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My mother has a lovely peruvian poncho, that she bought almost 40 years in Peru and she doesn't want to give it to me. When I ask if I can have it, the answer is always: "Buy yourself one in Peru!"
Now, that's what I want to do now (not Ed, he's not the poncho-loving type) amongst a few other not that important things like the Nazca lines and Macchu Picchu 😉
Anyway, our stay in Peru started with Piura a not very interesting, very hot town near the border of Ecuador. We only stayed for a night to get the night bus to Lima the next day. I can tell you that this bus was the most comfortable bus we were ever in! The seats were like business class seats in a plane and we were well fed on the way. Well, you would expect that on a 14 hour bus ride 😊
In Lima we checked into the weirdest and not very nice hostel ever. It was miles away from everything and quite expensive too. We wanted to meet up with Andrea, a girl from Lima, who we met in Colombia. She was taking us out to a Jazz
concert, another Jazz concert and a house party afterwards. The next day Andrea met with us again and were driving around a little but didn't really do an awful lot. We were in the old town of Lima but by that time we had our fair share of colonial towns and neither of us felt like sightseeing. After 2 nights we were back on a bus to Nazca, only a 7 hour ride.
What do you do in Nazca...you book a flight over the Nazca lines and then get out there as quick as possible!! We managed to book a flight for around $55 incl. "airport" taxes. When we got to the airport at 8am we had to wait for hours. They gave us some lame excuses as to why, so we demanded our money back in the end. Miraculously they found another plane from a different company and we went on our flight eventually. It was pretty cool to be in such a small plane. We were only 4 people incl. the pilot and the flight was pretty rough at times because he was flying sideways a lot, so that we could see the lines. I really enjoyed it
but I think Ed wasn't that impressed....ah well! In the evening we boarded another bus, a 14 hour ride to Cuzco. And it wasn't a pleasant ride. The road is very windy, so we couldn't really sleep much.
In Cuzco we checked into the Point Hostel, one of the party hostels in town, and there was party every day. Not just in the hostel in Cuzco as well. Well, apart from that it was very touristy there and we were too lazy to actually do any sightseeing! We managed to sort out our traintickets for Macchu Picchu though. We decided to go the lazy way, the thought of hiking for 3 days was just too much for us 😊 We couldn't get direct tickets, so we had to go to Ollantaytambo first! That place is amazing and we decided to stay an extra night to have a look around. It's an old Inka village that still has a lot of Inka architecture around. A pleasant break form all the colonial towns we have encountered so far.
Macchu Picchu...what can I say...was amazing. The place is just stunning and you can easily spend hours just walking around. We climbed up Huayna
Picchu (young hill) and got our postcard view from Macchu Picchu and afterwards we had the glorious idea to hike down to the temple of the moon. Not a good idea, because when you go down, you have to come up again!!! And to top it all off, it wasn't even worth seeing the temple, argh! After several hours of walking we went back to Aguas Calientes to wait for our train back to Ollantaytambo. In Aguas I managed to find a poncho (finally), wahey! Not as nice as my mother's, I complained and I was told I am too obsessed with my mothers poncho 😞
Our last stop in Peru was Puno at Lake Titicaca. We only planned to stay for 1 night but got the border opening times wrong and had to stay an extra night. Not the worst but certainly not the best place to be stuck in. We visited Uros, the Islas Flotantes (Floating Islands). They are made from reed and are anchored in lake Titicaca. It's quite strange to walk around them and you have the feeling you'll fall through at some stage. The trip was more a sales trip because on the islands w
e have visited they have set up little stalls to sell handicrafts, etc. Nevertheless it was quite interesting to see how the people live out there, if they still do live there that is.
Anyhow, we were off to bed early that night as we needed to get a bus early the next day to go to Bolivia.
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poncho
you must have had a magnificent trip,I am looking for a traditional poncho design. unfortunatly nothing here great photos.