Blogs from Cusco, Cusco, Peru, South America - page 192

Cuzco var stedet og maalet var Machu Picchu. Byen ligger 3300 moh, saa det var kaldt naar man kommer fra lavlandet. Cuzco var regnet som hovedstaden i Inca riket og fungerer naa som hovedstad i Peru's turisttrafikk. Pga hoeydeforskjellen er det annbefalt aa vaere et par dager i byen foer man tar fatt paa Inca trailen. Saa den tredje morgenen var vi klare faar aa legge ut paa ferden. Selve Inca Trailen er en 44km lang steinvei laget av Incaene over flere hundre aar. Den begynner utenfor Cuzco og ender i Machu Picchu. Trailen fungerte opprinnelig en pilgrims reise, da Machu Picchu var det religioese hovedsetet i riket. Vi var tilfeldigvis havnet i en gruppe med tre nordmenn, resten av gruppen bestod av to italienere, to amerikanere og en soer-Afrikaner. Turen er lagt opp slik at ... read more

I arrived in Cusco at 7 am on Saturday morning from Lima, and my cab from the airport came complete with a tour agent who recommended a hostel with private bath for about $6 a night. It doesn´t have any windows, but the price is great and the guy who runs it is very friendly without being overly attentive, so I´m pretty happy with it. After I checked in, the innkeeper went to make me mate de coca (a tea made with coca leaves that helps prevent altitude sickness) and the tour agent sat me down to plan out my week. It was about 7:30 in the morning, and I´d been up since four, so I was in no mood to argue with her. I let her give me a plan and her agency´s prices, and ... read more

at the emergency room, after having my bodily fluids examined with microscopic scrutiny - it was 300 soles nuevos, a script for a bunch of stuff and call me if you need to in three days.... Everywhere i watched the TV in the last 36 hours in peru, it was about the life of one man, and the good he did in confronting communism, castro, the argentine dictatorships, pinochett and gw bush as well as several other international despots... - i guess it depends where you live - or does it ... read more

Vi befann oss pa lastplanet til en pick-up truck pa väg mot Honduras huvudstad Tegucigalpa. Det var den 24 mars och det var i början av Semana Santa, antagligen den daligaste tidspunkten att företa en resa i Central Amerika. Den enda bussen som kunde ta oss ifran San Pedro Sula til Tegucigalpa var fullbokad och det tvingade oss til att improvisera lite, kansje lika bra det eftersom gardagens bussresa ifran La Ceiba hadde blivit förlängd med ca 2 timmar pga. en trasig fläkträm (alltid fläkträmmen). Men vi var glada för att vara pa väg och det var faktiskt lite charmerande att se Honduras försvinna bakom oss i friluft. Efter en natt i Tegucigalpa flög vi til en ny kontinent, Syd Amerika, närmare bestämt til Peru. Vi lämnade Central Amerika med en känsla av att vi bara ... read more

You know you are alive because you can hear noises, and there is a constant pain in your head and stomach - the perspiration continues to cover everything - has it been three days or four days - is this still cusco - every inch of your body hurts, your joints scream out in pain, and you can not keep thoughts in order - time flows in and out of context - as you pass in and out of consiousness - alone in a far away place, sick with some kind of a bug, after the fourth day of pain and incoherance, you start to question if you will ever be able to eat food again without crawling to the bathroom.... the only reliable way of tellign how many days have passed are the empty coils ... read more