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I had to come back to meet my sister and renew my visa. She is visiting for a month.

Lima is not a very pretty city and it is very difficult to breathe as a result of the air polution. It is about as big as Johannesburg. I think of Lima as the ugly city with the pretty flowers. Everywhere you go there are gardens with beautiful flowers despite the fact that the coastal areas in Peru are almost desertlike. The sky is permanently gray and the water of the pacific is to cold to swim in. Regardless, the ocean remains a thing of beauty.

On the 30th at about 23h00 we went out to watch a celebration of the day of the dead or the day of song, which is the 31st (halloween). We watched about 30 people playing the peruvian box (which is a wooden box instrument played like the jembe drums of Africa). It was amazing. While they were playing some dancers in devil costumes performed the devil dance. It was very colourful and quite spectacular. There is a restaurant in Lima where these dances are performed on certain nights of the week and before my return to South Africa I will definately visit and take some pictures.

I also met up with Angel and Douglas, which were in Lima for about three weeks. It was nice to see them again. I also visited Flora, the only sister of the seven brothers and the mother of Angel. After a babtism with water, she gave me a second shipibo name and became my godmother. That, in shipibo culture, makes Angel officially my brother and his siter, Elizabeth, my sister. Between them they have three children and I am officially their aunt. My second shipibo name is Metsa Kate, which means sitting in beauty. 

We also met up with some friends of Paola, my friend in Lima, to celebrate a birthday. There were 11 women and they have been together at school since they were four years old. Very nice.

My sister arrived in Lima on 2 November 2006 after a gruelling trip and a 14 hour stop over in Sao Paolo (the most dreadful city in the world).

We left for Cusco the same day. 

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