After Lima we headed south to Ika and took a cab to a small town called Huacachina. It´s a little town in the middle of the desert that has a small lagoon. There´s all this life that´s sprouted out around the water. Plants palm trees and of course hostels and restaurants. The main attraction is sandboarding. We rented sandboards from an old man who told us to call him Señor Lengua (Mr Tongue) because in addition to the sandboards he told us old Peruvian legends about Huacachina and Cusco. The sandboarding turned into sand sledding due to fear of a broken appendage at the beginning of the trip. Still very fun.
After 3 days of lounging around Huacachina we took our first overnight bus to Cusco. The bus was very classy complete with movies pillow blanket and meals. The scenery was unbelievable. Our main mission in Cusco was to book our Machu Pichu trek in June which we accomplished. After we did that we wandered around the city. We wandered very slowly due to the altitude, which took about 3 days to get used to. I didnt mind an excuse to relax and walk slowly around a city. I loved the vibe of Cusco, people have a lot of pride in their city, when you ask someone if they´re from Peru they would say Soy Cusceña (I am a Cuscan). Kind of like when if you asked a Texan if she was from the United States.
As far as food goes Peru is famous for guinea pig and alpaca meat. Well we wanted to try guinea pig so we ate it the woosy yet delicious way- at a fancy restaurant in the form of a cheesy potato croquette. It was delicious, might be brave enough to try it on a stick on my next go around in Cusco. Another one of my favorite things about Cusco are the jugo ladies (juice ladies). At markets there are rows of jugo ladies with all sorts of fresh fruit that you choose what you want and they blend it fresh right there.
Currently in La Paz Bolivia will do another post soon about touring islands of Lake Titicaca which we did last week. Next up for us are the salt flats in bolivia. Thanks for all the warm emails and messages sure do miss all of yall but am still loving this travel lifestyle. It is so fun to wake up and not have any plans and live in the present and soak up whatever the day has to offer.
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| Diane and I hiking up the hill pre sandsledding |
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| Sunset over the lagoon in Huacachina, yea it really is this pretty |
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| Katrina, Brigid, Diane and I in Cusco |
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| Baby Alpaca in Cusco! |
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