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aintbrokeI am in Cuzco right now (And I can´t figure out if it ought be spelled Cuzco or Cusco, one is English, one Spanish, both stupid looking.)
Things I have learned, now that I am going into my last week in Peru:
Boa constrictors are perhaps the most threatening things in the known universe. They start growling, and before you even realize it, your feet are pulling you very quickly in the other direction.
It is probably terrible of me to now want one as a pet, but there you go. Creepy animals that growl at you? Sign me up! (Strangely enough, I´m not a big fan of dogs. Figure that one out.)
Five weeks in Peru and I have finally learned to say ¨Palta¨. I´m also pretty good about saying ¨Mani¨ but I take these lessons with a grain of salt, as soon I will be back in the land of avocado and cacahuate.
I spent the last seven... eight... lots of days out in the canyon of the demon river. (The Apurimac canyon is the deepest in the world. I can also testify that it´s preeeeetty steep.) We climbed two vertical kilometers over twenty horizontal kms. We did this, partly because my family is insane, and partly because there were some highly interesting ruins out there.
Choqueirow was the biggest Inca city for about a hundred years, and they´re in the process of digging it out of the cloud forest. (Fun fact: were you aware that Inca was a title? I had always wondered how they could determine that so-and-so was the last Inca, and now it all makes sense.)
Choki´raw (How much do I love that no one bothers to standardize Inca spellings? A lot.) is huge and amazing, and watching them reconstruct it out of the mountainside was just... wow. Next time, you come too.
My last entry backdated, for joyous and stupid reasons, so I´ll post a link to it here. Just in case. Yeah.
Things I have learned, now that I am going into my last week in Peru:
Boa constrictors are perhaps the most threatening things in the known universe. They start growling, and before you even realize it, your feet are pulling you very quickly in the other direction.
It is probably terrible of me to now want one as a pet, but there you go. Creepy animals that growl at you? Sign me up! (Strangely enough, I´m not a big fan of dogs. Figure that one out.)
Five weeks in Peru and I have finally learned to say ¨Palta¨. I´m also pretty good about saying ¨Mani¨ but I take these lessons with a grain of salt, as soon I will be back in the land of avocado and cacahuate.
I spent the last seven... eight... lots of days out in the canyon of the demon river. (The Apurimac canyon is the deepest in the world. I can also testify that it´s preeeeetty steep.) We climbed two vertical kilometers over twenty horizontal kms. We did this, partly because my family is insane, and partly because there were some highly interesting ruins out there.
Choqueirow was the biggest Inca city for about a hundred years, and they´re in the process of digging it out of the cloud forest. (Fun fact: were you aware that Inca was a title? I had always wondered how they could determine that so-and-so was the last Inca, and now it all makes sense.)
Choki´raw (How much do I love that no one bothers to standardize Inca spellings? A lot.) is huge and amazing, and watching them reconstruct it out of the mountainside was just... wow. Next time, you come too.
My last entry backdated, for joyous and stupid reasons, so I´ll post a link to it here. Just in case. Yeah.
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Date: 2005-07-20 01:30 am (UTC)ps. peru sounds wonderful and i want all kinds of details when you get back. and i get there. and we are together.
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Date: 2005-07-23 11:19 pm (UTC)ALso, I totally got you the stupidest thing in the universe yesterday. You will love it.
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Date: 2005-07-20 03:29 pm (UTC)