Right I have been offline for a while because every hostel we seemed to go to the computer doesn't work or the germans sit infront of it for hours!! Anyway so I left you at Nasca. We woke up the next morning quite early because the hotel had a pool and we thought we could perhaps have an early morning swim as rachel daniel and josh got up to go running and skipping we wanted to feel fit aswell (me jess and lindsay) buuuut the pool ws under maintenance in the morning (haha) so we ended up lounging about getting ready sitting in our rooms and the hotel (wasnt a paticularily nice one but nasca is a bit of a dump...still was 3 stars!) anyway so then around 8.30 we got picked up with a little private bus with a tour guide to take us to the chauchilla cememtery I can tell you this I am soooo mummied and skulled out. I have never seen soooo many skulls and bones in my life I was like ENOUGH ALREADY....all the same..and they were very wierd because they all had reallllyy reeallllly long hair...and in some parts of the cememtery there was a random hand emerging from the sand in a claw like position with the fingernails and everything STILL INTACT i could noooot beliiieeeve it haha CREEEPY. And all the mummies and skulls were amaizingly kept (ew)...It was boiling hot and the guide told us that it gets up to 52 degrees in summer (ouch). After the looovely visit to the cemetery we got back on the bus and for those who wanted to they could get a plane ride over the nasca lines (for 86 dollars NOOO THANKS), go to the museum (which is like one tiny room apparentely for like 10 dolars (ahahaha pleaaseee) ooor the ption we went for (the three girlies) potter round the centre and buy some fruit to eat..and flip flops for me as my primemark pumps were slowly melting in the heat. We got picked up with the bus and the people from the museum but the people who were doing the flight were still at the airport. We got to go back to the hotel and sunbathe by the pool...This is when we met the man who owns a pub in whitney(jess and lindsay's village) what a small world!! anyway so we loungewd around by the pool until about 3.30 when we got picked up again to go for a a late traditional lunch called pacamancha it is literally food burried underground and cooked underground between banana leaves it was very cool!! and before we unwrapped it we had to do a small ritual throwing cocoa leaves and dropping some special drink on the heap of food made out of red corn??? apparentely its good ah well and all sorts of stuff then the man unwrapped it brought it all inside and we had a mini buffet. The food was actually increaaadible and probably the best dinner so far!! we went back to the hotel had a lazy afternoon evening getting ready for the hurrendous bus journey. At about 9 oclock we had to leave the hotel to go to the bus station where we found outttt that there were 4 places left in frist class and we could get upgraded for free. the canadians got 2 (because apparentely they are tall- watevs they annoy me) and the other 2 we had to play a game for me and rachel ended up winning (SOOO LUCKY I KNOW and also hilarious as we are the shortest ones in the group - rachel is shorter and a lot skinnier than me she is tiny yet EATS LIKE A MACHINE!!) and it was WONDERFUL we got bigbiiiggbigg leather comfy chairs...although both in first class and second they insited on playing the worst kind of spanish music you have heard in your life all night loing!!! and very loudly aswell...the speaker was right infront of us it ws awful but i was so tired i fell asleep pretty quickly (I have been sleeping like a log!!).
We woke up in AREQUIPA! the white city (because everyone used the volcanic rock - from the volcano misti how cute i know - for buildings so all the buildings were white, but also because the people who lived there had paler skin) ANYWAYS...arequipa is beaaautiful a very small city but very verrry populated. We arruved in our hotel a gorgeous hotel aswell basci but very pretty and put our stuff away cleaned our faces got changed and went on a little tour with daniel who showed us the main sights and were to go...then we all split up. We went to look for a caffee to have some coffee and maybe a bite to eat and found a really small caffee in the centre where they gave us a small glass of hot apple juice very nice I satisfied my coffeeee cravings and had a cappuccino which was lushhhh (they out cinnamon on top i do not understand theyir OBSESSION with the stuff its friggin everywhereeee) and other people had a strawberry juice and rachel had a huge slice of cheesecake which was nice..we then wondered round the city looking at the cathedral and the main square which is gorgeous. It ended up with just me jess and lindsay going to the supermarket to get some lunch together we ende dup buying pitta breads some cream cheese (the cheapest we could find) and some ham (which looked a lot like bacon we were scared it wsnt cooked but it was nice in the end) and ate it all on a bench in the main square...after that we wondered round some more looked at shops. it started getting quite cold though so we went back to the hostel and lounged around there went back out to get some water but generally was a lazy day. We were all meeting at 7 back at the hotel to go our for dinner, we were there earlier sitting in the lobby and one of daniel's friends comes in, louisa from australia, shes in her late 20s? anyway she was SOOO COOL, shes been travelling on her own for a very long time and meeting her made me feel so much better immediately and funnily enough shes doing roughly what i did but backwards and she gave me LOADS of advice and told me not to worry and talked about her travels. She was soo outgoing and so much fun I was immediately relieved and definetely a very strong perosnality I just hope that I'll cope as well as her!! (she also did patagonia and told me that its sooo easy to get to she went all the way down with a public bus!) We all went for dinne in an italian restaurant where me and lindsay shred gnocchi with bolognese and a small pizza...wasnt very good but ah well everyone else thought it was awweeesome so i went along with it!! I also had a pisco sour and my god are they strong! after that we all went back to the hotel to go to bed as we were getting up fairly early in the morning to go to the colca canyon.. I would tell you all about that but I am on rachels computer but we have a free day tomorrow in Cusco so hopefully I will get to write a bit more. However, I will leave u with this, appart from my stomach giving me the odd pain I HAVE NOT YET BEEN ILL!!! lindsay has felt faint and rachel isnt feeling great and the germans were very ill BUT III HAVE NOT BEEN!! the altitude in colca canoyon and arequipa (2300-4910) didnt afftect me OH YEAAAAH!!! MISS YOU ALLL
Love youuuu xxx
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