Cusco, Bolivia and Buenos Aires

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After the morning in Machu Picchu, we headed down to Aguas Calliantes for a swim in the Hot (luke warm) Springs and later in the afternoon caught the train back to Cusco for a good night´s sleep back at the hotel.

Tuesday we did some tourist shopping and that evening had dinner with the Inca Trail gang (guinea pig is over-rated). After dinner we got the 10pm Bed Bus back to Puno and then the next morning continued through to the Peru/Bolivia border.

We had lunch in Copacabana and by 6pm we were looking for a bed in La Paz, Bolivia. We also managed to book a mountian bike tour for the following day going down what is statistically "the world´s most dangerous road". Ooooooohh.

Thursday we were hurtling down a dirt track filled with pot holes and cover by rocks, with 400m drops over the side for good measure.

On Friday we got our plane from La Paz to Arica to Iquique to Santiago to Buenos Aires. It was kind of the South American equivilent to the Cairns to Brisbane milk run, but in Airbus A320s. We got out of the airport at about 12:30am and Alvaro (Lundy´s friend from France, but who lives in Argentina, complicated I know) somehow convinced us that it was still early and there was plenty of time to go out.

To cut a long story short, we got home at about 5:30am, slept through to 1:30pm, got up, had some lunch and went to see a South Africa vs Argentina rugby game. Argentina got mildly flogged. We went out again that night, got home at about 6:30am and slept through to about 2:30pm. Great sleep pattern developing here.

We had the usual Argentinan sunday banquet the next day and thankfully got to bed early (1:30am). Monday we had a good tour of the city, including the widest avenue in the world (20 lanes + some extra bits) and the pink house, a la 'Evita'. Tuesday we had a look around the neighbourhood where Alvaro lived and caught the bus at 7pm up to Puerto Igazu.

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Photos

Mountain biking in Bolivia
These are all the survivers from our ride down "The World's Most Dangerous Road", plus 2 random kids. I remember someone commenting, this a little dangerous, isn't it - Duh.

No man's land
This was the first land border crossing I ever did, a bit of a novelty. We walked all the the way from Peru to Bolivia.

Bolivian border
Unfortunately the welcome wasn't for us. I think they were welcoming a big group that were driving expensive looking Volkswagon SUV's (all pretty matching silver).

Lunch in Copacabana
That's Copacabana, Bolivia. Not the Caribbean. Western food really is fantastic.

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[Deanna Sutherland]

Merry Christmas
Hey Andrew, I am so glad to hear you are doing well and you are happy!!! I hope you had an amazing holiday! Lots of love going your way! Love, Deanna