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Hey Everyone!! Well it certainly has been a while since we updated this, we have the wonderful nature of south american internet providers to thnak for that!!
That is also why we are not able to put any pictures up at the minute....... hopefull very soon though.
We are in La Paz Bolivia at the minute, just arrived here tlast night but we are heading off to Sucre tomorrow. Not before going to see the local wrestling!!! ha ha!!
Since we last updated we have done a whole lot of stuff! First off was the Lares trek to Machu Picchu! It was an amazing experience althought i am not sure jo thought her first night under canvas would be in the rain in the andes! The first day of the trek it decided to snow! Not a regular occurance and one you would think i may be happy about but no! Snowboarding in snow cool, hiking into driving snow not cool!
We met some local quechua people in their homes and climbed over 3 passes of over 4000m altitude, top one at 4500!!! It was amazing!!
After 3 days hiking we caught the bus to olantamtaybo to get the train up to agua calientes which is the town near machu picchu. Stayed the night there and headed up for the bus at 4.30 am!
Machu Pichu was outstanding! Crazy to think it was only 500 years ago, i thought it was alot older!
We hung out in Cusco with the guys of our trek for a couple of days then headed to Puno. Kind of a hole but its where you get to go to see the floating REED islands and isla taquile on lake titicaca. This was a great day out, cant beleive that up to 9 families live on an island about 30m across made out of reeds!On isla taquile there was a festival going on which was very cool and very colourful!
We moved on to Copacabana next, lovely little place still on titicaca. had an awewsome hostal with hammocks to sit in the sun!! from here we headed to isla del sol for the day. Great day and a cool little island! We got the slowest boat in the world back to the mainland.......welcome to bolivia!!
Last up we headed to la paz yesterday! The drive into this place is unbelievable! Its all on the sides of a huge canyon!! Beautiful but we arent feeling the love of the big city vibe so we are heading to sucre tomorrow.
Wretling tonight first though!! woop woop!!
Big Love Paul and Jo XXX
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