After another freezing night actually the sun did come out today and it wasn´t so bad. We managed to get to the central market which was more like I imagined Peru to be. It was crazy and we saw no other westerners but surprisingly we weren´t hassled, lots to see and smell and experience. The most distressing sight was a very old lady begging, with her husband who was bigger than her strapped to her back, she was somehow managing to walk around.. after the initial shock the girls then couldn´t understand why I couldn't buy some sort of baby sling attached to my back and front for them to be carried around in!
I did think that people would speak english but virtually no one does, we are just about managing to get ourselves understood, although the Bolivian taxi driver that just brought us back could not stop laughing when Jodie said we were vegetarians and ate no meat, fish or chicken, unfortunately the word for chicken is very similar to penis! Jodie also managed to order a large portion of small girls!
It has been a bit strange where we have been staying, Percy our host , firstly brought round his girl friend to meet us, during the night she went and at 5am the following morning his estranged wife and son arrived, then last night during the night Percy and his son left and during the night another woman arrived, it has been a case of musical beds!
In a couple of hours we will be getting the overnight bus to Trujillo and then the next part of our adventure will begin, we have emailed the orphanage to say we will be arriving at 7am but heard nothing from them, so lets hope they will let us in!
omg! am speechless (literally) xxxx
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