Corn, cheese and chicharrones, a photo from Ayacucho, South

Photographer's Note

Back to the off-the beaten track destinations. This is a daytrip that we took from Ayacucho to Vilcashuaman. Ayacucho is a beautiful colonial city
in the central highlands about 600 km north of Cusco. The city has an impressive colonial legacy and is now connected to the coast by a new road build by the Fujimori administration.

We left Ayacucho at 5 am in a taxi to go 80 KM towards Vilcashuaman, one of the Inca regional capitals through a gravel road going through beatufiful and wild scenerywhich is about 80 KM which is why the trip takes quite a few hours. On the way we stopped in a Puya forest, and other wonders.

This was our breakfast stop, a small hamlet in the middle of nowhere where trucks carrying pasengers would stopover. The hamlet has quite a few
restaurants where you can eat a hearty breakfast of soup, rice and chicken, and tea for about 1 USD. In the andes, breakfasts are hearty because of the
tradition of peasant people eating well before hitting the fields. By the way, Luan you will love Peru as rice is served with everything, everywhere.

The fallen sign says "Choclo con Queso y Chicharrones".
Choclo is a peruvian spanish word for corn,, so corn with cheese. Chicharrones is a local specialty of pork meat fried in its own grease. It is very good.

supereira, timotey, sam224, Tue, gaby ha puntuado esta nota como útil.

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supereira (9576) 2005-08-12 3:53

Good daily life shot.I like the composition and point of view.I like the light,textures and sharpness.Great colors and contrasts.Good job!

timotey (119) 2005-08-12 4:17

Hello Daniel,

Votre note est un vrai plaisir. Je me suis évadé pendant quelques instants. Elle accompagne bien votre photo. Celle-ci est très bien réalisée et composée avec le sentiment d'une journée qui commence: la lumière encore rasante traduit bien ce moment de la journée. Le détail du panneau tombé est insolite et amusant et concourt à finir en beauté votre composition. Bravo !

jinju (14265) 2005-08-12 4:37

Not bad. Interesting daily life shot. Reminds me of mexican movies and the kind of rural reality there.

sam224 (6215) 2005-08-12 5:18

Nice scene of daily life. Good composition with interesting mix of colours: the red car stands out very weel against the white house in the BG. Well seens and composed.
Well done!

fabio_ts (13696) 2005-08-12 5:48

One other nice Daily Life image here..Peru must be a fascinating country..and I hope to go to visit it next..
Have a nice day, Fabio.

Zepi (22848) 2005-08-12 8:33

Hello Daniel,
Très chouette prise de vue.
Ca c'est du dépaysement !
TRès bon cadrage et pdc.
Excellent travail
Merci pour le partage
Amicalement,
Sébastien

naxius (16685) 2005-08-12 14:23

Salut Daniel,
Une photo qui nous fait voyager! Très dépaysante!
J'aime beaucoup..
Alex

dolin (7369) 2005-08-12 16:07

Hello Daniel.
Une scène assez simple....mais quel dépaysement ;)
Ca me fait toujours marrer ces gens entassés sur l'arrière du "camion"...comme dans les films.
Un bon cadrage, bien vu.
Fred

Tue (93412) 2005-08-12 16:44

Hi Daniel,
Very nice picture in which the car adds good colours. The light and the shadows are also good. Well composed and taken, real good work!
Have a nice weekend, groeten,
Lars

gaby (19819) 2005-08-13 1:22

Hi Daniel, j'adore ta photo sortie tout droit d'un film et ta note super intéressante et funny -
Bravo pour cette image super bien composée avec des couleurs terribles et merci d'avoir pensé à Luan qui en est réduit semble t'il actuellement au seul riz français - je reconnais que ça doit être très dur pour lui ??
Bonne journée et merci
Gaby

PixelTerror (0) 2005-08-13 5:34

Salut Daniel,
TRes belle photo des hauteurs, on dirait du Sergio Leone moderne (avec la voiture a la place des chevaux). J'aime bien ce detail du panneau tombe, l'aspect retro du pick up americain et la bonne luminsite de ta photo.
Bonne journee,
Jean-Yves

Luan (12971) 2005-08-14 4:15

Hahah, je vais gouter les spécialites du Perou...miam j'ai hate. Ca a l'air bien perdu et isolé au milieu de nul part ton truc, un photo qui depayse et un decor peu commun.
Bon dimanche
Luan

Evolution (91) 2007-07-21 21:08

Daniel,
the title of this photo got my attention. I lived in Peru for one year back in 1998. and have travlled there 3 seperate times, the first being in 1988. it remains one of my favorite contries to visit. I miss eating chicharrones ! and ceviche !.
i also travelled by public bus thru the mountains between Arriquipa, Huancayo and Ayacucho. a very special part of peru. unfortunetly my camera was stolen in Mexico before i arrived in Peru, so i didnt get any photos of that part of my trip.
take care,
Brian