Shake, shake, left, fake pour out. Shake shake right, fake pour out, with quechua calls in betwixt. And it went on for some time. For Pachamama, mother earth, Gaya, our protector, our friend, our goe, our past, our present our future. She was the great diety which looms over this Andean land. The spirit that resides in the mountains, the huts, the potatoes, the springs, the rocks, and most importantly the people. The people like out porter who shook and sang as he showed us the sacrificial shuffle performed with canyeso. And i felt good that night as our porter pranced and the canyeso pulsed in my veins. I should have been drinking this night. After a day of short hikes, two hot springs, and dust filled rides herded 40 deep in the back of a
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