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Hello the wolrd out there
We have just arrived to Ayacucho. The sun is so warm up at 2700m, and the air is finally purer than in crouded Lima. We have been extreemeñy lucky for our first two days to have met the perfect guides, two french travelers Manuella et David here for 4 months and a year, and initiated us to the peruvian way. Local buses, little restaurants, menu translation courses so that we didnt end up eating guinea pigs and Ceviche (raw fish in lemon with pepers and oignons, excellent for the soul, terrible for the stomac), well not yet anyways. Stomacs ok (i m sure parents are concerned), somehow... So far we find eating in lill local places and grabbing tea, cakes or nuts quite easy, and havent felt like streets were dangerous like guides seem to say. Well then again, walking around with a man who s fluent changes eeeeverything when you re a Gringa!
David (his real name is Nico but we thought it didnt quite suit him so we rebaptised him -he agreed-) has also made us discover a technique called Reiki that was taught to him by shamans here. It is a
relaxation technique based on flows of energy through the chakras as a mental and physical healing and meditative process. We were both quite impressed by it, even Emilie who was at first quite sceptical. We have also learred a lot on the indigenous spiritual values and practices, which are so rich.
In Lima we also visited a cathedral called San Fransisco: NOw this was funny because technically there is a guided tour through the church, Rubens paintings and catacombes buuuuut being French people, of a natural rebelliious nature, we just dropped the group and got lost as we wished. The catacombes, well I m not even sure that is an english word, but imagine low caves long under a church with about 75,000 skeletons -recently arranged in an artistic way, like circles with variations of skulls, then bones, in categories...yeah, you get the picture. Now, people who go around arraning bones to make it seem artistic really need to get a life. Emilie and I, not used to hanging around bones, found it quite heavy and gloomy at first. it being a cave for emilie, it looking like a crazy genocide for marion. but the natural humour of french
foolishness made it quite worth it. There was a GOOOORGEOUS library with about 25 000 old books, which we unfortunately never found.
We learned subtle peruvian interpretation of Spanish, like saying pucha miercoles instead of puta mierde... People are still making fun of us every time we speak, we re workin on it. Actually since we got in Ayacuhco where there are so few gringos, just looking at us is enough for them to crack up...
We dont have too much altitude sickness (yet) we re just a bit out of it, and look like old women when we walk up a hill... Here, to deal with it, they chew coka leaves. We had them in tea, which definitly helped. We ve discovered all the problems with coke agriculture here. It s legal of course, being a sacred herb with medicinal properties, but screwed up trade problems. Coka Cola for example, at first used coca leaves in its beverage, and kept a intellectual properties patent on it, which means it now sells it to medical firms to make coca derivatives and lots of profit, away from local people. One example out of many...
Anyways, Ayacucho is smaller ,beautiful,
and people have more typical ways of life away from tourism and gringo-dependency. We also met our boys in the orphenage, all so cute althou definitly a bit tough and full of energy. OUr house is really great, life as a community (12 people for two rooms and sharing cooking, cleaning shopping, etc) with a lot of strong women exploreres, italien, check, canadian, german, american, etc. YEAY! We love it all.
A suivre...
Las Gringitas
ps -thanks for all the comments, it warms up all our open chakras 😉 we ll put up more pix soon
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Hello Girls! I'm SOOoooo glad you sent me an email about your blog. What a cool cool trip for you to go on together. Everything is nonstop here, I have quit and changed jobs today for example. I will post more soon but if I do not, know I am still watching. Lots more pics please!! I love you both. Good luck and be safe! (Emilie especially you!!!!) -ta petite cheuse