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Mountains, mountains and a few more mountains!
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Ive changed my entry now so i can get get yet another map pin yay! I shall now describe how tiring my weekend has been...
Saturday - today we got a bus (i.e. psycho combi van with loads of people on it) to tambomachay which is the ruins of a sacred place to water. I shall put some pictures up but it was very nice, up in the mountains with the stones carved to channel the water from a spring into a kind of fountain. We then went down the hill a little to puca puccara (excuse the spelling i no longer have my guide book, i shall explain why soon) which is ruins sacred to the earth. It was quite cool, we paid a guide we met on the combi to show us around. There was a little carving in the stones which is supposedly a carving of machu picchu, thouigh i wasnt sure. We then follwed the path shown in our guidebook (i hate that book) which bypassed the road and we everntually ended up in another place but i cant remember the name of it. It was a huge rock in the middle of some fields and there were amazing views from the top. we then got rather lost trying to find the next place in the book, qenko. Im not entirely sure we ever did find it, we did end up in some ruins so maybe...and then we got lost again (i really hate that book, we followed thepath it described to avoid the long way down on the road and got lost so muich) the eventually we ended up at sacsayuhuaman (sexy woman) where we saw the big statue of jesus like the one in brazil but not so big. there was loads of really impressive ruins to, i was not keen on the tunnels though, being claustrophobic and scared of the dark...i got a bit freaked out...it took hours to do the walk, we didnt realise how long it was to do and we were rather tired when we got back...a sleep was required before we went out to a bar called mandelas (as in nelson) where there was a band playing kind of rock andean music with lots of drums, pan pipes and an electric guitar...it was cool!
Today - we decided to go to Pisac for the ruins and the big market that is every sunday. We got a bus that was so packed you could hardly move! We got to pisac and started of up the mountain to the ruins. We followed the guidebook for 30mins, got completely lost, went back and started again. Followed the guidebook for 3 hours up really really steep paths (i so nearly died it was not funny) then got to the top and asked some locals where the ruins were (this was supposed to be a short cut) they laughed at us then we realised we were on the wrong f###ing mountain with no way to get to the other one with the ruins. bugger. Rich got rather cross and hurled the guidebook off the mountian...that is why i no longer have it. We walked back down and had some food then wandered round the market. It was ok but we cant even go back to see the ruins without buying another tourist ticket that is like 35soles...its rather annoying and i am very tired....oh well i start at the hospital tomorrow so i shall go now until then!
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Aug 20, 2007 10:58 EST by alocin
And so the moral of the story is - never trust guidebooks...
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what an experience! (reply)
Aug 20, 2007 05:43 EST by dcolling
Well what can I say you certainly are getting around even though its killing you doing so. Just think it could have been much worse if it hadnt been the book he'd thrown i'm glad I wasnt there it might have been me learning to fly!
Love Diana x
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