Hello everybody from Cuzco, which in the Inca Language translates at "the belly button of Mother Earth" (apparently!). It's been a manic couple of weeks for yours truly (no surprises there), involving a scenic bus journey through the Andes from Mendoza, a whistle stop return to Santiago, a 5 hour wait at an airport shrouded in fog, a quick visit to Lima, and finally arriving in Cuzco, where the air is so thin, it literally takes your breath away! The bus ride from Mendoza to Santiago was a real experience. I had been told that the mountain pass through the Andes to Santiago had been closed for a number of days due to heavy snow. I was beginning to panic slightly as my bus ride to Santiago was on 24th June, and my flight to Lima
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