Loca Lunahuana

Sunday was a day trip to Lunahuana. It's a touristic city southeast of Lima. They have all sorts of adventure sports there including zipling,four wheeling, and whitewater rafting. When we arrived in Lunahuana we got off the bus and started our city tour. Our first stop was a famous haunted house called La Casa Encantada. One of the ghost stories from this house is that a couple driving up to the river saw a party happening at the house and then went in to check it out. When they walked in though everything went dark and tere was no one there they ran out screaming during which the girl tripped on a rock and died from hitting her head. There are also other stories about the floors moving like waves and this it because supposedly this house was built over a Chilean burial ground.

Our next stop was a beekeeper's store where we got to taste test 4 different types of delicious honey. The four types were clover or normal, avocado, grape, and eucalyptus. These are made by the bees pollinating these different flowers as then collecting the honey at different times of the year. My favorite was the avocado honey.  Our last stop on the Our of the city was at Vina del Reyes which was a vineyard that made it's own wine.  Like the pisco restaurant they showed us how they make the wine and it was a little different because it wasn't as natural and a little more modernized but it was still very interesting. After te small tour we got to taste test the wines. In fortunately I don't like wine so I gave mine to my professor.

Then it was finally time to go rafting! We met the boat captains at the restaurant and then drive to the start we we loaded into the rafts. I was in the front which in my opinion was the best seat because you had a clear view of the beautiful landscape with the mountains surrounding you and the beautiful clear blue water in front of you. Plus you got the most wet as we splashed through the rapids. It was an amazing time and the perfect day for rafting. 

After rafting we got lunch which was also delicious. I got a traditional plate of the region called "sopa cholo" which actually isn't a soup but rather pasta with a spicy tomato sauce and chicken. I liked it a lot and I was really hungry so I ate it extremely fast. The dish is called a soup because when the dish was originally presented to the Spanish by the "cholos" or indigenous of the mountains there was a little but if broth in the bottom. After dinner we finished with the four wheelers at night driving through the mud and dust it was really cool but I needed to wash my mouth out after from all the dust. After that very busy day we did unfortunately have to get back on the bus and return home.