Wednesday, April 8, 2009

Catchup Cusco and Puno

After a long day of exploring we caught the train back to Cusco. It was a long ride, and awfully uncomfortable. We went to dinner at a place called Los Perros just around the corner from the hotel. I had an amazing plater of humus and breads and all kinds of veggies. I didnt feel too well after it.

Slept until 9-30am, did laundry and had breakfast before heading to explore. I showed claire the inca wall street, Lorenzo and we sat in the plaza for a while. We finnaly found the McDonalds we had heard about from a friend. Its desguiesed in a beautiful old building in the Plaza. While sitting, some little girls came over to sell us fingerpuppets. i was intrigiued and asked what they had. They proceeded to name all kinds of animals; crocadile, parrot, condor, and the best of all , Puma con Baby. i laughed then bought three.
We went for lunch at a popular Australian run restuarant but we all felt under the weather and didnt really enjoy our meals. I then went to the internet with Natalie, a girl from the tour. we spent 2hours laughing at photos and didnt manage to get anything done.
On the way home we stopped to take comical photos of the lightposts that had puma faces on them.
We had a group meeting at the Los Perros place again, i had Mashed potato! the best kind. Then we went to Mama Africa, a bar in the plaza. We were quite early so there was just people milling around. but it was happy hour so everyone ordered a few... not me, i was on antibiotics still. We hungout there for awhile then headed to another bar we had heard a lot about... Mythology. As we walked in Im Too Sexy was playing and there was a strobe light...i refused to go any further . we left and i went home and left the others to find a decent bar.

Bussed to Puno at 7am. I slept most of the way , but the landscape that i saw was very impressive. there were green fields and lots of donkeys working hard. We stopped at the highest point in the trip, 4338metres above sea level.
The view of Lake Titicaca when we were coming into Puno was vast. The water was really blue and the houses were all made of mud brick so were brown like the soil they were built on. At the top of one of the hills there was a huge statue of a puma. ...The story behind this will have to wait until another day, because im too tired to finish this now.

Only a few days behind now. Ill sort that out tomorrow.

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