It's 5:10 am and I can't sleep. Kimberly had to get up to use the restroom and I haven't been able to get back to sleep. She has because I can hear her snoring in the next room! Wow! I can hear a rooster off in the distance and I believe there must be peacocks nearby as I can hear them as well. I know David and I would be laughing about the bird sounds as there was many birds a few of the days outside my place and we would hear them in the middle of the night and they were SO loud but I love the fresh air.
Today we have breakfast, a cemetery and then a four hour bus drive to our next destination.
When do I get to try Cuy??!!
More later.
Much later. The next day in fact. When I got up yesterday morning and got ready I took a stroll around the grounds and checked everything out. It's a great hotel, even if out in the middle of nowhere and locked in. I heard many peacocks this morning. There were many fruit trees growing on the grounds. Papaya and lemon to name a couple. There was a llama and a white horse in the back of the grounds. A hammock and a swing set. I swung for a bit and visited the llama who was friendly enough. The pool was HUGE and blue and white. Stuck my foot in and it wasn't bad. Wish I had time to go in. Went over to the breakfast area and sat down to start in.
Breakfast choices were scrambled eggs, toast, fresh fruit, feta cheese, olives, jamon, corn flakes, fruit juices and choices of coffee and tea, including coca tea, which is supposed to help with altitude sickness. Again, it was a really good breakfast before we had to leave.
We first got to go to the cemetery tour. Yes, it was a long drive to the middle of nowhere and a very bumpy ride through dirt but it was worth it. It was called Zona Arqueologica Necropolis De Chauchilla. We had an additional tour guide for this portion and Kimberly says her name was Maria but I thought it was Tina. She said "Yeah" A LOT. Pretty much every sentence and it ended in a question. We had a little trouble understanding her as her accent was so thick but she was very knowledgeable. We saw a lot of mummies and there were a lot of skeletal remains everywhere. I was pretty excited that I got to touch a human skull. As some of you may know I have a big interest in cooking, brain surgery and FBI and forensic science. The fact that I was able to touch a human skull from the pre-Inca people (Nasca people) was a definite highlight of this trip. Every day on this trip I have highlights of things that happen or we come across that are just my favorites. It's great!
After the cemetery we were on the road some of the group decided do the flight over the Nasca lines. About 5 in total decided to go, including Kimberly and the rest of us were dropped off at a pottery making place near the Airport. There was a small dog outside the pottery place in which our other tour guided, referred to as Chocolatte. The dog was a light reddish brown in color so I thought it was more chocolate con leche. The dog was in bad shape. Looked like it had cataracts and had caca stuck to it's butt. Poor perro. Once inside we got to watch how they make the pottery. It was interesting but I'm not the biggest fan of pottery. We were done after about 30 minutes. We had to wait for the girls that did the airplane tour so after waiting for about 30 to 40 minutes more we were informed that we were going to get on the bus and drive into Nasca and go to the store to get some fruit. I first got some crackers, cheese, red wine and coca tea. I also bought some water. Then we went and bought fruit from the fruit store. I got some small bananas and a cherimoya fruit. Then we went to the bakery and I bought a cheese empinada. The funny thing is that I was able to help some of the British ladies on the trip with translating and purchasing. Me! That was a highlight. We then got on the bus and had to wait some more. We parked by a hospital and snacked a little. Then they decided we would wait by the airport. We got there and I looked around and saw a couple of people from our group sitting in a small plane on the Tarmac. I went inside the tiny airport and got a cerveza malta and looked around a bit. I bought some azul pajama pantelones for cheap! Finally, about 45 minutes later they were done.
I found out that Kimberly and Penny both got sick and there was no air on the plane. They both had thought of canceling out because it had taken so long. They all waited for hours, probably 3 in total and you only can see a few. At least they got to see more than the few minutes that we were up on the tower the day before.
We got back on the bus and drove for hours to our next destination, Puerta Inca but that's another story.
It was a long bus drive and we drive to a hotel that's called Puerto Inca. It's not a town. We had to take the bus down this dusty road for quite a ways till we got there. When we got there it was dark and a bit chilly. Our room was up many, many steps at the top of the hill. Luckily they took our bags up for us. We got settled in and were told that we could get dinner at the main area in an hour and a half. It was a long wait so Kimberly wrote some stuff on her computer but we had no Internet, wifi or TV. I started watching Up on my iPhone. When we went down for dinner I tried Kimberly's asparagus soup which was good. Sadly my fish was a tad cold but so hungry I ate it anyway.
I don't like to complain when I'm on vacation but I have to say this wasn't the place to stay on this trip. The room smelled a bit damp and moldy. There was no shampoo in the room and no floor towel. AND, that wasn't the worst of it.
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Long bus trips, smelly rooms, and Kimberly getting sick...didn't sound like a highlight day. But very cool that you were able to help those British women with the language! Still sounded like you enjoyed here and there though, despite some of the drawbacks.
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