The fully butchered lamb, ready for the pachamanca, Quechua meaning "earth oven", an art handed down for generations.
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| For a full account of the trek, please visit Sacrificio de las Rodillas. | |
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View looking back from atop Yaucha Pass. |
| View of Caryl, Tito, and the burros reaching the top of Yaucha Pass. (Three pixels, bottom left.) | |
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Our first day at the Laguna Jahuacocha camp was bitter cold and rainy. We spent most of the afternoon huddled beneath our plastic pueblito de carpas. Finally, the clouds broke long enough for a heavenly, rich light to soak the valley. Cloaked by those clouds are towering glacier covered peaks. |
| This lamb would feed us for the next three days. Notice the stone cross in the background. | |
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The valley was rich with this strange fuzzy cactus, resembling cotton from afar, revealing hypodermic spines upon closer inspection. This one was in bloom. |
The fully butchered lamb, ready for the pachamanca, Quechua meaning "earth oven", an art handed down for generations. |
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Camp at Laguna Jahuacocha. Most of the lagunas where we made camp teemed with prize trout, Jahuacocha was no exception...and me without my pole...que pena. |
| Tito constructing the pachamanca.
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