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WOW!! Adrenalin rush flying over the Lines of Nazca. Up at 5 am, our driver
Erneso drove us 2 hous down the coast of Peru. Very dry, sand everywhere lik the Sahara Desert. Extreme poverty - no sanitation, living in straw shacks. One of the side effects of Diamox (for altitude for Cusco) is you have to pee alot. So poor Ernesto was constantly looking for bathrrooms on our 4 hour drive to Ica.
After 2 hours of driving along the coast,we headed inland and it got vey hot. We arrived at Ica airport around 10am and had to wait 2 hour for our flight. The people coming off their plane before us looked a little wild eyed, pilot said "it's a little bumpy". So we got on the plane and the pilot did the signs of the cross over each of us, himself and the plane!! GULP. We take off and right away we drop several feet (feels like Tower of Terror at Calif Adventure). Each pilot pets the plane like for good luck!!
Meanwhile,the 2 young girls behind us are heaving up bag fulls!!! Now we come to the Lines of Nazca - they drop down very low and turn the plane completely sideways (Like we're gonna flip) so we can get good pictures and video. They are weaving the plane round in circles so we can get pictures from every angle, this only makes the 2 girls throw up more!!
After 1 1/2 hous of pure adrenaline rush - we head back and land safely at the airport. I posted a few photos taken with my iphone but the better photos are on my good camera which I will have to post when I get home.
We had an uneventful 4 hour drive back to Lima where we met our pals, Mary & Yamila at Larcomar in the nice section of Lima and their Peruvian friend Susy. This area of Lima is very nice, on he water, looks like La Jolla or Santa Monica. We ate at a great Chinese restaurant (there are many chinese and japanese living in Peru).
Mary & Yamila spent their morning relaxing and the afternoon on a historical tour of Lima that they thoroughly enjoyed.
Back at the hotel with only 3 hours of sleep - we crashed and hit the bed.
Victor & Hardy, DMR & Cynthia all arrived safely and we met up with the whole clan at breakfast this morning at 5:30am.
So off we go to LAN AIRLINES to check in, right off the bat, Maggie can't find her passport and they tell us that they oversold the flight and only 3 of us could go, while the other 5 have to wait for a 10am plane!! GULP.
Maggie finally finds her passport and Lan tells us it's because we didnt check in online which (of course) they never told us that and it doesn't say that ANYWHERE on their website (that they'll sell your seats if you dont check in).
So DMR, Cynthia and I all go to Cusco - but we are PISSED. There are at least 15 empty seats on the flight!! So they LIED.
Now I'm sitting in our room in Cusco, hoping that the other 5 will get here soon, supposedly they left on a 10am flight.
The altitude here in Cusco (12,000 feet) is quite overwhelming. I'm very lightheaded and just relaxing til our friends show up.
MUCH MORE LATER......STAY TUNED.
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