Sudamericana

We watched the last minutes of the game from a Heladeria (Icecream place) in Cuzco as it was storming outside. The first storm to experience on this continent. Uni got the cup, btw.

So tomorrow we are setting forth to visit Machu Piccu sometime in the morning, and this will be a brief post as we need to rest. Go, Serban and Calin (in this order) drove for 17 hrs straight from Nazca to Cuzco. Hail the heroes and la Reina de Cisne!!! On map, its looks unimpressive, 600 kms which in theory, if the road is good, could be covered in 6 hrs or so. The road was good, however, we didn’t make allowance for driving though the Andes at 5000 meters altitude-try breathing, let alone driving, plus the road was very very wavy and last but not least we encountered neblina, which sounds like a type of pastry but its actually fog, deep and wet fog… at 3 am. We also encountered an upside down car, which had three people by the roadside, all ok, whose first words were “we’re not robbing you, we had an accident”. We left them our flashlight.

We slept for a few hours today and did some sightseeing, Plaza de Armas; I don’t think we’ve been in a city yet that doesn’t sport a Plaza de Armas. I took some pictures of some girls in traditional costumes who had a llama baby to be petted and held by touristas – for a few soles. Later on, looking at the pictures and consulting with the team, I found out the bloody thing was a lamb…

I will end this with a noteworthy mention of my bravery and superior fitness (benchmarking with Serban). I conquered my anxiety and fear and flew over the Nazca lines in the tiniest plane ever made, the team and the pilot only. The stuff dreams are made of, or in my case – nightmares. La lineas de Nazca are really cool, way better than on tv and I felt really special seeking them how they were meant to be seen, from above, and not from Wikipedia pics . I can’t speculate as to why they were made, and there was this German mathematician lady who spent her live measuring and analyzing them and no solid theory. And, to add to my superior fitness of body and mind, I wasn’t sick at all!!!

This is it for this evening, more to come as we trot on. In reduced team from now on as Calin, the photographer, will be leaving tomorrow morning – have a safe flight.
D.