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19/10/06: Pete learns that you cannot eat a pineapple with a spoon. Though A- for effort.
Still 19th, still in Lima. Took a tour of the city. Best part was descending into the catacombs of St. Francis´church where we got to see lots of compartmentalised bones. Most disturbing were the skulls! Thousands of them (shudder).
Still haven´t got used to the roads. Basically people drive however they want in any direction. Sometimes 8 or more lanes of cars and quite often at least one person pushing theirs!! When your car is still people, especially kids, try to sell you things, or just do breakdancing and back-flips in the middle of the road. Fascinating, and not even scary anymore!
Haven´t been ill yet, and even ate in a Chinese. Had to be up at 5am to go to Cusco on friday. Flight was brilliant because it was over the Andes the whole way.
21/10/06. Cusco is high! 12,000 feet so it´s a bit hard to breathe. I made us walk up a big hill as soon as we got here so that I could take photos of the houses, or rather sheds, and nearly killed Pete... a small price to pay i think...
Anyway, we´re basically in the mountains. It´s still as dirty and polluted as Lima, but smaller and much less modern. It´s like a big shanty town apart from the centre square.
Liking the Coca tea we have to keep drinking so that we don´t die! Unfortunately it doesn´t make you high no matter how much you drink... Discovered that sleeping bag fights, or any form of exercise whatsoever, is potentially fatal in this altitude... Inca trail (which goes higher and higher and covers 40km) is going to be interesting.
We´re here for a couple more days till we venture off into the mountains. Hoping to go paragliding but the weather isn´t great. It even rained today, how rude. That´s about it for now.
¡Hasta luego!
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