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Published: January 21st 2008
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So here we are…..sorry it’s been three weeks since our last blog but it’s just been crazy! Haven’t had a chance to update this but we’ll try now to summarise as short as we can!! (we’ll try!)
Well let me just start in saying if you're deciding to rent a car here in Peru, i suggest you think otherwise! A driver from another country would crash as soon as their car hit the roads here! Road rules??? What are they?? Every 2 seconds another person is cutting you off....zebra crossing?? They don't exist here!! Then again with taxis so cheap (a 30minute taxi ride will costs you approx $5 and that's pushin it!!) No will definitely not be renting a car here!!! Mind you, when you're running late to make your plane to Cusco at 5am, you don't seem to mind that the taxi driver is going 100 k/ph in a 50k/ph zone and running all the red lights....!! hah more on that later....
On the 8th we caught a bus with Tia Paty and Tio Gabriel to Nasca...for s./30 we got what we paid for!....a bus with windows sounded like they were going to break off and halfway
thru the 6 hours bus ride we had to change buses at Ica (not the most pleasant of all stops let me tell you!) and then arriving to Nasca at 6am with no accommodation booked in a town where every car has 'taxi' written on the dashboard!! As long as we got a mattress we were happy! We had managed to get a name of a hostel right in the centre and thankfully had accommodation for us to stay (Walk on In) and for $8us a night we were cheering…pool and all, although Yannick wasn’t too impressed as he had read on the net that it had cable tv. The ad didn’t lie except for the fact that it was in the common room and there was always people hogging it! In all we didn’t have much time to watch tv as after a few hours sleep we were off to see the Lines of Nasca.
Another amazing place in Peru where they discovered these massive (and when I say massive im talkn bout hundreds of metres!) markings on the ground created around 200bc. To see them properly you have to fly up in a little propeller plane (and
can we suggest you do not eat anything prior to flying…the turbulence is arrrghhh n when u have a random at the front throwing up argghhhh not the best!) That being sad though the flight over he lines is amazing! A lot of the pics didn’t turn out but altogether there are hundreds of images of different animals and arrows….it’s awesome and how the people did this back in the day!!?? Oh, and that night as Rose n Yannick slept peacefully there was a 5 second earthquake…as the usual we did not hear a thing!!
Then on the 12th we were off to Cusco! Mind you that morning we were thinking otherwise! As patient as we are when our bus for the airport hadn’t come after half an hour we decided it would be best to catch a cab to the airport, we gave the travel agent a call to let them know and within minutes he rang back to say that the bus dude thought it was for the following day! Ahhhhh so quickly we ran to the main street hoping to catch a cab that would actually take us to the airport and not take advantage of
us aussie tourists!! And yes, we were lucky, not only did we make it to the airport but the taxi driver got us there within 20minutes doing 100 in 50 zones and running as many red lights as he could! That being said when we got to the airport we had already missed our flight We rang the travel agent again (Incamerica) who came down to the airport (mind you this was at 5.30am on a Saturday) where he paid $200us for another flight leaving at 8.30…..where in Sydney would you get that service?? Woohoo within an hour we were in Cusco!!
The high altitude didn’t affect us we were able to relax a little before going on a city tour of Cusco….We will definitely be going back again with more time! Sorry we uploaded so many pics but we narrowed it down to as low as we could! As you’ll see in the pics the weather was temperamental when the sun was out it was hot but when it rained it poured!! Thank god there was always little kids selling ponchos on the streets for s./2 Bargain! We stayed a total of 4 days and there’s heaps
of places we sill wanted to see! It’s funny coz all you hear people say is Machu Picchu but when it comes down to it there’s so many more places like Pisac, Ollamtaytambo and Saqsaywaman to name a few which are equally as beautiful as Machu Picchu!
The history that Peru has in general is amazing. There are a few pics that we took at Ollamtaytambo where on a mountain looking across form the view, carved on the actual mountain carved is a face of an inca…look at the pics…the image is massive and how the incas were about to do this is amazing! The tour guides that took us around were awesome and congrats to those guys who are able to walk up those million stairs all the time….that’s enough exercise for the year for Rose! For those of you that understand Spanish we suggest goin with a Spanish tour guide, they go into the history and structure more..also, give yourselves at least a week!
On the Tuesday it was time to return to Lima….we waited at the hotel for our bus driver to take us to the airport. Again, not the best luck. A police officer
had made him go round the block coz he double parked….that already made us 20 minutes late thanks to the traffic…BUT we made it onto the place just in time for them saying “Final call for Sn Yannick y Snr Rosanna to board……” the lady was not impressed but we made it! Woohoo!
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