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Happy New Year to you all!
Hope everyone who went to Solar had a great time!!
Kim and I were out last night on the booze - the first time since leaving England - got in at 4.30 this mornin - not feelin so great at the mo. Liverpool 3, Arsenal 6 - santo dias!!
Well we had a pretty quiet New Year. New years eve day we went to Carral, a recently discovered site and the oldest ruins in South America - hardly anyone has seen then yet, so it was good to go there. Later that day got to Nasca, camped, celebrated the New Year at GMT and at local time here - yippee - upset Marg our Aussie friend though, as we did´nt celebrate the Aussie New Year earlier that day - soz Marg!!
New Years day flew over the Nasca lines - awesome! Not content with building amazing cities, fighting the Spanish and each other, the Inca´s found time to do some doodling in the desert - sweet!
Camped on a beach and bust my ear. Sawing wood can be dangerous, you can cut yourself. I did´nt. I had finished sawing a piece of wood for a camp fire, and had cut through enough of it to snap it, simple enough. I stood up to snap it by stamping my foot on it. Whathappened next can only be described as mind-blowing! The wood flew up and hit me square on the side of the head, right on my ear and knocked me to the floor. It hurt bad - my ear swelled up immediatly and went blue - yes there is a photo of my ear. Everyone found much hilarity in this - ha, bleeding, ha - as did the locals - its bad enough being 6ft 5in when the average South America is the size of a barstool you do tend to get noticed but more so when you have one enormous blue ear as well.
Island of birds and seals. Known as the `poor mans Galapagos´ these islands are teaming with birds, sealions, crabs and more. The Spanish used to collect the bird muck to sell as fertiliser from these islands. They are not very big and you cannot go them, you just stay in the boat, just as well really as the smell of fish and bird muck is certainly quite intense. This will not be apparent in the photo´s. Worth visiting just take a peg.
Sand dunes - bloody brilliant - they are the future, I have seen it! You should all go now to a builders yard, beach or fire bucket and steal, buy, borrow as much sand as you can and pile it up in a heap. then get a small surf board and slide down it or drive your car up it as fast as possible - you won´t regret it. What am I talking about I hear you cry - check the photos!
Trekking over the Andes - fantastic - got altitude sickness and had an upset tummy - lost everything, on the morning of a 9 hour trek, had some peanuts later that day and vomited, started losing me marbles a little so had to ride a mule for 30 minutes. Kim had a migraine that day too! LOL. Other than that trekking over the Andes was amazing, our guide, Smith and all the others involved were fantastic - thanks guys! The scenery is so beautiful, well worth the stiff muscles, sickness, and delerium!!
Onto Machu Pichu - very impressive - if your in Peru, this is a must see. Train ride back from there was a bit bizarre - the steward & stewardess started doing a fashion show of alpaca clothes!! When you leave Machu Pichu , get the bus back down to the town - its well funny!
Off to Lake Titicaca and Isle De La Sol, in the next 2 days, then of to Bolivia, - yehaa!
Lots of love, Rick & Kim
PS
Inca Cola is great!
You can buy Inca and Che Guevarra cigarettes in Peru!
Sorry, someone else has the ear picture and the sand dune pics.
Yes, a pelican did bite me.
Kev, your 39 soon!
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