I made for Thanksgiving
Fruitcake Hats
Gingerbread cookies made with unrefined cane sugar syrup instead of molasses!
Christmas Eve Parade
More of the Christmas Parade
Really cool mask in the parade
Pretty girl with traditional indigenous outfit
My adorable cousin Tomas
Pablo's side of the family (this is the small side of the family)
Anos Viejos which will get burned later
Tomas in a devil mask for New Years
More New Years Masks (I am on the right)
My host parents Pablo and Dora
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