Tale number 501: In which a whore falls down a hole

So, having left shitty La Paz, ventured through Copacobana (really not much to say, I discovered I like trout, which is a bonus), we arrived in Cusco, Peru, on Friday. And wow, what a place! Lovely weather, guinea pig to eat, kids trying to sell me puppies for 3 pounds, and more partying til 6AM! Two nights in a row in fact, both of which have involved some form of face painting and varying degrees of degradation.

Disclaimer: Mother, you may not want to read this bit!

Last night produced THE story of the trip so far for me! Although Sanjay comes a close second with his having to relieve his dodgy bowels off the side of a boat, but thats another story...

Having been out saturday night, and met a very lovely (if tiny and not in the slightest english speaking) girl, I was keen to venture out again on Sunday and so got to business recruiting a crew. This kind of failed, in which I ended up with 3 people - Sachin, Jasmine, and a german dude. However we quickly set off for the usual tour of getting free drinks in the bars, dancing like idiots, and generally doing England proud! Returning to the club I was in Saturday, we found my lady friend and Sachin proceeded to hit on her friend... Come 5AM, Sachin decided he had persuaded the girls to let us stay at their place, and so off we went. In fact, we ended up at a hotel which wanted to charge us about $50 a night, so smelling a rat we did a bit of a runner... into a nearby taxi.

Now, usually at 5.30AM people would be ready to go home, in fact this was my suggestion. But not Sachin, cue "otra chicas por favour" (other girls please). 15 minutes later, we were outside a curious looking blanketted door with a red light eminating from inside. Needless to say, I immediately started trying to flag down a taxi to get back to the hostel. Turning round to check on Sachin, I find him trying to negotiate with the ladies, to get them down from $40 to $10. But I was glad I did turn round, as one of the ho's - possibly enraged by his insolence - came running out of the brothel, and fell straight down a pot hole that was about 6ft deep! Cue laughing so much I nearly peed my pants, and jumping into the nearest taxi to make an escape.

Cusco is funny.

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