Thursday, June 7, 2007
Peeing in Public
So today Jillian and I along with our guide went to Guiterro Cave, oldest evidence of man in south america was found there. After that we walked around Yungay, the town in Peru which was destroyed by an avalanche in 1970 caused by 7.8 earthquake. Most of the world never heard about it because it was just a little mountain town in Peru. The memorial gardens are beautiful. So we take a bus on the way home, not a normal bus more like a mini van with people crammed in it like sardines. It makes a stop to pick up people and I look out the window and the driver is peeing on the side of the road right next to the van. That would be indecent exposure in the states! No problem in Peru, everybody does it! There is no toilet paper in the public bathrooms! No toilet seats! It's a different world here. I'm addicted to caffine. Tried to go without it today and got a splittting headache. Drank a coke, bye bye headache!