About two hours and two and a half hours away respectively via car lie the pueblos Culpina and Incahuasi(meaning Inca House). How can you tell if you are in an isolated territory? Well it is quite easy thing if you are over 6 feet tall and are a Kiwi because all the school children will stare at you as if you were an alien which is to be expected because in a sense I was and may have been the first Kiwi and perhaps the tallest person they have ever seen.
Both of these pueblos are at such an altitude that during the night it gets very cold, in the morning there is a little bit of frost and the roofs drip with water as the frozen moisture melts in the warmth of the morning sun. During the day the weather is amazing with beautiful blue skies, although there can be quite a difference in temperature depending on whether you are in the sun light or in the shade or if there is a cool breeze blowing. Nearing the end of our first day preaching in Incahuasi we were treated to a beautiful vista of the full moon rising and then as you would expect a beautiful night sky without much light pollution. The southern cross can be seen clearly in this part of the world also.
The people here live quite hard lives usually working in the fields even the fact that they live at a high altitude lessons there life expectancy. Most of the people would listen as we shared a bible text or two and even take some further information to read. Yet we also found that many especially the women couldn't read, either because the eye sight was failing them or they were illiterate. Many though had an appreciation for what the bible has to say in which case we would leave them with something that there children or spouse could read to them.
One of the things that I quite like about South America and especially in the pueblos is that each building and house although perhaps built in a similar fasion or the same materials is unique. Every wall is a fingerprint with no two walls being the same.
The last three days were very enjoyable.
I found you can fit a lot of people in a what is usually a 8 seater.
Preaching to people who had an appreciation for the bible.
Working along with a crew of 7 other including a couple of special pioneers.
Experiencing new food (soup with chicken feet and other interesting parts which I cant describe)
Learning to play Cacho a game that uses 5 dice.
Listening to local legends about the Inca mummy beneath the church, which sounds nearly authentic when told by a local in there small mud brick adobe kitchen.
Enjoying the hospitality of a the faithful sister who is the only in Witness in Incahuasi along with her family.
Good times
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