9 May, 2009 - Meandering home

April 28. About long busrides.

The busride from Lima to the Ecuadorian border is very long.
I get up early and say goodbye to the friendly people at my hostel. "Goodbye!" or rather, I told them "Adios!" because, of course, they speak Spanish here. What follows is a long ride through the city of Lima, ending in a bus terminal ...

9 May, 2009

Bob Dylan, busride, Cumbles, Lima

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April 27. The only one that uses real bodies.

Woke up late. Bought a nutritious breakfast in a supermarket and walked around the center of Lima. Most of the streets were in reconstruction; smog and dust everywhere. One interesting thing about this city is that workshops of certain professions are located in the same area. I live in the printing press area were professional ...

9 May, 2009

horror, Lima, Miraflores, phobia

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April 26. Oil painting in Lima.

In the late afternoon our bus arrives in Lima, Peru's busy capital and center of Spanish colonial influence. This is the Rome of South America; there are churches everywhere. A taxi takes us away from the bus terminal and at their hostel I say goodbye to Candy and Alexandra. This city should be extremely dangerous, ...

9 May, 2009

Lima, Oil painting

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April 25. Hypocrisy and Santiago Mataindios.

Up 10am. Check out. Breakfast: real espresso I showed the girl from the hostel how to make it and a sandwich with a fried egg. Read bilingual Gideon bible I found in the hostel to improve my Spanish and have a glance at Jesus' words once again. After all, they are the weightiest words in ...

9 May, 2009

Cusco, Hypocrisy, Incas, Lima, Mataindios, Qoricancha, Quechua, Tambomachay

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April 24. Cusco Sewing.

Cusco. Arrived here at six in the morning, went to a hostel with a German woman called Alexandra. We had breakfast in the central Mercado, coffee and an egg sandwich. Bought our busticket to Lima, walked around the Plaza de Armas until about nine.
After that I lied down for a couple of hours to ...

9 May, 2009

Cusco, Machu Picchu, sew

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April 23. Lake Titicaca.

The legs are okay again. I can move on today. I want to describe the begging women in the bus station. Her dark skin, how she crouches and moves her hand up and down to indicate what she's after: a few Bolivianos. The colorfully woven pouch on her back, the noises she makes, her small ...

9 May, 2009

Arequipa, Copacabana, Isla del Sol, La Paz, Puno, Titicaca

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April 22. La Paz.

La Paz. It is cold indeed and the bus driver halts for me so I can take my jacket out of the luggage compartment. The old orange one that has served in Russia earlier on the road. The arrival in La Paz is spectacular and comfortable. A modern bus terminal right in the center, plenty ...

9 May, 2009

La Paz, lonely planet, pain, religion

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April 21. The road ahead.

Today, we copy the photos of the Paraba Azul to a cd at Alberto's place. He offers us lunch and has some story about the integration of foreigners into the community, which can be hard at times. After this it's time to say goodbye to Buenavista. I leave with dear memories of the people here ...

9 May, 2009

Buenavista, paraba azul, photos, road ahead

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April 20. Lazy day.

Lazy day, I skip the excursion to Cafetal where the nine-step process of coffee production is explained. Washing the beans, sorting them, peeling them, sorting the big ones out for richer coffees, fermenting, drying, roasting, grinding. It's an interesting science. So, if you're in the area, put Cafetal on your list.

I meet Alberto ...

9 May, 2009

Buenavista, cafetal, power, writer

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April 19. Theater.

Sunday, lazy sunday. Sometimes, you have to turn the hide of your experiences inside out in order to aerate it. In the process, you can study the pigments that have been formed over the years by the exposure to the world. Red spots, shiny freckles, tiny oily canals of capillaries carrying heavy blood to wide ...

9 May, 2009

experience, Jerry, Snoopy, Theater, Theatre, Tom

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