SOoo... i i realied i have failed to inform you of what everyday life is like here. In cuzco and in peru in general they have tons on fastfood places serving just chicken! pojo. they love it. Taxis cost like s/2.50 to anywhere(that is like 9kr). musical festicvals all the time and everywhere. hardly anybody speaks english and they have tons of markets everywehre selling the same things, gets knidof boring but i love my markets anyway :P and its always a bit of a trip to get to a good bergain for something you want. normal stores for clothes and such are not as cheap as i thought, they cost about the same as in sweden, suprisingly :)
one must beware of ones goods, my bankcard went missing yesterday and i have no idea if i was pickpocketed or just left the cvard in the teller...anyway..be careful. A another volunteer in the house also got slightly beat up on his way home last last night, they took his wallet and cards, happened just outside our port. So don´t travel alone at night!
what daily life for me means for the next two months is a huge breakfast with fruitsallad, cereal, eggs, pancakes and bread at 7am each day, follows by two hours of spanish lessons and then volunteering up in the mounttains for 3 odd hours teaching english. then i will come home to a delicious dinner! we have cooks working around the clock for us and doing our washing and cleaing our rooms, feels a little odd but i can definatley not complain :P Somewhere inbetween i will be meeting up with a true blue peruan and we will practce spanish and english with oner another....ppl call this system a dating program, not sure i agree..haha.
then travelling on the weekends...next two weeks me and my roommate will be exploring cuzco and the sacred valley. talk soon but i will not be online much bc my schedule will be pretty filled up. keep me updated on your lifes aswell.
Tuesday, 22 June 2010
lake Tittikaka and it`s aftermath
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!
http://www.inkas.com/tours/jpg_files/jpg_photos/titicaca/titicaca_uros_boatman.jpg
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!
http://www.inkas.com/tours/jpg_files/jpg_photos/titicaca/titicaca_uros_boatman.jpg
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