dear amigos, it has been some time since i last wrote, so long that i have forgotten some really awesome things that has happened since then, that i will now attempt to remember. you see, the whirlwind tour through peru was fast-paced and action-packed. sites included the poor man´s galapogos (paracas reserve, where there are many birds and seals and things playing in the water), a trip to giant sand dunes near ica where we took off in a dune buggey giving an effect similar to the best roller coasters i have ever been on, the famous lines of nazca (carved figures like monkeys, humming birds, hands, etc only visible from air), a 3 day hike in colca canyon where the largest birds on earth (condors) frequent, and finally, the jewel of the trip, machu picchu.
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