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That night.

First of all, we went to an Internet shop (not cafe) and checked mails.  I was surprised to see lots of Internet shops in Tarma, and again in San Ramón.  But I was even more surprised to see some Internet shops here in Paucartambo as this is a tiny tiny village.  

At night in Peru, every town and village seems to have a big crowd of people outside.  It looks like all population come out of houses for fiesta.  There are stalls which sell food here and there.  Looking at the food and thinking “It looks nice”, we went to a restaurant.

The first restaurant we went into hadn’t prepared for food yet.

There was a restaurant with a signboard of octopus and fish in such a remote mountain village.  Wondering if it is safe to eat, we went into the restaurant.  They didn’t have anything including fish.

After all, we went into the same restaurant as we had lunch on the day.  This time they had proper menu.  We had chickin which was very tasty.  Satisfied, we went back to the hotel and slept in a sleeping bag. 

Some orchids grow like these on the cliff.

 Where we were.

Phragmipedium coudatum grows here.  It was a bit too late for flowers, which was a shame.

Lycaste sp. again.

Prostechea vespa.　

Oncidium sp. (?)

Bletia catenulata.  Very beautiful colour.

Prostechea sp. (vespa?) 

This is the orchid which was classified as Encyclia until quite recently and is now Protechea.  Probably this has been reclassified since, like Encyclia cochleata which is now Anacheilium cochleatum.

It is difficult for me to remember Latin names.  Having several names and/or being reclassified a few times make this even worse.

Gigantic Ida sp.  Unfortunately there were no flowers there.  If there have been flowers, it would have been marvellous. 

Lycaste sp.  Can you see the flowers?

I would like to know the name of this tree.