Hello! It´s Julia and I am writing in Nasca after seeing the Nasca lines in a light airplane. After reading a lot of press about plance crashes here I was a little anxious, but v pleased to have seen them and be back on the ground in one piece. I love hearing all about the anthropology and history of the Incas and Nasca people, but I won´t get into it, except to say that it is fascinating how the Nasca people created these lines.
I am in need of a bed and a shower, sadly I won´t be getting either until tomorrow afternoon. In order to make it to Cuzco in time for our Inca Trail, we´ve been on the move most nights on night buses. Thankfully the buses in Peru are much nicer than Bolivian buses so it´s not as bad as it could be! (For those who don´t know, we´ve spent 20 hours on a night bus in minus 20 with broken window in a cramped bus that smelt of urine. Fun times!) We´ll be in Cusco tomorrow in time to support Gina and Man U for her big game.
Copacabana was beautiful and Lake Titicaca was HUGE! We took a cruise to Isla del Sol and I think I got 2nd degree burns on my feet from the damn sun! First glimpse of sunburning sun in a while! Jane, Gina, Hannah and I had picso sours as the sun set. Lots of fun!
La Paz was one of my favourite places. The city was amazing (I´m keen to go back for longer) but it was also the last city we had with our crew. Missing Anrew, Jack and Fabiano already!
We tried to get our way into the infamous prison to no avail but at least we had lots of chocolate to go through when it didn´t work out. We stayed at Loki, where eveyone told us to go, and I am please to say that it lived up to its reputation!
Bolivia was such an amazing country. There were beautiful sights everywhere! Volcanos, salt flats, lakes, snow capped mountains... the list goes on. It is amazing to see so many cities with mountain capped backdrops. The people are also lovely. We´ve been fascinated by the local dress of the elder Bolivian women. They wear amazing, colourful skirts and bowler hats. A man aparantly imported hundreds of bowlers hats and when men wouldn´t buy them, he sold them to women telling them it was the latest fashion in Europe. It has become a status symbol, but it is interesting seeing the hats never actually fit!
I´ve added a few pictures from the trip, some from BA, San Pedro and La Paz.
Hope everyone is going well at home.
Lots of love
Jules
xox
Tuesday, May 20, 2008
Saturday, May 17, 2008
Saturday, April 26, 2008
We´re lost again
Julia: Since arriving in South America we´ve spent more time lost than than we care to share, but as we´ve always said, getting lost is the best way to get somewhere you´ve never been. So Hannah and I have kept following pretty and shiny things all around BA. (Corinne, you´ll be proud, we´ve now got a map!! but only because it´s on the back of bus tour´s advertising which someone randomly gave us).
BA is an amazing city. There are many beautiful cathedrals and monuments, some of which we´re pretty much oblivious to the significance, but we´ve taken photos of the plaques with intentions to work out the translation. Our Spanish has been improving. It´s not actually that hard to read it, but that hasn´t really helped us. We´re got the essentials down.
BA should take Paris´reign as the city of love. Everywhere you look, couples are coonoodling. We also found it strange, that at night, where ever you look, people are sifting through garbage, not bums getting food, no, they´re removing the paper and plastic so they can recycle - strange, particularly since the city is covered in a thick line of polution! But don´t let that taint my description of BA because it´s beautiful and we´re loving it here.
Hannah: So six hours after going out to find some food and a quick drink, vowing to get an early night to beat jet lag, we find ourselves with no food but quite a few drinks realising that Hannah´s bag with passports, cash, camera etc is missing (We had another realisation that night - they serve BIG drinks in Argentina). Then we spend the next 15 minutes drunkenly trying to explain to our new Argentian friends and strangers and generally panicing. Luckily for us someone must have looked kindly on our stupidity and handed the bag into security! Yay! And that was just night one... and we didn´t even tell you all the moments from the plane (well since i have the power of the keyboard right now i might just mention Julia´s classic moment of forgetting she was wearing her seatbelt and trying to stand up!!lol)!
While on one of our first lost missions around this city we found ourselves in a street swamped with police cars and what looked like SWAT trucks all there in response to a student protest.. a High School student protest. As the oldest person there mst have been about 16 we were´nt too sure what the police we were about... until we realised today that they have a LOT of police offers, they usually travel in packs of about 5 or 6 and smoke whenever they feel the urge. We have great photos of a police car that is older than and smaller than Mr Beans car.
Julia: As it is Saturday night, I´m sure we´ll have more stories of stupidity tomorrow.
x
BA is an amazing city. There are many beautiful cathedrals and monuments, some of which we´re pretty much oblivious to the significance, but we´ve taken photos of the plaques with intentions to work out the translation. Our Spanish has been improving. It´s not actually that hard to read it, but that hasn´t really helped us. We´re got the essentials down.
BA should take Paris´reign as the city of love. Everywhere you look, couples are coonoodling. We also found it strange, that at night, where ever you look, people are sifting through garbage, not bums getting food, no, they´re removing the paper and plastic so they can recycle - strange, particularly since the city is covered in a thick line of polution! But don´t let that taint my description of BA because it´s beautiful and we´re loving it here.
Hannah: So six hours after going out to find some food and a quick drink, vowing to get an early night to beat jet lag, we find ourselves with no food but quite a few drinks realising that Hannah´s bag with passports, cash, camera etc is missing (We had another realisation that night - they serve BIG drinks in Argentina). Then we spend the next 15 minutes drunkenly trying to explain to our new Argentian friends and strangers and generally panicing. Luckily for us someone must have looked kindly on our stupidity and handed the bag into security! Yay! And that was just night one... and we didn´t even tell you all the moments from the plane (well since i have the power of the keyboard right now i might just mention Julia´s classic moment of forgetting she was wearing her seatbelt and trying to stand up!!lol)!
While on one of our first lost missions around this city we found ourselves in a street swamped with police cars and what looked like SWAT trucks all there in response to a student protest.. a High School student protest. As the oldest person there mst have been about 16 we were´nt too sure what the police we were about... until we realised today that they have a LOT of police offers, they usually travel in packs of about 5 or 6 and smoke whenever they feel the urge. We have great photos of a police car that is older than and smaller than Mr Beans car.
Julia: As it is Saturday night, I´m sure we´ll have more stories of stupidity tomorrow.
x
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