For three glorious weeks my man and I have been exploring amazing southern Peru. ....Like your tightest pair of jeans - we have squished&squeezed and twirled&shimmied and have managed to stuff absolutely everything possible into a wild 3 weeks of magical travel! There has been absolutely NO stopping us! Not the weariness of long distance travel, not physical exhaustion, not sickness, not cold showers, not early mornings, not the language barrier, NOTHING!! And I wouldnt have it any other way! There has not been a single dull moment - nary a travel frown in sight - how can there ever, ever be - when the first thing you do when you finish one brilliant, exciting adventure, is plan the next!
Our Sleepytime - 1 night Tacna, 9 nights Arequipa, 2 nights Colca Canyon, 1 night Cusco, 2 nights Aguas Calientes, 1 night Cusco, 1 night Puno, 1 night Lake Titcaca, and 2 overnight buses (thats 12 different beds in 3 weeks friends!!! sweet sweet sleep oh how we appreciate you!!!)
Our Adventuretime - 4 days of Spanish lessons, 1 day of sensational mountain biking, 3 days of incredibly impressive trekking in Colca Canyon, 1 day of thrilling adventure travelling to Aguas Calientes, 1 day exploring the surreal Machu Picchu & Huayna Picchu, 1 day information tour bus (with guide) Cusco to Puno, 2 days exploring Lake Titicaca and Isla Taquile and countless countless hours of walking&sightseeing
Our Tummytime - 7 different beers, 2 cocktails, 1 bottle of rum, enumerable cups of black coffee & coca tea, bottles of water, guinea pig, stuffed peppers, 4 different empanadas, 1 saltena, and moutainous amounts of bread& jam, potatoes, rice, soup, casserole, and chicken&chips....
Our Downlowtime - music, music music - wherever we are Nick´s ipod usually follows! And the joy it can bring to some travel moments is quite astonishing...It steals my boredom & fatigue and brings me a sigh & a smile & memories.... every....single.....time.....Best music moment - singing and seat-dancing along to Kings of Leon in the back seat of a rickety old bus, during a 6 hour journey, on what could be, the worlds most bumpy-belly-crunching road!
Highlight - Oh! Oh! Oh! Everything! Everything! Everything! But if I HAD to pick one - Huayna Picchu - truly magical.......
Lowlight - I didnt cope well at all with having a young boy with lepracy beg near to one of our buses. It really shook me.
The Bests of Southern Peru - As Voted By....Drum Roll Please.......Me!!!!!
Best Town - Arequipa
Best Journey - Bus To The Clouds (Cusco to Santa Maria - busing it local style!)
Best Achievement - Completing the trek out of Colca Canyon
Best Food 1 - Eating an apple at the end of the trek out of Colca Canyon
Best Food 2 - The pastries San Blas, Cusco, oh my word - deVINE....
Best Moment - Looking out from the top of Huayna Picchu
Best Fun 1 - Mountain Biking
Best Fun 2 - Dancing to old school spanish&western funk in a bar in Arequipa
Best Adventure - Walking the train tracks from the Hydroeletric Plant to Aguas Calientes
Three weeks. Three amazing weeks. If I typed all night long I couldnt write everything I wanted you to know about what we have done and where we have been and who we have met.
This is just the start of the journey.
My highlight -
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