Day 23

The morning started a bit strange. We woke up because our phones got an alert message. You know, like the ones we get every first monday of the month at 12 o clock. Except it ws not monday 12 o clock... the message was only in spanish, and alerted us for a rising river and possible land slides, because of heavy rain. Nina was at full alert, and eike just wanted hiking. We packed our bags just in case, and our host was checking out the river with his drone. And lazer he went to look in real life. The river is quite a bit down, and there are a few walls build exactly for the purpose of slowing the river down if it comes to an overflooding. We decided to walk to the village to see what was going on. But life went on like normal. So we walked around and went shopping 😂 nina bought a nice zipper, and eike a really nice poncho. We walked around for the whole day. Ollantaytambo is a really nice town, build on nazca ruins. The streeta are small and have walls out of rocks. Some are really really big and they don't know how they got them into place. Around 16:00 we decided to walk to our 'hotel', but bumped into a guy we bumped into when we walked into town in the morning. This time he was quite drunk though 🤭 we had a small talk and went on. 2 minutes later we decided to turn around and get a beer at the kiosk too. It was the start of a crazy evening 🤭
We drank some beers with the drunk guy, Ernesto, and his cousin, Jesus, who had his 30th birthday today. It was a lot of fun, and at some point a group of about 5 kids came and all hugged ernesto (family), and the put out their hands because they wanted him to get them candy. He did not give in, but Eike did! 🤣 the kids were very happy and Ernesto wanted them to say thank you, so they all said in choir "THANK YOU!" And then they left. Jesus also left for 2 minutes he said, but was not back 30 minutes later, and ernesto invited us to his house. His house is not finished yet, but it is a big building that towers over the rest of the houses. It is a gift from his mom, to see the stars and the mountains around the valley. Ernesto said that he ofcourse is happy with the house, but his mother is a bit more posh than he is 😅 the house is not finished yet and is still in the building phase, but the rooftop view was amazing! Ernesto got us some really disgusting sekt and we drank it on the roof. Jesus came back and joined us, and then we went down, back into town. Ernesto was waaaay too drunk now to be able to do anything, but he found his way to his moms house 🤭 me and eike thought at first that he just walked into someones house and dropped in their bed, but that was not the case. We said hello to his mom and went further with jesus. The town goes to sleep at 20:00, but Jesus took us to a room with one big table and chairs all around the walls. There were a lot of local people sitting there with giant glasses with some kind of drink. When we went in it was suddenly all quiet, but after a few minutes it was ok. Eike started talking with some old men, and quickly the ice was broken. We also got a giant glass (1 liter) of what the others were drinking. It was fermented choclo, the kind of mais we ate yesterday. We also got offered a shot of some sugar cane schnapps. After we finished our giant drinks nina, eike, jesus, and one of the old men went to another place. They had a fire inside. It was also nice and we drank a beer there too. Then we went home.Leggi altro