In my spanish lesson yesterday my teachers took me and another volunteer out into the city to go look at a museum and some churches. It was nice to get away from the 4 hour solid classroom work that we do every other day. In the museum there three mummies which were super creepy. The Incan tradition, similar to that of the Egyptians, was to bury people with all their belongings so that they had a good afterlife. But interestingly the way they buried people here was to put them in the fetal position so they´re all curled up and I kept feeling like they were going to jump out at me any minute! It´s weird because all the mummies still have some skin and hair and perfectly preserved fingernails. It´s weird!!
Last night the guy who owns the hostel which acts as our base invited us all over to make this Peruvian cocktail which has Pisco, lime juice, sugar syrup and lemonade in it. It was really nice...can´t remember the name though!
And then today he took us on this sort of walking tour of the city and to eat some traditional Peruvian dishes. Walking about the city was really interesting. We went into all these little places called "tumbos" which are basically where the old city boundaries used to be. You go through this tiny door that looks like nothing from the street and down these steps into a gorgeous courtyard where you can´t hear the city at all. Apparently when people used to come and visit the city they would stay in the downstairs parts of these houses and the family would live upstairs at street level. It was really cool.
This weekend I think we´re going to the beach to soak up some sun. Should be good!
X
Subscribe to:
Post Comments (Atom)
No comments:
Post a Comment