You really mean "rats"??
Trip Start
Aug 07, 2009
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Trip End
Aug 24, 2009
Conay, Ancash, Peru
Tuesday, August 11, 2009
Got to Caraz and met the driver that will take us to Conay (a couple of kilometers further from the official start at Cashapampa). Turns out Manuel and Marlene his wife are in town, he is in a PTA meeting and she is doing the grocery shopping for the whole time Manuel will be with us in the trek. Had to wait at least 1 hour, and we met the Peruvian Anthony Hopkins. He kept telling some silly drunken stories, and kept us entertained while waiting.
Finally we were ready to go. The poor arriero even bought a bed to welcome us to his place. They are just building this adobe house, kitchen, dining room, 4 bedrooms and no bathroom! Not even an outhouse. Just fend for yourself wherever you can. Poor but very well behaved, we met 3 of the 4 kids, all of them very nice.
Time to go to sleep and there was no time to put the bed together, so they just made the dirt floor of the guests bedroom a bit flatter, extended a tarp and the twin mattress on top. Manuel filled one hole on the wall, and not sure if there were any others, asked us if we would be afraid of RATS!!!! Yickes! Just to make it better, the room had a very strong moldy smell, imagine a forgotten crawl space.
Lali slept pretty good, and I kept waking up expecting long tailed visitors; luckily no one came that night, our stuff and ears were not chewed J
