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
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