Peru- the game plan

I didn´t get internet access on my phone until this morning and I realized that it takes way too long to write articles for my blog from my phone. Not to fear, I´ve been keeping a detailed...you know if you know anything about me...journal about basically everything and many many articles will appear in the days following my return to the estados unidos. For now, I have a few minutes at an internet cafe while a friend fills out some forms for her college, and I´d thought I´d write some informal words about Peru. I type hesitantly, as this key board is Peruvian and might I say quite gangster, with almost half of the labels missing...so here goes.

After living four months in Chile, Peruvian spanish is music to my ears. They pronounce every letter (I can finally say gracias instead of gracia without sounding fooling). And none of the chilenismos/modismos. Don´t get me wrong, they were fun to learn, but it´s nice to speak that spanish I learned in class.

Peruvian music is not the same as regaton...it´s quite annoying actually. plus one for Chile.

Hostels are bomb in Peru...we´re doing 5 dollars a night for hostels...showers sometimes - and when we do have showers, some of them are electric and shock you...who thought up the electric shower?

So what´s been going on? Allison and I started out in Cusco, spent the night there and met some awesome travelers from Seattle...I hope ya´ll are reading...and then left early the next morning for Arequipa, which is the second largest city in Peru after Lima. There, we saw JUANITA, which was quite the site - a 550 year old mummy inca who was preserved on the top of Mountain Imato in the ice. You can still see her skin and her hair!

From there, we went to the second largest Canyon in the world (not second to the grand canyon, but another canyon in Peru) and hiked around some inca ruins and went to hot springs woo. The towns were touristy, but a little bit passed the touristy parts were very poor areas.

We returned to Cusco to meet Allison´s parents and sister for a few days, bused it to the sacred valley and spend the next few nights there. Over that weekend, we went to a traditional wedding in Allison´s host family´s town...quite a lot of gross food and we were obviously out of place, but there was a good deal of chicha to get passed that, and danced peruvian style for mucho mucho tiempo.

Tomorrow we´re heading to PUNO and lago TITICACA for some randevous and we may pass into Bolivia depending on the visa fees.

I´m out of time on this internet sesh sesh and I´m sorry this was a quite informal post...Thanks for reading and please feel free to email me or facebook me and update me on your lives!