I took my parents on a paseo (fieldtrip) to the closest neighboring town, Jangala, to visit some Incan Ruins called Ventanillas. Basically they are large holes cut into stone walls that they used for burial sites. The holes aren't actually big enough to fit a whole body so its believed that only parts of the body were burried there. For example, if someone died that was a writer - they'd bury his hands in the ventanilla, if someone who died was a good athlete, they might bury his feet. Who knows if thats true not.
Jangala is about a 10 minute car ride away. To get there is waaaay downhill but then waaaay up hill so we took a car there and decided to walk home. On the way back I learned that my mom is deathly afraid of sheep. Wild dogs, I can understand... but sheep? Every time we walked by one (which out here is about every 2 minutes) she'd get all scared and run away real fast.
I decided to take my parents home via the shortcut - which may or may not have been such a good idea. Its about half the distance but the uphill is straight up a rocky hill. I figured if the campesinos can do it with no shoes and babys on their backs it shouldn't be a problem for my parents. Well, i was wrong. I'm sure it was a lot harder because of the altitude making it difficult to breathe but none the less - here's a great foto of the start of the climb. In the end I had to send Neisser running off to grab some bottled water for them. He did the sprint with out a problem -but then again - he's peruvian.
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