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Traffic on Pan-Americana Highway after huge explosion, I wrote before, was restored and I decided not to go through the head hunters (head shrinkers) territory. They probably have never seen a folding bicyclist and may have a temptation to shrink my head as a souvenir. Instead I started long bus ride to Lima, Peru. However, before I will continue let me finish with Ecuador.

Travel to South America (part II)

Alex Mumzhiu
2006-03-22 14:07:41

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more or less. Road was rough and I felt over the handle bar many times, but I am very good at it. This very useful skill, how to fall safely, I learned in the kindergarten (almost), in middle school.

I took the course of Russian version of judo, called sambo, where they endlessly drill this useful technique. The mountains around were astonishing, one in attachment. I get back home safe. In my spare parts I have extra bracket.

The next day I took night bus to Lima. I bought 3 tickets for rear seat for $6 each and sleep like a king. Lima is terrible. Entire city smells with urine. The only good thing about Lima, is that the yellow fever shot is cheap and easy there. I got one and now I can go to Brazil legally, shot it required.

Ale Mumzhiu
Pisco, Peru
Nov 29 2002 10pm

I am in the middle of the famous gringo trail, Pisca-Nasca-Cusco. For notorious language abusers like N.O. I would like to emphasize that the letter "S" in a word Pisca is hard, not soft. Nasco is also easy to remember because it is the nick name for NASA and has the same functions, communicating with remote galactic. I will tell about this later.

Pisco is the starting point for visiting Ballerians islands. These islands remind me of Swiss cheese, see attached picture. My wife, who is an architect, would love this design, a lot of skylights. The islands are a home for miriads of birds and lots of sea lions. The islands are covered with thick layer of guano and the strong smell of urine appears in the air before the islands appears.

Nasca is an attempt to communicate with other civilizations before radio telescopes were developed. People of a civilization dissapeared more than 1000 years ago drove into flat ground, the navigation signs, air fields and figures of animals a hundred to thousands meters long. These figures can be visible only from airplanes or space, not from the ground. I took 35 minutes, $35 ride on ...