Had an increadible 10 or so days here in Peru. First, I went to the city of Arequipa and on the way I played BINGO on the bus. They play and the winner gets free return fare or something like that. Very funny. I didn't win, but I practiced my spanish numbers and was three numbers off. After I got into town I booked a tour to the Colca canyon, the deepest canyon in the world. The tour picked me up at 1:30am from my hotel and took us by local bus to the canyon. We had breakfast and started our walk, which lasted until 3 in the afternoon. We walked through some towns that are only accessible by foot and donkey. A five hour walk to the nearest town with a road. Increadible. That night we stayed in a hut with bamboo walls, a thatched roof, and dirt floors. Very cool. We woke up the next morning at 3:45am to start hiking so that we would have time for breakfast and still be able to catch the bus. We did make it, but when we got back into Arequipa that day I was quite tired and slept very well. One good thing about Arequipa is the pirated CD's. They are everywhere down here, actually, but I bought some here for 5 sols (about 2 dollars Canadian) each. A great value. My next stop was Puno, where they have the world's highest navicable lake. This lake is famous for its floating islands. The locals, to avoid invation by the inca's, built these floating islands from reeds and have lived on them ever since. It is quite touristy, but very fun nevertheless. My next stop was the Cusco, where I did the Inca Trail and saw Machu Pichu, the ruins in the photo above. I had a great time on the trail. It was tough, but I have certainly done tougher in Canada. The trip was great as well because porters carry all of your food and tents. My backpack weighed no more than 8 kilos. Fabulous. They cooked as well (the meals were fantastic) and had the tents set up when we got into camp. Comparable to club med. We got to Machu Pichu four days after we started the trip and the photo on this postcard does not do the sight justice. The only bad part was it was quite cloudy and only cleared off long enough to take a picture of the site. I am certainly glad that I bought a poncho as well, as it rained quite a bit. But I can honestly say that the past 10 days (I can't remember, when you travel this hard you can never remember what day it is) has been a highlight of the trip so far.