Just a quick update to confirm that we survived the Inca Trail and are now the proud owners of two very ´lovely´bright yellow t-shirts that proclaim just that! I´ll be wearing mine to the slide show, obviously.....
Since arriving back from the Inca trail we have managed to meet up with Helene and Alex, A.K.A the lovely Norweigian couple that we travelled with in Costa Rica (during which time they beat us at Gin rummy again), see the Nazca lines, sand board down what I think is the world´s highest sand dune - Cerro Blanco, sand board down some smaller dunes in Huachina, visit masses of seals and birds at the Ballestas islands, take in a bit of Lima, visit La Merced and a ´native tribe´, make it to Puerto Bermudez where we trekked in secondary rainforest and watched people vote in the national elections ( we saw ´real´native families), and we are now in Puycallpa.
After the ´Cerro Blanco/Nazca Lines´experiences I´m just happy to still be here. I never knew that pilots could fly planes at the angles the guys piloting the Nazca line planes do, and whilst I knew that my finesse on a snowboard is some what limited, I didn´t know that landing on your head/neck twice at high speed in sand could hurt so much! Despite my mobility and my life flashing before my eyes in 24 hours I had an amazing time and despite my moaning about a severe case of dead leg, I think Malc did too!
I am being immensely lazy and attaching a link to the Nazca lines, as I think Wikepedia says everything anyone interested in knowing more about them needs to know. You might have to wait to the slide show for pictures as we seem to have had a ´sim card´related mishap and have been having some problems extracting the Machu Picchu/Nazca lines/Cerro Blanco pics from the little blighter.....arghhhhhhhh!
The plan now is to head into the Amazon for a few weeks before we fly home, so this might be one of the last updates you have to endure, lucky you! We fly to Iquitos tomorrow, where we are being met straight from the plane and heading off on a 7 night Amazon adventure and then we have several days of Amazonian travelling to get to Manaus in Brazil, from Manaus we hope to go overland to Caracas for our flight home. I can´t believe we only have a few weeks left, unless of course we get lost in the Amazon.......
A short update I know, but it´s hot in this internet cafe and this computer is driving me more bonkers than I already am! The last two weeks have been so jam packed with amazing experiences and lovely people, I´m not sure any amount of creative writing would be able to do the time justice anyway, especially with my writing skills.
We spent the last 3 days at the Albergue Humboldt lodge in Puerto Bermudez and if by chance anyone reading this is considering a trip to Peru make sure this place is on your itinery, the trip there from La Merced is crazy (crossing rivers in Combi vans and opening doors to let the water out....) and Jesus, whose house it is, is fantastic. Link attached!!
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