Hey there world travelers. Hey there. For those of you that are new
here, I'm Tanya and I'm Dave and we're Turn It Up World. And, if you haven't
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and make sure it's highlighted to keep up with all of our travels. So, picking up
right where we left off after that gorgeous hike, and it was gorgeous,
we finally made it to our homestay in the mountains where we've been invited by
by this beautiful couple Wilmacarne and Nimeshiokespe. I can't
believe I said that right. Well, they're taking us into their home and showing us
what living like a local is all about. Well we're gonna show them what living
with Dave and Tanya is all about, starting with some good food because we
are hungry. Oh yeah, we're starving.
We made it. We made it. So we are now about to have tea time with the wonderful
family that's taking us in and then we're gonna show you our little, uh kind
of, hut for the night. Rustic, that's very rustic, very cool, we're gonna have some
tea time. It's kind of what they do. Ready for some tea time here in Huchuy Qosqo.
Wow, it smell's great.
Look at the setup. Wow, and it's where they're cooking that you see right over there. It's
just right on the stove. Yeah, right on the stove, natural wood fire underneath, now
what type of wood? Eucalyptus trees. Eucalyptus wood. And I'm hungry and excited to
really experience. Okay hey, so I'm gonna try this is sort of like a wonton here. Isn't
it incredible. Take a look at that look at that. Look at that wonton. It's super crispy and
guess there's a surprise inside. That surprise is queso. It has cheese in there
so I'm dying to take a bite of that and see what it's like. It looks really crunchy,
really good. Mmm, it's really nice, nice crunch, nice flavor.
The cheese really does help bring out some depth. You don't need any sauces,
usually with like wonton you need some sort of a dipping sauce, not at all it's
really crunchy, really crispy, super delicious, and yeah, light and flaky. Wow,
so we have some roasted maize here. It's still warm. It smells so good. A little salt.
This tastes really good. One more
thing on these. It's the Andean popcorn. It's like all the little, nice little burnt
nuggets you get at the bottom of the popcorn bowl. These are those nuggets.
These are those nuggets. Mmm, I love them too. I need more.
I can't stop. They're addictive, just like those nuggets. You can see right here, this is a
Muña leaf. It's almost like a very mint kind of flavor. You probably saw
some of this on the trail today. Then you just pour some hot water over that. It's
very relaxing, like an herbal tea. It's delicious.
Oh more, more popcorn. Yeah, more popcorn. Muchas gracias. Muchas gracias. It's super hot. It's still popping.
Still pop, pop. So good.
Hot. Sizzle, sizzle, sizzle. It's the best part of the popcorn.
Nice potato soup. Wow, that looks so good.
And, of course, vino. Peruvian wine, Peruvian wine, ok,
Peruvian vino. Es para mi from Ica. Thank you so much for having us in your
home. Thank you for the wonderful food you prepared. Salud. Salud.
Salud. Cheers. Muchas gracias. Muchas gracias.
Mmmm, very good. It's really tasty.
Oh my gosh, you know what? No, I'm kidding.
Let's just start right here. We got some of this nice broccoli and, keep in mind,
all of this is fresh from their farms. You have the fresh sweet corn, nice pork,
right here. This over here is sheep, which is nice and tender. You can see
that right there. You have chicken here, and they have
cheese, which is from the cows that they have here, the natural potatoes over here. You
got the nice cooked fava beans over here, and here you have the carrots and then
you have like the yuca potato on the side, which is really, really nice, and
tender, and of course wine and good company all go in hand. And, so the final
piece of this puzzle is this delicious dessert that they have here made from
passion fruit, cinnamon and they use a little sugar to caramelize it a little bit.
Let's try that. That is really good. It has the crunch from the passion fruit.
We had passion fruit a little bit earlier today, man it was really tart.
But this is really sweet, has a nice texture to it and a wonderful
dessert. Repita, Repita.
Tomorrow morning, the wake up time is this one. If it sound's like that, we're sleeping late.
Hey David, Tanya. Wake up time.
You got one too? Oh great, here we go.
You can do it. Here we go.
I can do this. You can do that one.
It's like the Vikings' horn.
Bravo. Bravo. Bravo.
Excuse me.
