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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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it was only for backpackers and i was happy of it. during the day we would relax by the pool. afternoon would come about and we would hop on a sand dune and go sand dunning. the dune buggy would stop for some sand boarding and the sunset. huacachina contained only one real bar where the 20 backpackers at huacachina would hang out. this bar was really cool. apparently the owner was a big pot head ... every night he put a big bowl of pot out free for the smoking. there was a baby monkey that ran around the bar and loved being played with. i loved playing with him until he bit my finger and i was afraid he gave me rabies. by the time i left huacachina, i knew everybody that worked at the bar and every other backpacker in the town.

after huacachina i headed farther down the coast to the nasca lines. the nasca lines are these ancient and mysterious crazy designs that have been drawn into the desert sands with rocks. there are aliens, birds, monkeys and huge lines. these drawings are so big they can only be seen from a plane. so i did just that, i hopped on a plane. it was pretty cool. after the flight we went to this cool planetarium where we learned that all the lines matched up with the star constellations. we headed out to use these incredible telescopes to check out the stars. ironically, it rains for 20 minutes a year in this part of peru and it was raining for the 20 mins i was trying to see the stars.
that night we moved further south and headed to arequipa. by the way, i left the english girl in huacachina and in arequipa i meet up with a girl from colorado. we spent the next week or so traveling together. the two of us had a really good time together ... she was like a big sister. arequipa was a beautiful colonial town. however, it mainly served as the base for a hike down into colca canyon and a place where i would be able to buy a camera. so, we spent some time checking out the sites and organizing our tour into colca canyon.

colca canyon ...