Day 10: Thursday, July 8, 2010
Life at the base can be quite hectic when a team stays.
Today we went to several “touristy” places. We rode a motorcar to Nanay where we got in Osmar’s brother’s peki-peki (which is basically an large canoe with a motor on the rear). On the boat we traveled from the Nanay River into the Amazon. Then we stopped at two different villages where the people perform ancestral reenactments (they were dressed with straw skirts and sometimes tops as they danced around the hut). It was…interesting to say the least. While we were at one village, they let us take a shot at using a blow dart gun and got to hold a monkey. Lastly we stopped at a zoo of sorts (cages built up in case of flooding, we actually walked from cage to cage and went inside to hold or take pictures of the animals). This was my favorite part of the tour because we got to see a sloth, monkeys, anacondas, jungle rat, “prehistoric turtles”, parrots, and cayman (crocodile).
After lunch, Lea and I went out on our own. We first went to the Radio Shack on Prospero (we actually stopped to get some ice cream, but shh..it’s a secret because we had some after dinner too). After purchasing some ear phones, we went to “TopiTopi” a clothing store that played English music (Maroon 5, actually). Then we went to the grocery store where I purchased coke zero (YAY!!!), chips a hoy cookies, and other snacks. A 16 oz bottled coke product cost S./1.70 (soles), which is approximately equivalent to $0.60. I was quite excited. Lea and I had a good time hanging out. We only have tomorrow before I leave for the River again with the Chicago team. I think I will miss her and her German accent and the random English words she uses out of context like “ironically”. Haha!
We enjoyed hamburgers (seemingly mediocre back home) at the base but it felt like a real treat since we’d been talking about it since the Fourth of July. Then we went to the Plaza de Armas for ice cream and souvenir shopping.
It’s been quite a successful “back from the jungle” day.
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