Say, excuse me. Perdóneme.
Voilà
Tonight, we have a special surprise. Cesar actually just informed us that there
is one of the most incredible constellation of stars that we're going
to see tonight. One being the Scorpion, the Milky Way, and the Southern Cross, the Llama, the Llama.
I'm excited about the Llama. Because we're at such a high altitude that there's no light pollution at all, so
you're just gonna have the most incredible star show, you know, I've
ever seen. So, I am about to get a little treatment on my left knee, which has been
a little bothering me after the finish of this hike. So the natural herbs, some of
the ones that we saw along the way, the Ch'era Ch'era and the kind of collagen
plant. They're gonna blend those two together to create like a paste to put
on my knee to help me relax and overnight maybe help my knee get a
little better, because we do have a long trek back down tomorrow and I just want to
make sure I am fully prepared for it. So, excited to see what this is about.
They're gonna put in some water. They're gonna boil it and then we'll see how it
goes from there. Wow, really getting into the native experience. Okay, so while
I'm getting some natural healing here, let me just quickly explain to you
what's going on. So keep in mind the Incas had a deeply sophisticated
understanding of the medicinal properties of herbs and plants and we
actually learned that Cesar's grandfather was a shaman who taught
Cesar all the ways of understanding the herbs and the plants and their uses.
So, by combining these two plants, Ch'era Ch'era
and collagen. Then boiling them in hot water releasing those medicinal
properties then massaging that on to the infected areas, which in this case was my
knee, that it would help take the swelling down and help my knee get better so it
was kind of like a natural Icy Hot, but it also served as a way to prevent
infection in case you had like an open wound or a cut. Pretty cool, right. So, at
this point, I'm not sure if I was fully on board that this natural remedy was
gonna help me, but hey since I didn't have any Icy Hot on hand, I just went
with it. So, here we are
It's nice and warm.
It feels really good. That's nice.
So, by the time we got back to our hut, we were so tired and I had a migraine
headache from hell, which was most likely because of the high altitude, well
we went right to bed because we had to get up very early. We had to get back and
down this mountain and we had to catch our train to Aguas Calientes. Oh my God.
Oh and, by the way, my knee actually started to feeling a little bit better.
Dang, who knew natural medicines really do work. Hmm, I guess the Incas did. Anyway,
good night y'all. See you in the morning.
Oh wow, it has like a foot plant. Wow.
You go kind of in like this?
Wow, look at, look at, he's hired take him to the farms, he'll work with you. I love the
tradition of how they make the houses with these blocks here very,
this is the piece, the tool, right here that gives you this right here. And, then you kind of put brick by, it's like kind
of a clay brick, or dirt brick. And, they put it in and they stomp it, mash it in, they leave it in
there until it ferments and they take it off and then basically they allow the
Sun to do the rest of the work, which will harden it on each side, kind of rotating it
Oh, it's heavy. It's heavy. Oh my gosh. Wow.
Ok, that's it for me.
But then, the process turns into that, right, it's incredible. Exactly, I actually see some of the hay bits right
in the wall.
Really quick, something we noticed in our little hut here, that the
bed, and I made the bed this morning, but the bed is actually made of mud.
Check that out.
It's got like the wood and mud, kind of slapped on top, but it's really cool
and I love how the symbols kind of go all around here, almost like you know
wallpaper'ish. And one quick little fun fact, or maybe not so fun fact. So as we were
going to bed our host gave us this bucket, and it gets really dark and cold here at
night. There's not a lot of lights around and so this wasn't, of course
there's no bathroom in the room. There's a bathroom if you go outside and around. It's
actually a pretty decent bathroom with running water and all.
It's dark. But our host said, if you don't want to go out to the bathroom, just use the
bucket. So I can tell you, well we didn't use the bucket. No, no we made our way, with a
little head lamp, over to the bathroom but, if you don't wanna go out, you
got the bucket. You got the bucket, and that is one tiny bucket, so that wouldn't fit
me at all. I couldn't pee in that bucket. Here it is. She's cute. It almost reminds me of you, twin.
Thank you so much for having us. Si, gracias. Yeah, until next time.
So great, so great.
I know, I know, so great, great smiles.