Peenie Wallie: Reserva Nacional de Paracas

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November 08, 2007

Reserva Nacional de Paracas

Here's a photo of me and my two guides stuck in my rented Suzuki 4z4 in the Paracas National Park. I woke up this morning in the Urubamba valley, then watched a local parade of sorts. Not sure what they were celebrating, but they seemed to be very sincere. The local population, largely descendants of the Incans, were drinking something from a barrel in the middle of the street. So, of course, I tossed my beer into the gutter and asked them to fill it up for me. Turns out it is a drink they make called Chicha. Not sure how they make it, but it is somehow connected with the long wooded poles with a red bag on the end that I see every hundred yards or so. It tastes...welll...about what you'd expect something to taste that ferments on a stick in a red bag at the end of a pole in a third world country if you served it out of a barrel in the middle of the street.

I almost screwed up though because I started to taste it without pouring some on the ground first. Big no-no with the indians. First, you pour out a little sip on the ground for "pachamama" (mother earth). God I love this country.

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