things and stuff

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Greetings my friends, tis Rich.

well, weve done quite a lot lately, and have finished school. Alas, Equipo de Fausto is no more! Now that i can prove comprehensively that i cannot speak spanish, we have decamped to tena, via baños, for the Kayak school. NMore to cvome on that soon(ish).

We left Cuenca in style, and in the same vein that we occupied it........drunk. An al night bender with our favouritwe barstaff playing cards was a good way to see out our time there, but missing most of the last day of class was not, and neither was a nine our bus journey with alcohol poisoning. Hohum. On our last day we visited somwe Inca ruins, where 60,000 people were massacred by the victor after a huge battle of the civil war that raged while the spanish subdued the Inca. FANTASTIC!! Rivers of blood and all that.

In Baños we did two things with our intrepid class mates. First we went on a truly awe inspiring hike, see attatched photos. Second, we utterly ignored the advice of our foreign office and took a guided bus tour up to view the majesty of the erupting Mount Tungerua. For the rest of the evening we were dazzled by a stunning display of inertia and millions of tons of rock did exactly what came naturally to them. Absolutely nothing at all, whatsoever. If it wasnt for the gap in the stars in the sky, i wouldnt have known where it was. Four dollars well spent i feel! It turns out that the volcano isnt really doing anything anymore, but why would tour operators let that ruin a good profit? Well, I think that pictures are best for this one, so i´ll run off and luckily fall down a cliff or something.

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Photos

Equipo de Fausto
Fausto is one cool fella, I promise. I cannot, however, explain that ridiculous hat.

Incy Wincy Spider
WOW!! all spiders should be strange shaped yellow things!! It was a lot bigger than it looks, bear in mind its dinner is bigger than any fly ive ever seen in my life. Trying to take photos from 3cm range turned out to be a terrible idea, but i didnt get bitten

BIG
Crikey, what a big gorge. those little toy cars on the road are only half way down. My how we enjoyed inching along the narrow path staring into that drop of certain death

Very pretty
not normally fussed by butterflies, but this one was SEE THROUGH!!!!!
BRILLIANT!

Cablecar
For some reason we decided to completely ignore the perfectly serviceable bridge at the bottom, and cross on this, an open top lurchy cablecar four hundred metres accross and 150 metres up. While we waited to cross we were regaled by tales from Audie, whose parents make wire rope for a living, about how badly set up it was. My word how reassuring

river
one thing you probably cant acuse this country of being is ugly

hills
more of the same, but it looks good

Inca ruins
Lots of fun things didnt happen here, in fact the entire history of the place is ghastly. Its amazing how many people can get killed in one place. Looks very nice though

Comments

[Jen Ho]

happy birthday
hey jen happy birthday for yesterday sounds like you're having an awesome time. see you soon love jen xxx