And sweet alpaca-wear there was! Got myself an amazingly soft sweater and a beautiful blanket for just $20 and a little bit of haggling. The market in Sasquisili was AMAZING! It's a tiny little town with next to nothing there, but every Thursday morning, people flock there from all over to buy their grains, veggies, shoes, pots & pans and just about anything else they could ever need. There are not a whole lot of tourists at this time of year, so the two blonde girls get quite a lot of looks (some good and some not-so-good) trekking around with giant backpacks.
The traffic here is absoultely insane! Yield, merge, signal. . . rules of the North American road clearly do not apply. And just when I thought I'd seen it all, I spot a barefoot woman with a baby riding on the back of a motorcycle in the midst of the chaos. Helmets? What are those?
Even with our newly acquired alpaca-wear, we've had about enough of the high altitude chills. Tomorrow we're flying to Medellin (yes, that's in Colombia. . . ) and heading to Cartagena in search of some Caribbean sunshine. Don't worry, we've done a lot of reading and conversing about Colombia and the northern part is totally safe - thanks to Pablo, it just got a bad rep. If anything, it sounds like Colombians are trying to prove their reputation wrong by making it even more safe than most places in South America.
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