Huancas
Huanca Urco is a canyon five minutes from the town of Huancas, itself only 20 minutes from Chachapoyas. The canyon has a direct drop 2000 meters deep.
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Me on the edge; a very windy day! |
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Waiting for the car to take us to Huancas with my fellow teachers, Lora, Charlie, and Robby |
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Robby dancing with the local women who were feeling the effects of drinking "Chicha" |
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It had started to drizzle so we decided to have lunch before hiking to the canyon overlook; we were waiting for our Cecina=fried pork. The local ladies wanted to get in the picture! |
Trip to Leymebamba
The village houses a famous museum and is 93 miles south of Chachapoyas (3 hours 30 minutes by car) and from Leymebamba it's a 10 km walk to the museum. The modern museum features mummies and objects found at the Lake of the Condors, as well as textiles, ceramics.weapons and Sarcofagi found in the area. I took a bus from Chachapoyas at 6AM with Celine, on of my fellow teachers and her friend. It was a very scenic trip through little villages along the way.
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Me with the village below |
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On our way back down to the village from the museum |
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Sarcofagas at the museum |
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Recreation of the cliff dwellings at Revash(I didn't get there,unfortunately) |
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Mummies as seen through a glass window; some wrapped and some unwrapped |
We caught the bus back to Chachapoyas at the main square in Leymebamba and settled in for our 3+ hour trip on the bus. Celine and her friend sat in the last 2 seater and I found a seat behind them at the very back of the bus. As soon as all the seats were taken, and everyone's things were stored, we were off! A few minutes on the road I heard a noise that sounded like "cluck, cluck, cluck"...I could swear it was chicken! After looking on the floor, the aisle, and the racks above the seats storing personal belongings, I saw the maker of the noise: it was,indeed a chicken and it was tied to a backpack! Just right there on the rack! 1/2 an hour later or so, the bus stopped, a man jumped up and grabbed the chicken and backpack and ran off the bus and up a little hill on the side of the road and gave the chicken to a woman sitting there. Then he ran back down the hill and jumped back on the bus! It was a quiet and peaceful ride back from then on!