Archive for August, 2008

Shrunken Heads and halucinogenic cactus juice.

Currently in mountain village called Vilcabamba. Had a cool few days in the city of Cuenca where I saw some real shrunken heads in glass cases at the Banco central museum.  Their faces are eerie…the pores and the hairs are clearly visible with their sewn up mouths forming a deathly pilled up gurn. If I was a serial killer, I think I would shrink a few heads.

Also went to a skeleton museum although it was more like a skeleton room. We had to ring a bell because the doors were locked and then this large Ecuadorian woman who looked like a cleaner came to let us in. We paid her and then walked very slowly round the room. You wernt allowed to take pics but I managed to squeeze a couple off.

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