Monday, February 1, 2010

This post will be less words and more pictures because the truck back to the beach is leaving earlier today than usual. Friday there was a birthday party for one of the women at the beach, piƱata and all. They played music from someones truck and danced all afternoon. Seeing the old people dance better and longer than I could ever dream of was a really beautiful thing.

With my appetite for dancing whetted, I headed to the discoteca in town saturday night. Amazing music and reasonably priced beer means the dancing goes all night. The disco provides a safe place for people to court each other and be more open physically than they normally would in public. It happens only on saturday night in Guadalupe and the release of a weeks worth of tension lends itself to a very outgoing atmosphere.

Among the many things that I´ve been losing on this trip is the memory card for the first camera, so there are less pictures than there should be. Most of these were taken from the back of a truck between La Barranca and Guadalupe.


Ever wonder where plastic bags come from? They grow on bushes here in Peru.


Garbage print camouflage.



Here you can see some of the ruins, with the verdant rice fields and beach down below.


You can see some of the ancient wall here. Not sure if its Incan or pre. The walls are still made in nearly the same way in La Barranca and much of Guadalupe.


Leaving La Barranca by truck, with a view of the lagoon and the beach.

One by one the houses are being refurbished and cleaned up as more and more families are moving in for February.



The house of the Ramirez family where I'm staying in La Barranca. You can see the cross on the hill in the background to the right.


The cross on the hill above La Barranca, marking some graves. The birds love to hang out on the updraft of the ocean breeze coming up the hillside.





Seahorse up on the hill. It was probably put there by someone but it still adds to the feeling that the coastal desert was once the sea floor.

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