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South America » Peru » Cusco » Cusco July 4th 2005

¡Hola todos! Grab a cup of coffee, it is another long one. By the way, thanks for all the positive feedback on the blog so far. I am no longer having trouble with uploading photos so enjoy. Thursday, June 30th The first week of Spanish classes are coming to a close for us and sitting in class for 4 hours every afternoon while the city of Cusco hums and buzzes is not an easy task. Add to the fact that I have spent most mornings this week trying to sleep in and recover from being ill and feeling weak only to get up, head to the cybercafé and spend hours uploading photos to no avail (looks like a big slideshow and wine dinner when I get back folks, for the rest not in SF, once I ... read more
Hostal de Patio-Lima
Above Cusco
Calle Fiero-our street in Cusco

South America » Peru » Cusco » Cusco July 2nd 2005

Livet paa resande fot boerjar bli lite mer fridfullt igen! Idag har vi njutit av den vackra Inkastaden och den faschinerande historien om Inkariket. Vi har foersoekt smaelta alla nya intryck och upplevelser ifraan Inkaturen och oevrigt... Shoppade loss paa en hantverksmarknad och upplevde Peru paa baesta saett. Skoj att pruta! :) Laemnade in 14 kilo tvaett till tvaetteriet. Inatt skall det packas & fixas infoer morgondagens flight till Lima vid 12.40. Sedan vaentar en resa med buss upp mot Ecuador. Vi tar dagarna som de kommer, men kommer att stanna till naagra dagar i norra Peru vid kuststaden Mancora, foer att sedan ta oss upp till Quito (Ecuador). PUSSAR & KRAMAR till er alla! Nu har vi rest i over en maanad! :) Jenny & Lisa ... read more
Katedralen pa Plaza de Armas, Cuzco
Cafébesok med utsikt over Plazan..supergod farskpressad juice..och mumsig hamburgare

South America » Peru » Cusco » Cusco June 29th 2005

¡Hola! from Cusco, Well, it has been a very busy and eventful and exciting first week here in Peru. As many of you were shocked to hear, this is my first trip to a country off the North American continent. There have been some things that I expected, some things that were surprises, some things that take a little getting used to and some things that are just too familiar that I thought I could escape from for a while but cannot. So now that I’ve settled into a bit of a groove here in Cusco, I have finally made the time to get some details of the trip down before they fade away into blurry and scrambled memories. Jake and I arrived at the airport right at the same time; we thought this was a ... read more

South America » Peru » Cusco » Cusco June 28th 2005

אנדים אינקות ואלפקות, הגענו לקוסקו יום רביעי 29/6 היום עשינו יום עתיקות על סוסים קרוב לקוסקו יום חמישי 30/6 העמק הנסתר עוד יום עתיקות יפה ששעמם את מירי האזנגטה יום שישי 1/7 יום לא מעניין, רק נסיעות מפחידות באוטובוס הגענו בחמש בצהריים להוסטל, בואו נאמר חדר חלול עם מיטות לעשרה אנשים פשוט אנחנו לא רגילים לישון במקומות המוניים גרנו ביחד עם משפחה ענייה מאוד שמכינה פופקורן כל היום וגם תה יום שבת 2/7 היום לשם שינוי יש אקשן היה מפגש מרתק עם הסוסים או הפרדות ארזנו את התיקים והתחלנו ללכת ולרכב הנופים היו מאלפים בדרך פוגשים מקומיים שרוצים קצת כסף או אוכל, כנראה אנחנו דומים לבנקומטים היום היה יום קצר בשתיים בצהריים הגענו ליעד הרבה שעות מתות לשרוף עד מחר ואין שום צמחייה שאפשר לשרוף לקומזיץ אין שום דבר שאפשר לעשות כלום כמו כן בכל ... read more
זה אוהד
מירי ונהר הקויילאבאמבה
העמק הנעלם

South America » Peru » Cusco » Cusco June 27th 2005

Well, it's been a while since visiting an internet cafe due to isolation. Just finished the Inca trail yesterday (see next journal). Arrived in Cuzco last wednesday afternoon, where we met up with my bro Glenn who had flown in from England. We pretty much got settled into the hostel, went out for dinner, did a bit of shopping and then back to the hostel for our Inca Trail briefing. We were due to be picked up at 6.00am in the morning. This morning we wandered about Cuzco and did more shopping, before flying to Lima this arvo. Cuzco is buzzing with tourists, and hence we were constantly harrassed to buy stuff, or eat at restaurant's, many times having up to 5 menu's shoved in front of us, and the locals talking over the top of ... read more
3 Amigos!

