A fairly large village near Indiana, Peru \u00a0(Wikimedia Commons public domain photo)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\u00a0<\/p>\n
Our Monday morning expedition concluded with a bit of fishing.\u00a0 For pira\u00f1as (or piranhas).\u00a0 Now, given my notable success at attracting pira\u00f1as by means of my blog and my other writings, I figured that I would have no problem catching my quota here from a small boat in the Peruvian rainforest.\u00a0 Alas, though, online skills don\u2019t necessarily translate into real-world success.\u00a0 While a few caught (and released) very small pira\u00f1as, I didn\u2019t.\u00a0 I caught only a small catfish.\u00a0 A bottom feeder.\u00a0 Which, come to think of it, may not be altogether without its own symbolic significance.<\/p>\n
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On Monday afternoon, we got back onto a boat on the Amazon and went over to visit a village of the Yagua people \u2014 smaller, more primitive, and more remote than the one shown above.<\/p>\n
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It\u2019s apparently something of an artificial place now.\u00a0 They live nearby but not actually in the village that we visited, and they no longer dress the way we saw them dress, with the men in lengthy grass skirts and the women in red cloth skirts with partial grass tops.\u00a0 They put all this display on for tourists twice or three times a week.\u00a0 (Otherwise, they still hunt, farm, and fish for their subsistence.)<\/p>\n
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We were invited into the community hut, where they performed music for us and danced.\u00a0 It was pretty clear that the teenagers, especially the teenage girls, weren\u2019t really into the dances.\u00a0 Adolescents.\u00a0 I can imagine them thinking it tacky to put on the old costumes and perform for silly foreign tourists.\u00a0 I\u2019ve never been to the Peruvian Amazon before, but my wife has.\u00a0 She saw precisely the same display seven years ago, and thought then, too, that the teens would rather have been almost anywhere else than where they were.<\/p>\n
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We also saw a blowpipe or blowgun display, and several of us had the opportunity to blow darts at a wooden post that served as a target.\u00a0 I was surprised how well some of our number did.\u00a0 I hope that they don\u2019t get their hands on any curare<\/em>.<\/p>\n\u00a0<\/p>\n
We rode back at an absolutely gorgeous time in the early evening, with massive, beautiful clouds everywhere on the horizon above dark green forests and the serenity of the Amazon.\u00a0 We watched the sunset from the water before returning to our lodge just as it turned dark \u2013 and just as another torrential downpour began.\u00a0 It was the third or fourth serious torrent of the day.\u00a0 Each of them was timed perfectly for when we had finished a tour and were safely inside, perfectly dry.<\/p>\n
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Written in the Peruvian Amazon<\/p>\n
Posted from Cusco, Peru<\/p>\n
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