howdy ppl! i am back from the lake and into a somewhat normal cilivilisation not so filled with ppl wearing giant bright coloured skirts, living on floating islands in the middle of nowhere. Enjoying the sweet mercy of a shower once more and hearing music from pretty musicians as they prepare for tomorrows carnival. Cuzco day!!! Art students have made giant pappermache skulptures, they really go out wearing thousands of their tradational comstumes, shall be interesting!
but anyway.....Lake Tittikaka....really pretty, endless sunny days with eaqually cold winds, travelling on boats made out of reeds. so pretty! It's a large lake with about 4 different islands in it, that bourderes both Peru and Bolivia. We walked up one of the islands and it was 4500m high.....higher than Cuzco! cuzco is 3000m and Machu pichu is 2500m :) needless to say i cound feel the alltitude kick in and found it pretty hard to breath, i had 3 nosebleeds within 20hours after coming back down from the mountain. pretty viws....pictures as soon as i can get them up.
later that same night we arrived at the island we were to sleep over at, we stayed wtih a hostfamily who gave us traditional clothes that we were to go party in up at the plaza a little nearby. needless to say i looked more like a dieing darth vader wearing the black clothes over my head against my pale face with no make up :P it was a great experience but i wasa little let down. ther ewqere no lamas!!!!! the search for them continues, at least i nkow of their exsistance in macchu pichu.
Anyhow when arriving back i felt pretty dizzy, like ther was oceanwaves in my head and got a slight fever. Over now though. thank goodness. enjoy life ppl with everything it has to offer you!
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