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Published: November 30th 2007
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Ahola,
In our last blog entry we had got as far as Arequipa, Peru. We spent one full day chillen in Arequipa which we used to go to do a bit of shopping, look at the plazas ans stuff and go to the monestry. The monestry was the main touristy thing we did, i forget how much it cost to get in, 30 soles each maybe (10US). It was fairly interesting place to have a look around even if your not into the whole god thing, which i´m not. For those of you not familar with a monestry it is where the nuns chill out, live. This partiular monestry in Arequipa is massive, its spreadover 5 acres and is like a town within a town. Theres heaps of praying room, living quaters, kitchens and creepy religious paintings and what not. We spent maybe two hours looking around it.
We left Arequipa on that night on a bus bound for Cuzco, the bus left at 8:30pm from memory and arrived in Cuzco at 5:30am the next morning. The bus was real nice, we got served desert for dinner, jelly and brownie which was a bit whack. The bus driver however seem
to thing he was a formula one driver as he went flying around corners nearly flinging us out of our seats and would sit on the brakes really hard also nearly flinging us out of our seats. The bus company was called Ciale i think. Due to his nutty driving we arrive an hour ahead of schedule so had to wait an hour for our transfer to the Hostel we had organised to stay at called Home Sweet Home. We spent our first day in Cuzco looking around and doing a bit of shopping at the markets.
The following day we had organsied to do a tour of the sacred valley which departed at 9am. The tour was pritty decent and didn´t cost that much. We saw two different Inka sites in the Valley which generally comprised of fortes, terraces for growing crops on and burial sites. We´ve been coming across more and more americans in Peru in comparision to everwhere else. There was one particularly annoying american girl in our tour who was here with her mum and grandparents, i through she was our tour guide to start with because when we arrived she was like ¨hullo everybody i´m
from America and this is my mum and granparents, this is gunna be a really great tour, where are all you folks from¨.
Anyways our tour ended up ended up in Ollantaytambo at the end of the tour where we stayed the night and caught the train the train the next night to Aguas Calientes, a little town just at the foot of the mountain that Machu Picchu is on. We arrived in Aguas Calientes at 10pm on Tuesday night and after some confusion found the hostel we had orgained to stay at. Emily had been feeling a bit sick on the train and ended up throwing up that night. We were up early the next morning, 5am, to catch the earliest bus up to Machu Picchu. Emily was still feeling sick but we managed to see all the things we wanted to at Machu Picchu anyway. We did the hour walk up to the sun gate/sun temple, walk through machu picchu itself and hiked up Wanapicchu a big rock that looks down on machu picchu. It took an hour to climb up and was a bit like climbing lion rock at piha except bigger. The view from the top
was awesome though, and there were butterflies and a friendly falcon at the very top.
We left aguas calientes on a train leaving at 4pm and were back in Cuzco at 8ish. Thats when i succumbed to the sickness emily got as well. I threw up a couple of times during the night, but luckly for me that was as far as it went because i feel fine now. Emilys lasted a bit longer than mine but she´s feeling better now too. We left Cuzco on Thursday morning at 8:30am heading to Puno. We arrived in Puno yesterday afternoon at 4pm. We re staying in Puno one whole day to take a boat tour of lake Titicaca, the worlds highest navigatable lake. We leave for La Paz, Bolivia on Saturday morning at 7am.
Oh yea as far as the title for this blog is concerned we meet and american guy who is one a year long travelling scholarship who had just been to japan and said it was very homogenous society and used other random big words. Also every second thing you said to him he would say he respects that. He was rather amusing, so the title is
ust taking the piss out of him.
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quillan
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senora emily, qu'e cast'e ce on the train