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Maybe not Gordon's last trip
Hope the windblown windbag in the picture doesn't upset anyone but I had to prove I had been there and, no it is not computer trickery although I have to say I had one eye on where the toilets were - re earlier postcard.
Since I last wrote they called a road strike down here on the major cities so we had to leave our hotel (having returned across the lake after nearly drowning) at 7.30 pm and drive till 2am and then get up again at 6.am to catch up with a group going to the valley of the Condors, which turned out to be a bit of a waste of time as we only caught a glimpse of a couple of said birds.............and at several thousand feet up, that really can only be called a glimpse. Remember that ad for the tobacco which finished with the 'hero'voicing "ah a Condor moment", well that was how it felt.
Heard one woman saying to her partner, "I am not sure if that is a bird or just more crap on my lense".
Anyway, I now have a few hours in Araquipa to look for Alpaca (Vicuna is out of the question at $1,500 for a sweater!). Everyone seems to be selling baby alpaca wool as if to suggest the entire country was running wild with camel like animals prepared to give their all to the wool industry!
As, the moths got most of my best cashmere sometime last winter I might just have to treat myself to something special for tomorrow - my birthday in case anyone of you has forgotten!.
Example of Peruvian humour.
The Presidents of Bolivia, Chile and Peru are flying low together in a fog buond plane when each one tries to guess where they are. Bolivian guesses La Paz, Chilean President assumes Santiago but to settle the debate the President of Peru sticks his hand out of the window to return a minute later and pronounce with certainty that they are over Lima.
"How can you be so sure" ask the others.
"Easily" says the Peruvian,, "I have just had my wrist watch stolen".
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