Tuesday, August 5, 2008

Chuño y Llamas

So I've added a couple of new blogs and added pictures to some older ones, so don't miss them. I'm at fast wireless internet! Who knew this existed in Bolivia? Well it exists in a few far between places, but twice a year to surf like a wild child is pretty good enough for me.
Two images that ARE Bolivia to me, I could probably pick 100 pictures that are Bolivia to me, but I wanted to share and they didn't fit in my blog entry writing..so they get their own entry. First is Chuño, that frozen-dried-stomped on by feet potato. This is after some stomping and in the process of drying while freezing over night for a week or so...in my patio. I helped hand-peel the rest of the skins off, it was like peeling dried fall leaves from a pile of rocks (or so I imagined in my head).

These are a herd of llamas which we thought were so incredibly curious of us that they were coming to visit us, that is until we started listening to our friend Anna yelling "They are being herded this way!" A small inside joke for us.

2 comments:

McKinley Ann said...

It's lunch time, I didn't bring food today and those hard potatoes are looking mighty good! Going to pass on the llama meat though.

Bree said...

mmm....interesting potatoes. nothing a little mustard couldn't cure.