After a couple of days on the Islands I was pretty worn out and it rained so I went to my room and watched TV. I had the best nights sleep I have had since I got here. I have been lucky with the weather so far it has only rained 3 times and always at night. Last night it was sooo cold we got hail. Tou remember the old show Nightrider with Kit the talking car and the Hof. Well it was on here last night, in spanish. Hof is as bad in spanish as he is in american. I ...

First of all the spelling. I have seen Titicaca spelt both ways with ¨k¨and ¨c¨. It seems to depent on the dialect and what school you went to but the majority here seem to be with a C. The night before we left I was walking around town and was freezing cold so tried to buy a pair of gloves. The old lady wanted 5s I said 3 she said 4 I said 3 she said 4 I said 31/2 and she let me walk. So I went back and paid 4s which is less than $2 so a barg...

I got to the bus station early this morning and the earliest bus going to Puno was Cruz del Sur and they gave me a deal that was 1/2 the price of the cheats in town so I booked it and headed off. The road to Puno is a bitumen road but it is like driving over corrugated gravel. Its the roughest bitumen road Ive been on in a long while. The first part of the trip goes the same way as Chivay so you go through the high desert. The whole west coast is desert. After a ...

Im back in Ariquipa after an amazing couple of day seeing the condors in the colca canyon. This morning while I was waiting for breakfast I went for a walk and the cathederal was open so I went in for a look. The cathederal is the big building that dominates the plaza and is 1 of only 100 in the world who can fly the Vatican flag. I walked around quietly looking at the huge organ, said to be the biggest in South America. and there were all these cubicles. All woo...

Hey danny You will see on your site I tried to post this there but these computers are sooooooooooooooooooo slow. Half the letters on the keyboards are missing and all the pop ups are in spanish, so I just keep clicking and hope for the best. I waited 15 min and it still didnt go through. I will delete this post in a few days. If you are interested you might be able to linke it or transfer it to your site So anyway this morning I was having a couple of chicha...