Archive for February, 2008
Finally in Peru, now to Cusco and the Inka trail
We arrived to cusco in about an hour and my mom’s friends were in the airport waiting for us. We were recommended to stay in a hostel near the main square. Cusco city is an amazing place that has learnt how to adapt itself to the huge demand almost all year. It’s one of the few citiies in peru with a strong foreign influence. It’s easy to find American and Italian restaurants.
We walked around and had some typical dishes. I signed up for the inka trail trip three days later, the sooner one. The next day we took a tour to the sacred valley with stops in pisac, ollantayrambo and chincheros. This tour took us the whole day. That night we took a bus to Puno city, 7 hours away from Cusco. We arrived at 5am and immidiately took a tour to Uros, the famous floating islands and then to Taquile a big island rich in traditions and folklore. We had a
gorgeous time with all the locals who showed their sympathy to us giving he presents and a dancing show after lunch. We got back Puno around 6pm and after a quick dinner we headed to the Hotel. The next morning I went back to cusco while my mom took a bus to Pomata, the city where she grew up.
Once back in cusco I got ready for the inka trail that’d start the next day. I bought all the essential stuff and went to bed early.
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Los Angeles – Day 3
The third and last day in los angeles I talked with Tim and we went to Santa Monica beach.
At the begining I regreted of wearing jeans and runners while he wore a swimsuit and thongs. Once we arrived to Santa Monica beach I felt much better and he started complaining LOL… why? Well you know it was winter up there and that day the sea side was very windy, a cold wind slapped tim who expected (as i did) a great a sunny say. It was sunny but the feeezing wind changed all. We had lunch at the pier he tried to get truckers wirh no luck.
Finally we ended up havinf coffee at 3rd avenue, a kind of boulevard in Santa Monica. Nice place that reminded me for a second Bourke st. in Melbourne with its chain if shops and the street shows that are presented. It was 5pm already so we went back to the hostel to do the packing as our flight was at 5am the next morning.
I packed quickly and, after a grassy dinner at Popeye’s, we spent the rest of the time at the tv room. By 1am the shuttle turned up and at
2am we were at LAX airport again, ready to get the Taca flight to El Salvador and then Lima 
The check-in process at LAX for taxa passangers was a completely a mess. We waited for a long time in every immigration step. Not sure if it was because of the time (5am) or It’s always like this in this company. We also met two austrlians going to peru for the inca trail too, we talked a bit with them while waited in the queue. Finally at 4.30am we got into plane and we were finally ready to leave USA towards South America. The immigration process was again painless (not thinking about the time we waited for the staff to get ready). We arrived at San Salvador airport at noon where we met these two aussies again and then to Lima around 7pm.
Unfortunatelly at this point we lost contact with the couple of Aussie guys. All I knew was they were heading cusco at 9am the next morning.
The feeling in the last hour before landing at Jorge Chavez airport was a mix of anxiety and uncertainty, two years out of Peru had been
enough and the plan was visiting family, friends and traveling throughout Peru. But again, these last 60 minutes were very special. We
landed at Jorge Chavez and I was stacked at the window watching every detail out there. Tim was also excited as that was his first visit to South America, in other words, great things were waiting for us.
I passed through the Peruvian immigration and after the baggage claiming thing I saw my mom and cousins out there. There are no words
to describe the feeling. Even though ive been in touch with my family via chat and video conferences ir was very special anyway… as it had to be, right?
I introduced Tim to my relatives and we took two cabs to miraflores. Tim had booked a room in a backpacker hostel so we took him to his new place and after swaping contact details we agreed to keep in touch if we dont meet again in cusco. I was meant flying to cusco the next morning whereas his flight to cusco was for like 5 days later.
We got to by cousin’s apartment and after a quick dinner I went straight to sleep as i was so tired after the long flying.
The next day, with almost no stops I took one of the first flights to cusco and the best traveling partner joined me, my lovely mom
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Un dia de surf
El sabado antepasado Grecia, una amica colombiana me paso el dato de un club de surf el cual va a diferentes playas cada fin de semana asi que me apunte de hecho. Desperte temprano ya que habia que estar 7.30 en Southbank. El dia se ponia prometedor ya que segun el pronostico iba a haber 34 grados ese dia asi que seria bueno. En total fuimos 7 personas, el lugar elegido fue Woolamai beach. En verdad la pasamos muy bien, yo volvi a retomar la tabla despues de mucho tiempo… jaja en verdad lo digo como si antes hubiese sido tablista y todo pero en verdad no. Hace 3 anios mas o menos, en mancora tuve mi primera y unica leccion de surf y luego intenarlo varias veces pude pararme. Esta vez al menos tenia que pararme de nuevo lo cual fue dificil debido a las condiciones del mar. La mayor diferencia entre este y manocra fue que en Woollamai las olas vienen una tras de otra asi que el agua es algo alborotada. Al inicio no le agarre el truco y como que las habilidades se habian ido pero luego intentarlo varias veces le agarre el truco de nuevo y pude pararme 
. Alex, un australiano que vino con nostros trajo tambien una bodyboard (las tablas chicas) asi que tambien probe suerte con esa… tambien muy bacan. Fue un dia de puro sol, buen ambiente…. de seguro volvere a ir. Aca las fotos de ese dia.
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De vuelta en Australia…. para surfear!
Ya han pasado dos semanas desde que regresé de mis vacaciones en Peru donde la pasé muy pero muy bien. El mayor problema que no tuve fue que al final el tiempo se hizo corto ya que hubieron varios amigos a los que no pude ver y algunos asuntos pendientes que tuve que cancelar sobre todo en Lima ya que al no vivir ahà sólo estuve practicamente de paso. En fin luego les contaré como me fue.
Lo que si les puedo decir que he regresado con las pilas bien recargadas y con ganas de sacar adelante las cosas que tenÃa pensado hacer. Estas dos semanas han sido excelentes, en reuniones con varios amigos, contándoles cómo me fue en Machu Picchu, Puno, Arequipa, Lima y Piura… ah si y en Los Angeles.
De eso también pienso hablar y dedicar un post entero. Ya he estado colgando algunos posts sobre las vacaciones pero aún flatan varias cosas por contar por lo que lo iré haciendo por partes.
La novedad que les tengo hoy es que mañana Sábado estoy saliendo a Woolami, una playa al sur del estado de Victoria a correr tabla. Si!, gracias a una amiga que fue el fin de semana pasado pude enterarme de este grupo y me puse en contacto con la organizadora el martes pasado, correos por ahi y por aca y me enteré de todo y como el siguiente paseo era este sábado, me apunté. Son ya las 11.43pm y es mejor dormir temprano porque mañana hay que madrugar y agarra energÃas para un dÃa de surf… nada mal!!!
Ya les cuento luego que tal me fue
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