Lost Camera, No More Zicam, Going to the Jungle
So the second day of the Inca trail, I got sick.
After a whole bottle of zicam which I brought with me,
I feel much better.
On the bus from Cusco to Puno, my
camera was stolen along with the brand new memory card
I had just purchased. Fortunately though, I only had
4 pictures on it. Now we´re safegaurding Dianne´s
camera like it´s a large diamond.
Arequipa was a very nice city, pity we didn´t get to
spend more time there. We met some nice people on the
tour through the Colca Canyon region. Plus we saw
giant condors and the deepest, actually second deepest
canyon in the world. The first deepest is another 5
hours through the desert where no one lives or goes.
After the bus ride back to Arequipa, we only had a
bout an hour to chill with our new friend Sofia at her
hostel called Bothy Hostel, very nice, before we got
on a 15 HOUR bus ride (!!!) to Lima. It wasn´t so bad
though, I slept for about 8 hours or more and they
showed movies which they played on the overhead
speakers so that you HAD to listen to them. We met a
nice guy named Ricardo who´s a tour guide and shared a
taxi with him. He also gave us the names of some fun
tours to do in Nazca and Ica if we have time.
Now, we´re back in the Lima airport waiting to go to
Iquitos. We checked our bag and were having lunch as
I was checking the status of all of my souvenirs. I
pulled some of them out of the bag and Dianne said,
“will they let you bring that on?” Then I realized
I´d forgotten to check my large dagger I had
purchased. It was then we both realized we each had
other knives in our day packs we hadn´t checked
either, so we had to go check my daypack with the
knives in it. We almost were going to Peruvian jail,
phew.
Now off to the jungle, will report back when I can.
Prolly not for another week.