Day: 361
All day we’ve been hearing rumors of a Good Friday, Jesus parade, but could never nail down the exact time. It supposedly started at 3pm, so we wandered our morning away, checking movie times for the evening shows after the supposed parade (during which time the city turns into a large mass). Then deciding to watch a movie, 10,000 BC, in spanish after the afternoon parade, we set off back to catch the 3pm going-ons.
Unfortunately we were lied to. After waiting until 3:30pm we asked someone what was going on and we were informed it was at 7pm-ish tonight. We ran off back to the movies and caught a 4:30pm showing, which, I believe I understood about 80% of the very poorly written dialogue.
We arrived back in the square just before 7pm and it seemed deserted, other than a few police who had blocked off a couple streets and a few candy vendors. After about 15 minutes of me taking pictures we asked one of the vendors what was going on…. Who then informed us it would be more like 10ish..
Not really trusting anyone, we decided to have dinner in one of the squares cafes and keep an eye out in case anything went down. It didn´t. By the time we got through eating, everything was still barren but we heard some singing off in the distance. We headed off to check it out and found thousands of people walking excessively slow and singing worship songs. We were pinned up next to the wall as 15 minutes of somber revelers wandered by.
Unable to backtrack through the crowd, we walked a block over, six blocks past them and arrived back in the main square 15 minutes before the slow moving group. We sat on a piss smelling ledge for a couple of minutes and decided we were bored and headed back to the hostel for a beer.
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Hey Everyone,
Felicia and I are getting on a bus tomorrow morning and will probably end up spending the next two days crossing the better part of Peru, so updates may be slow in coming.
-Rob
¿Donde esta Jesus?!?!?!?!
You guys didn’t look hard enough!