Wednesday, December 08, 2004

Cusco

So we left lima, and flew 1 hour to a little city calle cusco which has about 300,000 people. I really like this place. This is the place that all the tourists go before they go off to macchu pichu.

You would think that this place would be a tourist ghetto, and it is to a degree, but there is less big chains here than in lima. No starbucks, pizza, maccas or burger king.

We hit the main plaza today, and it went from sunny to rain in about 1 hour, and i almost froze to death in my singlet. We then hit the markets and got some real nice bargains on some souvenirs, which ill bring back and share with some of you lucky people.

currently jono and andrew are shitting themselves cos it turns out the area for our hostel in rio is quite dangerous and they are desperately looking for alternate accomodation...

really looking forward to the start of the tour of the sacred valley 2morrow, and a mini 1.5 hour hike to test our fitness before we do the serious 8 hour a day 3 day hike.

comment u fools.
holla.


8 comments:

unkoh said...

Yes master. I will post as you say...

Make sure when you go on the trek that you don't wear a top and come back all black.

Anonymous said...

take care on the hike and watch out for your knee! hope you don't totally kill it on the hike! be sure to take lots of pictures, can't wait to see them!

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Anonymous said...

p.s. oh and i want to be a lucky person, i want a souvenir! please!

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Anonymous said...

Gogo anon posting : D
dont die on the hike man hahahaha and take lots of photos~~~ T_T

Anonymous said...

choff says:

hey miles, couldn't access your site in china. damn censorship. interesting reading. alby running out after being vicariously hit on has been the funniest story so far.

Anonymous said...

Hey its Ri... hope you guys are having fun and are all well, havnt seen your posts or emails these couple of days, where have you visited? oh and bring me something back...hope you're all well taken care of where ever you are visiting and keep safe but still have fun!!
~Ri

Anonymous said...

Lewis Chung:

Great to see you guys are enjoying your exotic holiday ! Say hi to Jono and Andrew for me. Take care

Anonymous said...

matt lim says:

hey miles...haven't read your blog for a while
there's some great reading here!

sounds like you're having an awesome time, i'm extremely jealous.

you've got some great anecdotes, i'm sure those will come in handy in future.

Riding in a limo to your hostel. GOLD.
being approached by some random middle-eastern male. GOLD LOL

anyways, enjoy the craziness of hiking around macchu pichu.

i'll be reading regularly...