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Published: September 11th 2007
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Virgin Mary´s Arrival in Nazca
this is a holiday, I forget what it´s called though :-( Until now do I realize that the Incas, perhaps, really have a thing about stones!!!
I just got back from dinner with my Korean friends! We had Chicharróns, what it was was deep fried pork and some rice, with some potatoes...and man, did it feel like I was eating stones...the "inca stones" that is...just kidding.
Anyways, let me just update a little about Nazca and my bus ride from Nazca to Cuzco....
So I was in Nazca, and I did the one thing that all tourists do.....that is to fly over the Nazca desert and watch the Nazca lines. The flight was pretty fun, I got the co-pilot seat, at times the pilot was flying the plane at an angle almost perpendicular to the ground, I felt a bit sick, and almost threw up, luckily the flight lasted only about 45 minutes, and afterwards, it was actually pretty amazing.
The other highlight I had in Nazca was my stay with my host, who is a local astronomer by the name of Edgard. He spoke 5 different languages. We exchanged some pretty exciting travelling stories, recommonded me to hitchhike here in South America, before the thought hadn´t even
crossed my mind I have to say, but now that someone had mentioned it to me, I am seriously thinking about doing it! Edgard works in the planetarium in the local 3 star hotel (which costs 91 US dollars a night, that is way out of my budget, mind you! it was the most descent hotel in Nazca). At any rate, Edgard invited me to attend one of his astronomy lectures, where he explained a little about the Nazca lines - that really kept me pondering, throughout my 13 hour bus ride from Nazca to Cuzco by the way.... I am simply amazed, at the intelligence of the Nazca people...I mean I don´t think that the Nazca lines could have been accidental!
After the lecture, I was supposed to catch the bus. I think that I was lucky that I made it to the bus stop just in time to catch the bus (8 pm), but the sad thing was I didn´t get to say goodbye to my wonderful host in Nazca. Hopefully one day I will see him in Canada.
So, at the bus stop, just before boarding, I met 4 Koreans, and an American and a
About to fly over the Nazca lines
inside the plane in the co-pilot seat Peruvian who married a Japanese...which made the trip quite interesting.
I saw all the way in the front on a 2 floor bus..had the panoramic view and all...it was really great since I got to see everything, but in the morning it was a drag, because the sun was shining directly on me and boy was it hot! Yet during the night, it was freezing, and I have to say it was a little scary watching how the bus driver was driving the bus from on top....it was sort of like a roller coaster movie that you´d see in an IMax 360 theatre...
I also saw people sitting on top of buses travelling through the night..I wonder how cold that must have been, since I was already cold inside the bus.
During the bus ride I also spoke with Leslie (the American girl who was travelling in Peru), it was pretty inspiring, she is planning to drive from Lima to San Francisco...which was something simliar to what I had planned to do...drive from Vancouver to Brazil. I hope that she will make that trip and tell me about it later on.
I also saw a
lot of highland Peruvians, whom I had only know from pictures in lonely planet books and the movie Motorcycle Diaries...it was very interesting. I have yet to see a lama though...I look forward to it.
At 10:30 I got into Cusco, and found the place where I will be working, got oriented, settled down, took a hot shower (my first HOT shower in days). and then I just relaxed and updated the blog...until about 6 pm Peruvian time, I met up with my Korean friends and had the chicharrón.....
we had some interesting conversations among ourselves and with the locals.
One of my new Korean, Sou, inspired me to do another trip next year..which I have yet to plan more in.
Basically I´d be going to Portugual, visit Lisboa, then walk the Santiago Pilgrim, and travel from West to East Europe...then through Siberia into Korea, then Japan then Taiwan...
I am excited!!!!
Anyways, this blog may seem a little rushed, but I have only 10 minutes left, with which I will upload some pictures for you.....
I shall update again in a few days
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Peruvians are super nice...
after the dinner,
when my Korean friends and myself went to a local store to get some toilet papers and water, the people in the store invited us to have some Peruvian rum...and Peruvian rum and coke....just like that!
Man, I love South America
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