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Published: November 20th 2006
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Nic at Start......
The hairdryer is packed, but the straightening irons have been left.... Our journey begins with a 0430 wake up and a drive to Heathrow curtasy of Ainsley (thank you). Change in Madrid and onward to Peru. Flew over the Amizon as we passed over Brasil.
On three hours sleep we then managed to book a flight to Cusco fo the next morming, negotiate a taxi fare, survived the Taxi ride (Peruvian drives are worse than Italians) and haggled a $60 room to $40, result!
Our personal taxi driver, Marco, then picked us up to head back to the airport, and out of Lima, phew...not a nice place.
Only a 2 hour delay waiting for the weather to improve in Cusco...you beat us with your 3 day delay stewie and louie!!!
Landing at Cusco was somewhat dramatic. You fly over the Andies, fly over the runway for the airport, then in a Top Gun style move, the pilot banks the plane and drops in altitude , whilst straigtening up for the runway. Kiss your arse goodbye and then you land....
Cusco is lovely, clean and so far friendly. There are quite a few people trying to sell you tat such as fingerpuppets pictures of llamas etc, a prompt
Flight
Just a little rain forrest below. No Gracias usually does the trick, failing that buy something. I am now the proud owner of 5 fingerpuppets, half a dozen pictures of llamas, wrist bands a weaved water bottle holder and a hand painted coconut cup.... Great, you all now know what you are getting at Christmas.
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dad and stephi
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south of america!
Very pleased that you arrived in the good part of the world safely! The weather here is much better than england and maybe even the people. We hope you will start your journey as you mean to go on, in good spirit and safely.....looking forward to more news...love...xxx.