Back in Puno, we bumped into a few fellow backpackers we had met en route and decided to celebrate the occasion with a slap up meal and some pisco sours (local drink). 'Slap up' in Peruvian terms means a 'hefty' food bill of 35 Soles each! this equates to six pounds back home!! It was nice to see familiar faces again. So it was a 'muy triste adios' to Peru, the land of the Incas after our six week stint. We loved the country and what it had to offer; the hospitable people, the ma-husive and very impressive Andes, the never-ending deserts, the ancient ruins and sacred valleys, the pre-Inca sites, and not forgeting of course our time with Bruce Peru. But once again it was time to groove on. South America is a huge continent
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