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Cusco Main Square
The shops are somewhere near. Forget TLC, we were ready for a bit of CLC after completing the Inca Trail. So that´s what we embarked on:
C...usco
L...ima
C...ancun.
CUSCO
The day after we completed the Inca Trail I was supposed to go white water rafting at 8:30am. Yeah, like that was ever gonna happen. Instead we slept until late morning and went into the town for lunch. In the afternoon we had a massage with accompanying sound effects straight out of a horror film. Natalie was in the next booth to me and as soon as her masseuse started on her thighs and calves (the leg ones, not the veal-investment she made with a cow herder on the trail) she started to screech in pain. The poor masseuse knew little English but kept telling Natalie "I sorry missus, I have pain in my heart, but this is important". Every yelp was accompanied by an inistsiance on the importance of the action.
I couldn´t chuckle too much from my side as my calves were pretty painful as well.
That evening Linda, from the Inca Trail group, was celebrating her birthday so we met the gang at the Fallen Angel, a funky bar/steak
From our balcony...
Pretty cool...especially compared to hostels and tents. house. Our table was a bathtub, corvered with a glass top and fish swimming around in the water. The guys enjoyed plenty of cocktails but I kept to the water as my tum was still a little delicate and certainly not ready for Red Devil Margarittas and other deadly cocktails.
LIMA
We departed Cusco the next morning at lunchtime and arrived in Lima. Lima is the capital of Peru and contains many architecturally interesting landmarks, which we´ll have to assume is true as we never got anywhere near them.
We stayed in the Miraflores area of the city, close to the shopping district. That afternoon Natalie went wild with a Starbucks, shopping and cinema...and I joined her stocking up on the T Shirt collection including a fetching number with pink horses on it.
On Saturday we were upgraded to the executive suite in the hotel after we complained about the noisy American kids who had kept us up for a few hours the night before. So we took advantage of the massive hot tub and bed the size of Bedford.
Saturday night we met Isaac and Fi who had just arrived from the UK for a holiday.
And from our balcony today!
Wr thought palm tree leaves hung down, not horizontally. So as if we were in St Albans meeting up for dinner, we went out for pasta and a couple of cheeky beers. We passed on advice about the Inca Trail but kept the horror stories to a minimum and eventually let them get to sleep (as it must have been the equivalent of 6am for them by then).
CANCUN
By Sunday afternoon we´d made it to our hotel in Cancun...seem the white sand and bright blue ocean and settled into our honeymoon frame of mind (cocktails - seafood- sleeping). The hotel has a fabulous pool and plenty of activities and it is really easy to travel between malls (yes, there are plenty of those), hotels and restaurants on public transport.
I´m not sure what I expected from Cancun. In naivity I thought it would be a few hotels (10-15), a few restaurants and that would be about it. How wrong I was! It is like an American city spread out along a beach. You name it, they have it here. And the portions...proper America styleee. Yesterday the waitress was shocked that we ordered two entrees for lunch, reminding us that we had to order a main meal - when the Nachos came out, there was enough to feed half of Mexico and still have some for breakfast.
We had fantatsic massages on Sunday, so much so that I managed to fall asleep 3 times and when I got up I couldn´t feel my legs. I played golf yesterday on a course where crocodiles live in the lakes (so no retriving the ball from the water). And we´ve got plans to swim (and generally annoy) the dolphins, snorkel and of course eat more seafood than Captain Birdseye sees in a year.
For the latter we´ve done pretty well to date with lobster consumed on a daily basis, a minimum dose of 15 prawns a day and even some crab claws thrown in.
The only downside is the weather which has been overcast for the entire 4 days so far and today is very windy and wet. Still, we survived the Torres del Paine in brilliant sunshine (usually, gale force snow showers there), walked the Inca Trail in T-shirts & shorts, and experienced rain about twice in two months. So the weather gods are just getting us ready for our return to England most likely.
Unless anything exciting happens (like Natalie gets eaten by a dolphin, we manage to eat our way through the lobster population of the Caribean or we meet Al Pacino) this will be the last blog. We hope that you have enjoyed the updates and photos.
Hasta La Vista, Babies!
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Mark
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Mmmmm.... lobster.