12 Dec 06
We get up early.. we want to see a bit today. First the ruins where we are staying in Olly, then bussing thru to the outskirts of Cusco for some more Inca ruins. it might work...
The day starts extremely well. A young dude, traning to be a tour guide offers to show us the ruins for a tip only.. This sounds dubious... but he turns out to be incredibly onto it, with excellent English, and more enthusisam than you normaly see in a guide (except
me of course..haha). He tells us it will take 1 to 1.5 hours... and 3.5 later we almopst regretufully say good bye. He cannot charge whil in training, but we give him a pretty solid tip and wish hime well.
The bus thru to Cusco goes surprisingly smoothly too. When we get to the ruins know to gringos as ¨sexy woman¨we hit a snag though. The ticket we´d bought this morning we were told would cover both sets of ruins... but it doesnt. The young bird who tells us this gets a right earful from Sara... which eventualy works..(!) After all the agro though, the ruins are pretty lame !
Walking down the hill into town the heavans open and it seriously pisses down. We huddle under a protruding rooft0op, and are invited in to a local shop to stay dry. Conversation is predictable enough.. they dont have a cue where NZ is. Explaing it is south, parallel with South America, and near to Australia doesn
t ring any bells either.
In the eve we post 14kg of stuff home. This feels damn good! Our bags are now both less than 10kg. We are trusting the Peruvian postal system cos DHL etc are just rediculously expensive. So fingers crossed... only cemi confident at this stage...
We get up early.. we want to see a bit today. First the ruins where we are staying in Olly, then bussing thru to the outskirts of Cusco for some more Inca ruins. it might work...
The day starts extremely well. A young dude, traning to be a tour guide offers to show us the ruins for a tip only.. This sounds dubious... but he turns out to be incredibly onto it, with excellent English, and more enthusisam than you normaly see in a guide (except
me of course..haha). He tells us it will take 1 to 1.5 hours... and 3.5 later we almopst regretufully say good bye. He cannot charge whil in training, but we give him a pretty solid tip and wish hime well.The bus thru to Cusco goes surprisingly smoothly too. When we get to the ruins know to gringos as ¨sexy woman¨we hit a snag though. The ticket we´d bought this morning we were told would cover both sets of ruins... but it doesnt. The young bird who tells us this gets a right earful from Sara... which eventualy works..(!) After all the agro though, the ruins are pretty lame !
Walking down the hill into town the heavans open and it seriously pisses down. We huddle under a protruding rooft0op, and are invited in to a local shop to stay dry. Conversation is predictable enough.. they dont have a cue where NZ is. Explaing it is south, parallel with South America, and near to Australia doesn
t ring any bells either.In the eve we post 14kg of stuff home. This feels damn good! Our bags are now both less than 10kg. We are trusting the Peruvian postal system cos DHL etc are just rediculously expensive. So fingers crossed... only cemi confident at this stage...
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