shamanic reconstruction, chan chan museum
the pier’s seen better days. also, the “picturesque” toratora boats people still use are, on closer inspection, just styrofoam wrapped in sandbags sewn into a toratora shell. not to be a stickler, but the tourist video on the fancy bus lied to me.
the highlight was the abandoned railroad-pier, though, where goods were unloaded straight from the boat to a railroad track run 2 or 3 km out into the sea. it was also, coincidentally, the site of the first landing of japanese immigrants to p-ú.
lima pride 2008 shared a park with, of all things, a “feria agropecuaria” (country fair).
andahuaylas marketday: basua/masua potatoes are AWESOME looking
andahuaylas: seriously untouristic destination
fierce inkan corporate sponsorship
penetration scene
crazy inti raymi floats
mummytime!
creepy whitefacedudes (pachuchis?) abounded that day… me among them (the baffled faces of locals were totally priceless, well worth the s./10 one of those masks costed!)
how has this becomes the official pose of the trip? shutterdelay serendipity, that’s how.


