After enjoying the Market near Tarma, we visited Huasahuasi again and the last time. This time the taxi fare was s/70. Roughly around £12.

While we were heading to the destination, an old (?) indian woman walking ahead raised her hand. She seemed to raise her hand as she heard the car coming. If she was lucky, the car would be a collectivo, so that she could save her energy and time.

We were only two of us, Saul and I, with Cesár driving a car. We decided to pick her up. She came into the backseat, next to me. At first she looked at me from curiosity. When I notice it and looked at her, she hurriedly looked ahead. This repeated several times and in the end she seemed to lose interest and only looked ahead.

This road was steeper than the road to the village, and she was in the car for quite a while. It means that she was walking up the steep road, with intention to walk up that long distance. I was amazed to see the woman’s physical and mental strength as well as their hard life.

After she left, we, too, stopped. It was a beautiful day in Tarma, however, here, 3000 metres (9843f) in the cloud forest, it was fogged in.  These pretty white flowers were there.