Visiting the starting point

The summoning Puma, the tutelary mountain of Cajamarca, the beloved Qayaqpuma, opened its doors to us a few weeks ago.

We didn't have to explain our origin, our pretensions or our status, he just opened at one of his bends and invited us to visit him, accompany him and walk around him.

So we arrived, some volunteers from the Network and the APU Cultural Association, with a bottle of water on our shoulders, our hearts full of dreams, desires and experiences to share.

In that calm space, I remembered what Ciro Alegría told us through Lucas Vilca in "The Golden Snake" about the man who dies in the middle of the journey because he doesn't know the point of arrival and has forgotten the point of departure. Thus, I felt that we were on the right path, in the right time and space to re-feel our wanderings.

On the way to the top we found tombs of our grandparents, looted tombs, paintings impregnated in infinite rocks, tadpoles taking advantage of the clean water sources and spending their last stage there before moving to the crags like frogs and toads. Bromeliads, orchids, wild flowers and medicinal plants accompanied us all the way.

After a long time I felt again that pleasure that you can only find when you are on the right path.