EN FRANCAIS PLUS BAS MORE PHOTOS HERE Peru is the reason I added South America, and five months, to my original itinerary idea. I had always wanted to go, but ever since my friend Yamil had gone and come back with stories and pictures of the Macchu Picchu back in 2003, it was a very definite dream, and a compulsory stop on this adventure. The stench outside the Lima airport is hardly bearable, a mix of rotten fish, black waters, and chemical discharge, but my CS host is real sweet, picking me up from the airport at 5.00am. I get a little sleep before hitting the center, an hour from there in a "combi," the local mini-bus, with a guy at the door shouting routes and whisking you in and out the speeding machine, which hardly
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