Nazca Update

Well... We just arrived in Nazca after three days in the Colca Canyon. The trip was fantastic, only being slightly marred by a sociopathic American backpacker who seemed to take great pleasure in kicking puppies... As you will see from the photo´s the canyon was really like a great big valley with huge mountains on every side. On the first day, we descended for 4 hours, on the second we walked for 4 hours and on the morning of the 3rd we ascended for about 3 hours. Evelyn hired a Mule to ferry her up. It was most amusing. Our guide was a nice girl from the local town of Cabanaconda and she showed us numerous interesting things like medicinal plant, pre-inca storehouses and the like... She gave us some lightly fermented Chicha, which is a wheat beer that they make... tasty. There was also a museum of local artifacts including enormous blocks of natural salt, slingshots, looms, and utility pouches made of Bull testicles... In fact the tip bag was just such a ´sack´... we put a few Soles into the bull balls in gratitude and headed on our trek...

It´s closing in on the last leg of our Journey. In Nasca we will check out an ancient necropolis, and then fly over the Nazca lines tommorow morning... Then at last to Lima, to relax in the Posh neighbourhood of Miraflora before flying back to our North Atlantic Island...

I think Ev will be adding photos, and hopefully we´ll get that video working...

-Pete