Chicha

I stayed in Chivay last weekend and this weekend I finally went to Arequipa. Since we got the go ahead with simply doing what we want last week and the week before Melanie asked me if I wanted to go to fiestas with her. A lot of times the little pueblos have fiestas ( usually because of a Saint) and they have dancing and they serve free beer and comida. Its quite excellent if you ask me. The problem is it is rude to not accept beer or food and after like 2 hours u feel really drunk.

They serve what they call chicha, it’s a humungo glass of fermented corn juice ( it ferments for a week). Yeah it sounds digusting. You know after you’ve vomited and you have that after taste in your mouth that makes you want to chew gum right away or brush your teeth. That’s what chicha taste like for me. The one we had was a little sweeter apparently. Still made me think of vomit.

The fiesta we went to was in Sibayo. Sibayo is so beautiful the whole village is made out of rocks. Itskinda hard to explain maybe these pics will help.