Feria de Chinchero pt 2

Back to Chinchero. Today at the stage they are having the Miss Chinchero contest. About 15 teenage girls in regional dress are taking turns walking up to the judge and showering him with flower petals. They have all made their own outfits. Only a couple are what we would consider cute. I go eat lunch, this time a bowl of soup. The meat in it is tripe so I pick it out. There is a display area of local produce. There must be over 100 types of potatoes. Some are purple, pink, red and yellow and have fantastical shapes like they are from outer space. Also several types of dried beans. Back to the beauty contest they are asking them questions in Quechua. Nothing to see here. I wander over to where some men are building the cage for the guinea pig races. How cute. Eventually its time for the cock fights. They are a joke. Out of 5 only 2 are real cockfights. The other ones the cocks just strut around looking at each other for a few minutes, then go at it half heartedly. While this is happening the cuy race takes place but is too packed to see anything. One guy has 2 guinea pigs dressed up un typical clothing, one male and one female. Its way too cute. Around 4 I`ve seem enough and don`t want to freeze my ass off again. A cab takes me to the main road where I soon get a collectivo(shared car) back to town for $2. He drops me off in an area I haven`t been to before. Its the commercial, non tourist part of town and its hopping on Sat evening. Its nice to get out of the tourist zone and see how the real people live