29/5/98
Buenos amigos
Well here we are finally in Cusco in Peru and resting our bones after doing the Inca trail…
Peru is an amazing place and much more civilised and organised than Bolivia and the streets are generally cleaner and everything is nice and happy…. so far anyway!
The only drawback so far is that even though they are a much richer country than Bolivia, and even though they obviously spent heaps of money on nice bathrooms… for some stupid reason they don’t believe in toilet seats and there is nothing worse than plonking your bum on a cold altitude chilled toilet rim!! We’re actually considering buying a toilet seat and strapping it to the outside of our backpack… with the wok of course!
Ok now that that is out of my system here’s what we’ve been up to….
We crossed into Peru via Copacobana (where music and fashion were always the passion) …which is a small resort village on Lake Titicaca.
The lake itself is huge about 350km across and all at about 3600m in altitude. It’s surrounded by fantastic Inca terraced hills and is dwarfed by snow-capped mountains and the waters are the most amazing blue colour…. all very tranquil…
From Copacobana (where music and fashion were always the passion), we went to Isla del Sol, which is also known as the Island of the Sun, and the birthplace of many of the Inca legends… Continue reading
