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Peru turned out to be two things for me: a country full of incas and full of parties. i had a good time seeing ruins and doing some great hiking to get there and after my adventures in ecuador, i was ready to relax and have a good time.

Yo yo peru

Andy Wunder
2007-04-19 22:22:36

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with security. she put bag covers not only on her big bag but also on her little bag. not only did she wear a money belt but she wore a james bond money case on her ankle. i even took a picture of that one. we hopped on a bus and headed south to ica. the bus was a local bus that made lots if stops on the way and had a huge change over of people. half way through the trip i had this really great realization. i had been traveling for 8 months and had been completely free of any type of problems. i had not once been robbed, held up, or mugged. i was lucky, but better than that i felt confident. i was doing it right. as i was having these thought i went to get something out of my backpack and was slapped with the realization that my bag had been stolen. i was sitting in the window seat with my bag in between my leg and the window and my friend separating me from the aisle. some clever bastard reached under my seat and pulled my bag out behind me and timed it perfectly so he could quickly get off at the next stop. i felt like a jerk for being so confident and making fun of my friend's apparently not so overdone safety concerns. i lost a nice jacket, a nice backpack, and my camera. i got lucky. i was wearing my passport and money around my waist and had for some reason taken my ipod out and decided to rest it on my lap. however, i felt the luckiest over my pictures. i had four months of pictures (the only copies) that i had been carrying around with me. three hours before boarding the bus, i mailed them home. i was lucky. everything, including a passport is replaceable ... pictures are not.

we hit ica and i headed to a police station to file a report for my insurance. after the incredibly dodgy police station that lacked even internet, we headed to the little town of huacachina. this little place was a real gem of peru. it was so cool and fun. it is located in the middle a bunch of huge sand dunes and the buildings were built around this little oasis. it was ...