Hello Everyone! This is Mina and Owen reporting from Lima, Peru: our last stop before Piglet goes home and Dungbeetle stays on for more adventures in Bolivia, Chile and possibly Argentina. I´ll try to briefly recap my (Mina´s) trip, but for more pictures you can go to www.hosomio.blogspot.com because i don´t want to be repetitive. Chao!
By the way, the pictures aren´t uploading for the millionth time, so i´ll have to add them when I get home, along with more text. sorry, Mina.





My extended stay in Lima turned out to be a godsend, I got to hang out at the beach, take a tour of the city, and hang out with a really cool Colombian family. This is a picture I took on the tour at a place called Lover´s Lookout or something like that. I couldn´t quite capture how pretty the scenery was and I don´t know who that man is, otherwise I like the shot.



When I arrived the next morning in Ayacucho, expecting to see an eager Owen standing at the gates, I was mildy disappointed. Apparently Owen thought I would be coming in half an hour later than I was, so I spent some time taking pictures. This is a picture from the top level of the airport looking out on the runway. Once I started getting a little nervous I called Lorena (Owen´s coordinator person) and she and Owen coincidentally showed up at the same time, Owen by bus and Lorena by taxi. It was a happy reuinion and we all rode back to la casa together. See next picture for a happy reunion between Dungbeetle and I.



The day I got to Ayacucho was the biggest day for the Santa Semana celebrations. AFter the bullrun during the day we napped to save up energy for the nighttime festivities. Around ten o´clock we went out to the Plaza DÁrmas to see some fireworks. I´ve never seen anything like these fireworks. I was sure something was going to catch on fire because they had these huge structures that looked like they were made out of wood, and the firework were attached to the structures. I don´t know how they did it, but it looked really cool. THis is Owen attempting to get a good picture of the fiery structures, but you´ll have to use some imagination.