Daniel Ortega Linda Foubert vuelta al mundo

We have spent one month visiting Peru and it has a very very interesting things to visit. The North part is quite good (we have to say that we did not visit the highest mountains (6700m) in Huaraz and Amazonian region in Iquitos or Chachapoyas) but the they can´t be compared (except maybe Chan Chan city, the biggest "Adobe" city in all over the world, built in 10th century with 20km2 of temples and houses) with all the beautiful things that there are in the south part. Outstanding is Cuzco region, with Cuzco city, the Sacred Valley of Incas and of course, Machu Pichu. Wonderful! Also Nazca lines (Dani was a bit white during the flight, but everytinh ended just fine!) and Huacachina oasis were quite good (if you don't like the snow neither the sea, that doesn't mean that you cannot surf! We've done it on sand dunes!! That was great, and I still have a nice bruse since then...). You have to experiment the 4000m altitude that there are in Titicaca lake and of course you have to go to Colca Canyon, with 3100m depth (well, if you get lucky you might see something from up here, because we haven't, to much fog downthere!).

On the other hand, we have to say that it´s pity the kind of thinking of Peruvian people. They are always trying to dribble and to cheat you and this is not healthy at all, at least for us. Not only about the price, for example, they say that the bus goes straight to the final destiny, then there are 8 stops. They say that is a semi-luxury bus, then you can´t even recline your seat and the whole bus stinks!. They say that you should take their taxi because the bus costs 10 soles and starts in 3 hours, then the bus costs 6 soles and starts in 10 minutes. It´s hard, trust me, very hard... You can visit Peru with everything already packaged from Europe but the price will be double. Also it is still a bit "before", I think in 15 or 20 years Peru will be much much better. I would recommend everyone to visit it (with its excelent history and its natural diversity), but at the moment, I would not go back and it´s a pity because it has a lot of interesting things to visit. We are now in Chile and things have changed a lot, but this is another story...

Food is fantastic, it's smell good everywhere in the street... First I thought that we would be on a "unavoiding diarea" so that we would loose weight. Well, it was just a dream, after our stomachs 'got use to the change, and "they're right back on their feet!"

We could write a book just about water here, when we need some, we don't have (specially to take a hot shower or just to go to the ... you know...). But when we don't want some, we get to much! (inondation in the room - all my clothes got wet - water balloons through on us - Carnival...!

We are turists and we're ok with this! But the shame is that the other ones have also noticed... and they are divided between laughing at us or trying to get more $ from us... But most of them are quite nice, so, a well...

Finally, personal details:

- Cost: 625 euro per person per month. Quite good taking in consideration that our budget is 600 euro, or not very good if we consider that Peru is the cheapest country within the first 6 months... But we really, really lived weel, this first month... I think we'll have to reduce our "confi staying" in the next future.

- Lost: 1 sun glasses:

- Roberies: A Swiss knife - yeaaa! mine! Just arriving in Lima airport, all my bag was opened with my clothes showing off! They've opened everything! First day! It's going to be a f%$¨Ç*%$ trip!).

- Illness: 3 diarreas and 1 Soroche ("high illness"), without consequences.

- 1 "room flood", without consequences (of course, it wasn't his clothes that got all wet!!!).