Pachica

Dear reader:

Ok, ok, ok... Today i have to talk about a place that i enjoyed visiting. (it's an obligation). In the year 2007 when i was 15, my dad said: "i have a old friend that have a house, of adobe, in a really small village: Pachica". Pachica was a site of cultivation like: corn, lettuce and alfalfa, before the hispanic's colonization. The ubication is in the north of Chile, in Ravine of Tarapacá, inside of Iquique. Continuo with the history, my mother said: "ok, let's go (like Dora the explorer)". When we arrived to the place, we saw some alpacas, llamas, and a house ubicated in the center of the ravine.

It 's a magnificent place to connect with real natural experience. It's a place where the hours isn't mark time, only the sun in the morning, indicate that the day is starting. Where in the nigth we can see the star and shooting star. You can to touch the animals and listen the river. When you are boring you can go to see the big mountain, with all the stratigraphy that the passage of time has left.

The small village dosn't have too much house, only some protestant church, and the tradicional catolic church... and this. The people are very alone, sometimes, but they are good person, they are farmer, but not like tipical, because, the have only the ravine to farm

Once a year, they have a party, a BIG, really, BIG party. With too much drink and food. Catapurca is the tradicional dish and traditional drink is pusitunga (90% of alcohol). it's a ritual.

My family and my, love Pachica, and that is my emo post, for today.