South America » Peru » Cusco » Cusco June 26th 2005

Today was travel a day. We left our homebase hostel in Cuzco (not sure if I mentioned it, but this hotel (structure) must be at least 600 years old) built on a side of a mountain (as most things are in this region, for lack of flat land) Flight to Lima was smooth and uneventful. As expected Lima was covered in its perpetually gray winter sky. The city is a stark change from Cuzco, which in retrospect has done a very good job in preventing media advertising from being pasted allover its buildings and landscape. Lima seems more like a free for all... a building inspectors nightmare. The hotel we arrived at over booked our group so we ended up migrating to alternate accommodations down the road... was actually much nicer in the Miraflores district. Tomorrow ... read more
Last day in Cuzco - Hotel Dinning Room

South America » Peru » Cusco » Cusco June 26th 2005

Pisac being a small town in the Sacred Valley, at about an hour´s (absolutely horrendously sickening) bus ride from Cusco. There was a market, half local, half tourist. We took seats in the balcony of a cafe overlooking the lot. Fab view, with the tips of the Inca ruins just visible and all the hustle and bustle beneath. Old women kneel on sheets with foodstuffs laid out around them for sale. While one biddy was off weeing in the streets or something (they do this, saw it with our own eyes, like two-year-olds in nappies, just crouch when they need to) a dog came and had a good nibble at the mangy chicken carcasses she was selling. Seeing as how we had observed that most cafes don´t keep anything but the basic ingredients on site and ... read more

South America » Peru » Cusco » Cusco June 25th 2005

¡Hola, mis amigos! In case I haven´t told you as of yet, I am currently in Cuzco, Peru, where I will be spending the entire summer. As with my last trip, I will be sending out periodic updates with pictures and a story or two. Unlike last time, however, I will try to use this free travelblog site to do the dirty work, instead of emailing everyone directly. If it works pretty well, I will continue using this... if there are problems, I will either find another travelblog site or go back to the individual emails. Anyway, for those of you whom I have not spoken with recently, here is the brief account of why I am now in South America: over the past 9 months or so, I have been looking into full-time business schools. ... read more
Viva el Peru
Other students from Amauta
Me and the niños

South America » Peru » Cusco » Cusco June 25th 2005

As expected, the Inca Trail was fantastic, as was Machu Picchu. Truly amazing. One thing I hadn´t anticipated was the variety of microclimates you go through. We saw so many different animals and flowers and things. This made the whole trek interesting, as well as the ruins you see on the way, and the thrill of walking on real Inca road. Machu Picchu was awe-some (I added a hyphen so you hopefully won´t read it with an American accent.). It´s the setting. Those mountains... I dashed around from room to room, stroking everything, pausing only to stare up at the Andes. Mist got in the way of the view from the sun gate, unfortunately, but I bought a postcard of that view, so tant pis. The trek was a bit of a walk in the park, ... read more

South America » Peru » Cusco » Cusco June 24th 2005

Sitting in a pasta restaurant with Denise during the height of the Inti Raymi Festival parades at 9 o'clock at night in Cusco the ancient capital of the Incas, I look out the window onto some curving stairs to find umpteen men peeing in a steady stream, which cascades down the hill into the ancient Inca drainage system! One can imagine this has been the practice since the 1400's! Now I know why they built it with such meticulous detail! Fortunately Denise is facing the other way. We arrived early in Cusco as we had to prematurely evacuate Bolivia during the campesino protests. We flew from Cochabamba, via La Paz in Bolivia over the highest navigable lake in the world, Lake Titicaca, and the towering Andes, and swooped down into Cusco like some great condor (an ... read more
Sunrise over Cusco
Ice cream van in Cusco
Drummers parade during Inti Raymi Festival




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