Hola, we made it to Cusco and it is such a beautiful place. We were sad to leave Eco Truly in the end, the people there are very lovely and the animals that Roo adopted wouldn´t fit in her rucksack so we had to entrust them to Uncle Ben, Aunty Corla, Barbs and the others to take over feeding duties. I know they are in VERY safe hands.
The journey to Cusco was another marathan (22 hours, but at an average of 30km p/h to avoid falling off sheer cliff faces. It made ventures to the banos (loo) even more precarious than usual (will explain in a mo).The scenery was/is spectacular here, and for lots of the journey we were above the level of the clouds. Cusco is really high up, and altitude sickness is something we have to keep an eye out for, except I don´t know what to look for - better check! We are planning to stay here for a wee while and be tourists. Having not met any native English speakers for 6 weeks, we´re now surrounded by them and there is now a dearth of native Spanish speakers, so my limited spannish is slowing ebbing away to being non-existent again, I´m back to dropping casually into French at times of linguistic pressure, which was what I was doing when I first arrived, but it is quite nice to be able to have an idea of what´s going on.
Talking of banos - both Roo and I have been sick, we´have giardia - not nice. It´s a little parasite that camps out in your intestine and is really common in places with poor sanitation (I googled it, can you tell? :) ), we had to spend a small fortune to have it diagnoised which is done by offering a poo sample in an egg cup! Dignity gone. So now we are both on anti-biotics and will be good as nearly newish in a few days.
We are planning to trek to Macchu Picchu in a few days time and then we´ll start our volunteering at the community recycling project in Cusco. We´re have internet access here too, which is nice, so please say hello if you get chance because we can reply.
Adios from Peru.
Loads of love to all,
Emma and Roo xxx
PS. Roo said to tell you, that we can´t put the frigging photos on, but we will perservere!
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