Day 2 in Cajamarca. I thought the Banos del Inca would be like any other hot springs place I had been before - kind of like a huge hot tub and you just walk up and get in and soak until you're done. However, at the Inca Bathes, there are private rooms for each group. There's a big pipe that runs into the private room from the hot springs and it's mixed with as much cold water as you decide. We made ours super hot. We ended up realizing that since tons of people don't have hot water up here, it's where they come when they want a bath, which is why they're private. The water in the non-swimming pools was about 170 degrees. Somehow some things still manage to grow in there.
Carnaval Night Life - Interested in mostly making a bunch of sound, every little group had their own drum and just kept banging on it the whole night. Little mountain ladies walked around and sold homemade yellowish liquor in reused soda bottles. In one picture you can see this troll doll that had some weird stuff on it. It sort of looked like they were playing "operation." The morning we arrived in Cajamarca, there were still people out in the plaza drumming away. It was 6ish in the morning. It was pretty cool to see the fire/juggling act. Sad to say we didn't catch any picture of floats. The floats were really elaborate, creative and colorful sometimes stuffed in the back of a pickup truck.
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