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Written by Keith Rhoades
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Monday, 25 October 2004 |
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i am doing pretty good...though today was sort of a hard day. i think i am getting to old for these long bus rides. The good news...i have actually been smoking less since i got to peru....less than a pack a day! go figure.... i woke up this morning and Cesar made breakfast then we went to the bank to get my money squared away. he then took me to the downtown bus terminal in lima where i caught a noon bus to naszca......the ride was fun and interesting at first...but then it just got old. it took 7 hours to get to naszca. however, after heading south out of lima you enter the great coastal desert....i have never seen anything like it....it looked like the pacific ocean met the sahara desert...there was not a living shrub out there and only sand dunes. we occasionally stopped in small vilages along the way whcih touches my soul to see how the people live and the poverty is unbelievable. I will never complain again about having a studio apartment and 99 saturn!!! The bus then started climbing the high desert so I am at about 5,000 feet now.....i got off the bus and was swarmed by people for taxi, hotel, etc....but i knew where i was going and walked to the hostel...and asked to see the room befoer i made a decision...i did not want the costa rica cockroach experience again. i took a nice clean room with shared bathroom for $3.50! the people there were very nice and i booked my flight for tomorrow mornting at 8 am to fly over the nazca lines.....these lines in the sand date back thousands of years ago...some say it was aliens...but the main theory is that the natives drew them in the sand for religious purposes. i will be flying on a 3 seat Cesna for an hour. the tour cost $40 for everything...which is a good deal becuase lonely planet said $35 for just the flight. so now i am at an internet cafe and going to Pollo Rico for some chicken. Then try to go to bed and rest. Tomorrow after the lines i have a late bus to ARequipa as i begin to ascend the andes...i will adjust there for a day as i don{t want to get altitude sickness and there is a monastery there i want to see that is in my book "1000 places to see before you die"....naszca lines is in that book as well as machu pichu. well my friends.....i love being on my own for a while...the weather so far has been fair and my health has been excellent....take care my friend.with many warm thoughts and love
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Last Updated ( Friday, 09 February 2007 )
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