THE IMPORTANCE OF LOCAL GUIDES
It has always been clear to me that local guides play an important role in everyone’s daily life.
But now I confirm it even more, living it in my own flesh, I live in Lima (Peru), and for national holidays (July) I took a trip to Cañete to meet some friends, the plan was simple, to get to the Plaza de Imperial ( Cañete) and there he would receive new instructions.
As the plan reaches imperial, I tell my friends and ask, now where am I going, and they tell me to take any taxi, and tell them to take me to the Arimathea school (they told me: “everyone knows”), So I stop a taxi, I tell him to take me to the Arimathea school, and I didn’t know it, and that’s how it happened with three other taxis, and none of them gave me a reason.
Obviously I took out my cell phone, I opened the googlemaps app, I looked for the school and it did not exist,
I called my friends again to ask for a more exact reference and they told me: tell the taxi driver to take you to “Josefina’s second entrance”, and two other taxis looked at me as if I had told them to take me to Narnia.
Already a third taxi gave me reason, so I went up, I looked for Josefina in google maps and if it existed.
But …, when advancing with the taxi I realized that it was definitely not the place where I had to arrive, since it was an area that did not seem very safe, I located myself again on the map and if it was “Josefina” but it was not there .
So I indicated that they would take me to a large park that I found on the map (Parque Cerro Alegre), there already safe, I walked a little and updated some photos of the church and municipality of it.
I called my friends and had them send me their location by WhatsApp, and in that way, indicating to another taxi driver, I finally arrived at the meeting point.
Of course, before that, I went directly to see the Jose de Arimatea school, relocated and updated it, as well as other nearby institutions and businesses.
Sometimes the location does not exist in google maps and getting somewhere without notion, or a photo of the area complicates things a lot.
I hope that with the photos and new locations I can support other people who pass through Nuevo Imperial (Cañete).
Postscript:
In Peru, tamales are usually sold on Sundays for family breakfast, you usually find them in bakeries or small stalls on street corners, all ready to take home.
In Cañete (Nuevo Imperial) on Sundays, they also sell tamales but in a peculiar way, on the same avenue they take out some giant pots (photo attached) and finish cooking them right there.
I think it is a good breakfast whether you live in the area or are passing by on the highway to Lunahuaná or Yauyos, two extraordinary tourist spots in Peru.
Atte
Anthony Palomino Quintana
