Hello again, this time from Cusco, Peru!
I´ve spent the last week or so (loosing track of time here!) at Lago Titicaca, and it´s been very very beautiful!
I took a bus from La Paz to Copacabana, which is right by the lake, and spent the night there. The next morning, it was the Friday before easter (Karfreitag, I don´t know, what it´s called in English!), I climbed the sacred hill above the town with an incredible amount of local people- in fact, I was the only tourist! Up on top I lit a candle for my grandmother, who died 2 weeks ago, and watched the people saying their prayers and having little miniature objects blessed, because they hope to obtain whatever is blessed up there in the future. Then I took a boat to the Isla del Sol in the middle of the lake. A very beautiful, very quiet place, where apparently the Inkas built there first temples and worshipped the sun, before moving on to Peru. There I met Pim, a very nice guy from Holland, and after 2 days we discovered, that we have the same friends- he was waiting for Will and Freddy to return from the trance festival in La Paz and I was waiting for Andre, and we had all been staying in the same hostel there!! It really is a small world...
So Pim and I spent 3 days on the island, hiking, looking at the archeological sites and actually SWIMMING in the freezing cold lake!! On the fourth day we returned to Copacobana, as there was no internet on the island, and we expected the boys to be there by now. And sure enough, an hour after getting there we met them on the street! We spend an evening "celebrating our reunion" , just to split up again the next day. The boys wanted to see the island too, and Pim and I left Bolivia for Puno, Peru. There we looked at the "floatin islands" and finally had our laundry washed, and I had my first Alpaka steak, which was actually pretty good!
Then we took an ENDLESS bustrip to Cusco, where we arrived yesterday after midnight. Our hostel is an old farmhouse, way up on a hill overlooking the town.- Very nice, but a lot more expensive than Bolivia! We were starving, so we went out to eat and drink at a bar, which is why the day today didn´t start until 1pm! After breakfast we -again by chance- met Andre Will and Freddy out on the street! Now I´ve spend pretty much the whole afternoon in an internet cafe and am getting really annoyed!! I´m going off now to meet the boys and -probably- to have my first taste of guinea pig! Next up is Macchu Pichu, probably tomorrow or the day after that! It is still freezing cold in the night, but by now I´ve stocked up on alpacka sweaters, socks, hats, etc., so I´m alright! I´m afraid, I´ll have to stop uploading fotos on this blog, it takes for f**king ever!!! I´ve uploaded most of the pictures on facebook, which is much faster, so please take a look there (mom and dad, I´m sure, Juli will help you there!!).
Ok you all, I hope you´re still enjoying spring time and are all healthy and happy :-)
Love you, miss you and think of you whenever the breathtaking scenery gives me a chance!!!
I´ve spent the last week or so (loosing track of time here!) at Lago Titicaca, and it´s been very very beautiful!
I took a bus from La Paz to Copacabana, which is right by the lake, and spent the night there. The next morning, it was the Friday before easter (Karfreitag, I don´t know, what it´s called in English!), I climbed the sacred hill above the town with an incredible amount of local people- in fact, I was the only tourist! Up on top I lit a candle for my grandmother, who died 2 weeks ago, and watched the people saying their prayers and having little miniature objects blessed, because they hope to obtain whatever is blessed up there in the future. Then I took a boat to the Isla del Sol in the middle of the lake. A very beautiful, very quiet place, where apparently the Inkas built there first temples and worshipped the sun, before moving on to Peru. There I met Pim, a very nice guy from Holland, and after 2 days we discovered, that we have the same friends- he was waiting for Will and Freddy to return from the trance festival in La Paz and I was waiting for Andre, and we had all been staying in the same hostel there!! It really is a small world...
So Pim and I spent 3 days on the island, hiking, looking at the archeological sites and actually SWIMMING in the freezing cold lake!! On the fourth day we returned to Copacobana, as there was no internet on the island, and we expected the boys to be there by now. And sure enough, an hour after getting there we met them on the street! We spend an evening "celebrating our reunion" , just to split up again the next day. The boys wanted to see the island too, and Pim and I left Bolivia for Puno, Peru. There we looked at the "floatin islands" and finally had our laundry washed, and I had my first Alpaka steak, which was actually pretty good!
Then we took an ENDLESS bustrip to Cusco, where we arrived yesterday after midnight. Our hostel is an old farmhouse, way up on a hill overlooking the town.- Very nice, but a lot more expensive than Bolivia! We were starving, so we went out to eat and drink at a bar, which is why the day today didn´t start until 1pm! After breakfast we -again by chance- met Andre Will and Freddy out on the street! Now I´ve spend pretty much the whole afternoon in an internet cafe and am getting really annoyed!! I´m going off now to meet the boys and -probably- to have my first taste of guinea pig! Next up is Macchu Pichu, probably tomorrow or the day after that! It is still freezing cold in the night, but by now I´ve stocked up on alpacka sweaters, socks, hats, etc., so I´m alright! I´m afraid, I´ll have to stop uploading fotos on this blog, it takes for f**king ever!!! I´ve uploaded most of the pictures on facebook, which is much faster, so please take a look there (mom and dad, I´m sure, Juli will help you there!!).
Ok you all, I hope you´re still enjoying spring time and are all healthy and happy :-)
Love you, miss you and think of you whenever the breathtaking scenery gives me a chance!!!
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