Sunday, June 20, 2010

Pisac (Cusco, Pisac Archaeological Ruins) : 20/06 - 26/06:













Super Smoothie(The Mule remix): Recipe

2 bananas
1 50g packet Coca leaf/Carob/Maca flour
Leaves of 1 bunch fresh mint
3 raw eggs
milk
water
2 large yellow sapotes(lùcuma)
half ripe avocado
half-cup cooked rolled barley (or other rolled grains)
cocoa to taste


Blend rolled barley, mint and water together to ensure very smooth. Then blend in bananas and sapotes. Then the rest. Enjoy¡ I did, after getting up at 430am to get ready to climb to the Pisac ruins to watch the sunrise with local friends... but no-one was there for the 500 rendevouz! So after waiting a little I took off solo to the local shortcut route and smashed it up there in the morning chill. On the way up a scuffling gave away this little critter hiding in the rubbish bin. She was quite shy. It was lovely watching to sun push across the mountain ranges. I sat and chilled a little before writing a solstice blessing to all and leaving it under a rock cairn. On the descent I greeted mantra-chanting Sarah sitting on her little peak and Eroca legging it up also. I shared the above smoothie and delicious coffee made on strong coca tea (power!) with friends and neighbours and then was able to get my DJ mixes off my Ipod onto a sharable format USB. Thanks, Fernando!!

After ayahuasca, san pedro and Macchu Picchu life returned to normal for me in Pisac. A little too normal for my liking - I found myself at the bottom of the pool of inspiration for a while there. But as they say `get over it you depressed dole-bludging hippy`.

Highlights of the week included Jack´s cappuchinoes, a pleasant river walk and witnessing the local dump-site strategically positioned right on the river-bank for convenient leaching and plastic-bag dispersal. God knows we need more of those plastic-bag trees growing. More delicious pot-luck dinner to farewell Jeja to the jungle and holding space for some San Pedro-ing kids next door, which seemed to run fairly strong for them. Eroca and I also roasted up an alpaca haunch which despite turning out very tough was quite tasty. Visits to Cusco revealed an exposition of rather lame paintings but with a theme against the petroleum industry´s Government-lauded exploitation and destruction of the rainforest and it`s peoples.

PS Taxidermy & Cheese photo taken from a book on funny signs, but just too good to resist sharing!

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