After our coca adventure we did a little more shopping and then headed back to the hotel to get ready for dinner. I bought these:
This little owl is a gourd used for drinking yerba mate. Yerba mate is traditionally enjoyed with friends. You share the gourd, straw and tea but not the water. The person who starts the gourd drinks the first couple batches to ensure that the tea is smooth and has formed a good seal around the straw preventing tea leaves from getting in the straw(bombilla). Then it's puff, puff, pass. Ha ha, just kidding. Argentinian Gauchos are famous for their yerba mate drinking. Also, while we were in Uruguay we saw tons of people walking around town with their gourds.
We had an early dinner at a place called Map Cafe near our hotel. The food was amazing and the atmosphere was perfect. It is a beautiful restaurant in the Museum of PreColombian art. It is a large glass box in the courtyard inside the museum.
Then it was off to bed. We had to get up early to make it to the bus to Machu Picchu!
Can you believe this was all only day 1?
Goodnight.
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