Saturday, November 22, 2008

Goodbye Tarapoto

Leaving my place, saying goodbye
Last 24 hours in Lima, eccentric hotel, a burning day at the beach
smooth arrival in Sao Paulo

Sunday, November 9, 2008

Waterfalls of Ayuashyacu

After a last minute change of plan (I was supposed to the village of San Roque for two days), I went with Sebastian to the Waterfalls with a tour agency. Actually he was the only one in the tour, so getting a ticket as well when showing up this morning was not really difficult. A driver, a guide and the two of us embarked on a Combi for a 30 min drive to the waterfalls. The location is great and beautiful. Since today in Sunday it was full of groups and families, the waterfall area specially was very crowded. It was actually nice to bath and swim and get out of town. Some pictures soon

Saturday, November 8, 2008

Que Calor

After rainy days in the beginning of the week, it has now been three days that the sky is blue and the sun really hot, yersteday it reached 40°, the sun really burns, even at 7 am. I spend most of the day in the shadow and start going out at nights. I am getting more and more busy, started to take some spanish lessons as well and I just made three fascinating interviews for my research project. This morning (people here do work on saturday morning, legal week is 45h), we had a journal club with the head of research about trace amines, new receptors discoveries and endogenous psychedelics such as DMT, very inspiring.

This afternoon will be dedicating to bibliography reading and tomorrow i leave for one day in a small village with waterfall ;-)

Bye for now

Alex

Tuesday, November 4, 2008

Kundalini Yoga and Great Breakfast



I had been looking for Yoga lessons in Tarapoto during the last two weeks and actually, Marianna happens to be a Kundalini Yoga teacher for children, so this morning she gave a lesson to me along with two other people, in the beautiful setting of los huingos, from 7 to 9 am. That was not easy for my body appreciated. After we prepared a great breakfast, cooking chapati bread, filled with various vegetables salads as well as a delicious organic peanut butter. Everything (lesson + breakfast) was so nice that we are going to do it again tomorrow :-)



Monday, November 3, 2008