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So we woke up feeling rather worse for wear after a spontaneous night out with Jess. Such an amusing way to spend our last night in Puno and met up with lots of other groups also travelling with gap around Peru. I swear this girl knows everyone! Anyway we were up early to leave for the airport as the protests were in full swing. After several attempts at travelling along the main roads it was a no go so our journey along roads which seemed like we were in the outback began. It was very bumpy. Not sure this was what our stomachs required after several margaritas last night, but this was the first of our problems on what seemed to be a never ending journey.
As the car journey had taken longer than anticipated we had missed check in for our flight (it hadn't left, stupid airline just being a pain). Anyway so we were directed to another flight.. only to find 2 seats available for a queue of about 20. No good.
Plan b- get on another rickity old bus for 5 hours to fly out from another airport. Let's go!
Only another bump in the road ( quite literally) meant that the bus we were now travelling in had a rather large puncture- was a rather uninvited wake up call from my nap! And the driver had no jack to put on the spare tyre! A failed attempt at using the rocks scattered around outside to hoist up the bus meant that we were left amusing ourselves looking at the shrubbery. Fortunately a lovely van stopped to help.. damsels in distress? And once again we were on our way! Wahoo! Hopped on the flight and back to Lima no prob!
Fun day! Sad to say goodbye to Jenny, Ian and Jess as we are jetting off to Miami tomorrow!
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