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Subject: [OM] little house in the mountains
From: "Wayne Culberson" <waynecul@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Mon, 24 Apr 2006 09:00:14 -0300
This is a little house, in a small village in the Andes mts. of Bolivia, 
that we stayed in one night last month.
http://pastway.smugmug.com/gallery/1376066/1/66020216

The door on the left led into the kitchen, and the door on the right led to 
this room where we slept on grass they had spread on the sloping floor. As 
always in these villages, the people insisted on giving us food. Some of the 
people gathered in curiousity to watch us as we spread out our sleeping bags 
for the night.
http://pastway.smugmug.com/gallery/1376066/1/66021184

This is the view up into the rafters. I just thought it was interesting 
construction. It didn't look like the cord they used to bind the rafters 
together came from the local hardware. A small colorful bird jumping around 
the rafters also obviously called this place home, and wasn't about to let 
us intruders drive him out, but I couldn't catch him in a picture.
http://pastway.smugmug.com/gallery/1376066/1/66020218


The road to the village was quite bad, and we got stuck a few times trying 
to get there in the darkness the previous evening. The people had been 
notified we were coming for a visit, to show a film, and to give out radios 
and other things to them. So in anticpation of our visit, the whole town had 
apparently gone out to do road work, hoping we would be able to make it 
through. When I heard this the next morning, I asked them "How long has it 
been since anyone from outside your own people has visited your village 
before?" Their immediate answer was, "Never".

We gave some clothing to the children.
http://pastway.smugmug.com/gallery/1376066/1/66026767

A mother and her daughter.
http://pastway.smugmug.com/gallery/1376066/1/66026770

Wayne 


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