I will not be able to post tomorrow, and possibly not the day after either because we are going on a hike.
This morning I was woken up by, given the altitude, a probably fictional mosquitoe buzzing in my ear, followed by a reflexive, and definitely not fictionalized, slap to the ear, serving to wake me completely at 4.15.
Breakfast was included with out hotel, but we did not understand the people who raved about it in reviews; unremarkable eggs, unremarkable juice, unremarkable bread and margarine (we substituted the butter we had bought).
Went for a hike to find the market (closed) and to an internet cafe where, if it hadn't cost 2 Bolivianos an hour (2/7s of a dollar) I would have griped about paying for the slowness of the computers. After checking emails we waited with the throng of people outside the cafe for a wedding party coming from the church for about half and hour, and though we saw liberal amounts of white plastic confeti, we missed the bride.
Lunch was tortillas with pickled jalapenos and potatoes and beans and cheese, and while my parents napped I practiced my violin.
My looked at some hotels for the end of January--we think we'll be on the beach in Uruguay for my birthday, and then head to the 40-day carnival--using what little wi-fi we had, and after we walked out to a large park.
The park was filled with people and bouncy-houses and horses and go-carts and people and vendors and people, and it is so nice to have a place where everybody goes in the evening to walk and sit and watch. It really just isn't done in America.
We also stopped at a travel agency and made rather spur-of-the-moment plans for an overnight filled with walking on either side, the first day a stop at a weaving village and on Tuesday to see fossilized dinosaur tracks.
If I can get the internet to work properly, I will put in some pictures of the first 2 days of our Manu treks below. Never mind, I can't.
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