Saul and I took a taxi from our hotel in Tarma to the nursery in Palca.  S/10 (about £1.70) for about 10 km distance.

To my surprise, there was a pig on the wooden table in the nursery.  They were in the middle of slaughter.  Its head was already cut off and put on the other place.  Although I had lots of orchids which I wanted to draw/paint and also I was under pressure to do it, I couldn’t feel easy to do so when a pig which had just been slaughtered was in front of me.

“Have they started to chop firewood?” I wondered and put my head up.  It wasn’t a firewood but a head of the pig.

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On the way back to the hotel, we took a taxi called Colectivo.  As long as space is available the taxi driver takes more passengers who have signalled and takes them to the nearest possible place.  For the drivers, this will increase their income and for the passengers, this will help reduce the cost (the more passengers share the taxi, the less the fee becomes) as well as their waiting time. 

When Saul and I were at the backseat of a taxi, the taxi stopped for two girls who had raised their hands.   Oh, one of them may share the backseat with us, I thought, however, to my surprise the two girls came into a passenger’s seat. 

In this way, the taxi fee from Palca to Tarma became one third of the fee from Tarma to Palca, s/3.