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The Cultural city of Cusco, Peru
Vic and I took a tour bus from Puno to Cuzco which allowed us to see a couple of Inca ruins, a museum as well as the Sistine Chapel of the Americas (the only problem was, NO photos in the museum and Chapel) but it was a great tour! We arrived in Cuzco and decided to stay for a couple of days before heading to Machu Picchu.
We stayed at …
Machu Picchu .....On top of the World!!
Had a really good day 2day! 3 hours of 1-2-1 spanish lessons and feel like im finally getting somewhere and can at least understand maybe more than I can speak now!
This afternoon i visited a new project im going to be working on for the last week im here with Ricardo, Cathy (Project Director) and a couple of other volunteers. I got an …
Tell the Incas We've Arrived!
It was 05:30 in a world somewhere between sleep and consciousness. Nearer the sleep end of the spectrum, in fact. A man's voice broke into my darkening journey. In Spanish. What? My blanket was taken from me. I was awake. It was dawn. Again. On a bus. To somewhere.
Collecting my thoughts I realised we weren’t due to arrive for …
Machu Pichu
... meal helped us a lot!, Every meal was 3 course and the chefs catered for my vegetarianism and Kel's gluten intolerance with ease. We were also stoked on the second night when the chefs whipped up a mulled wine for us as we had all been pretty desperate for a drink! While we all had a few niggling issues throughout the trek, most of us survived in tact and without any major complications. My biggest problem was dealing with tummy cramps because as ...
South America continued
... and of course under the commonwealth banner. We moved on from the office to head to the disembarkation point for our trip on the Amazon. We were dropped off at some street markets. This in itself was interesting as we wandered through this market place. Similar to other market places throughout other countries but the produce of course slightly different. We had our first glimpse of the famous piranha ...
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