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The Inca Trail
By Priscille Brisson | November 21, 2008
Buenos dias
So, we’re back with the penultimate update. One more of these and then we’ll be back home with the other 4000 photos, ready to do a 9 hour live-blog-bored-to-tears-athon to anyone who comes near us.
It’s been a pretty quiet week while we recovered from the Inca trail. The first stop was Nasca, just for a day, to see the Nasca Lines - giant drawings in the desert of animals and objects made pre-Inca, that can only be viewed properly from the sky. No one knows why the Nascas did them…. there’s a million and one crackpot theories, but no real evidence that any of them are true.
However, on getting to Nasca, I was unable to see the lines. In true “poor old” style I was incapacitated after the Inca trail by an infected eye, shredded thighs, a cold, and best/worst of all “reverse altitude sickness”. Apparently sometimes you can get bad altitude sickness when coming down from high altitude, if you’ve been up high for a long time. It basically meant my first migrane, which lasted for 42 hours. Only now do I truely understand, Jono.
Karin was fine, so she saw the lines and took some excellent photos under difficult conditions…. through a small window on a light aircraft that was bobbing and weaving non-stop.
After Nasca we caught the bus to Lima. Here Zoe’s friend from Hong Kong (Leigh) has been nice enough to put us up, helping us to do some much needed money saving and giving us a beautiful apartment to lounge around in.
We haven’t done much in Lima, just relax and save money in general, while hanging out with Leigh. The only thing of note we HAVE done is….tattoos. They are extremely cheap here (about twenty pounds for two hours work) so we both decided to get one to commemorate the trip. Each other’s faces? Karin & Don 4 eva? Reev’ole’s face perhaps? You’ll have to wait 2 weeks to see what they are.
One odd thing about Lima is the weather system. For one, it never rains - yes never. The year is split pretty much into two halves with summer (Nov - April) being sunny and fairly warm, and winter (May - Nov) being overcast, not too cold and humid. Instead of rain they get a mist that comes off the ocean and can cover the city, watering the plants in the process. Yesterday we were sitting in Leigh’s living room watching clumps of mist/ cloud drift passed the window!
Tonight we head up to the almost equatorial beaches of Mancora, for 3 days of beach holiday style relaxing (my black umbrella is at the ready). Then it’s off to the Galapogos for a Darwinesque safari, which will be the bulk of the last update….
More to follow next week!
Don & Karin
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