I arrived in Lima at 5.30 this morning, only to find that my luggage had been left at Heathrow...Not a great start to the trip! I met the other girls at Lima airport and for the final leg of the flight i got upgraded to Business class which was nice! they must have been making it up to me for leaving my luggage behind! The view flying over Peru was amazing and Cusco is much bigger than i imagined, and so spread out.
We got picked up from the airport at about 11.30 and taken to our hotel by Jess, who is the coordinator for the company out here. We went for lunch in "Jack´s cafe" which is run by an australian couple, and afterwards walked out in to a massive parade! It was amazing, a big band playing music, which i can still hear now and lots of adults and children dressed in amazing costumes, colourful dresses that twirl out when they spin. And for some reason lots of the boys are dressed as gorilla like things with scary faces.
There are these scary white knitted masks called "ukuku" which people are wearing and selling on the street.
I´ve been offered soo many massages and pedicures on the street that its already getting annoying!!
When we first arrived it was raining, then during the parade and still now is bright sunshine!
We are just going to relax for the rest of the afternoon and tomorrow we are booked on to a tour of the city in the morning. Then we are going to find out about starting spanish classes etc. and talk about what different projects are available to work on.
Jess showed us the bars where there are free salsa classes every night! We´re excited about that!
Hopefully my luggage will be delivered to the hostel tomorrow, i can´t wait for a change of clothes!
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ReplyDeleteThe wierdest thing is the amount of llamas sitting around on the street and wondering the pavements!
well all sounds pretty mint. except the luggage obviously. thinkin your gonna be loving the salsa. gonna be an expert when you come home?! im already jealous of what youve been seeing.
ReplyDeletehave fun on the tour. an good luck when you start spanish! xx
Sounds good to me (apart from the luggage of course) It's so ironic that the guy at the Heathrow check-in told us "you won't go anywhere without your luggage" So what did he know?
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I know, he had been so reassuring and it was all one big lie! When the guy in Lima told me about my luggage i started cyring and he was like "no no, no no, its ok" i felt so bad he was really taken aback!ahah x
ReplyDeleteI hope you have now been reunited with your luggage. I am very envious of your experiances have a great time.
ReplyDeleteI'm still wondering what they want with all those wandering Llamas
ReplyDeleteI can´t explain the llamas, or the alpacas (and yes i know the difference) They just live here, and people exploit them for money.
ReplyDeleteMy luggage safely arrived yesterday! i can´t believe how happy i was to see a rucksack! x
Do they make the Llama dance for money? I had a funny image wen u sed they 'exploit them'?
ReplyDeleteNo they just pimp them out. You find one on nearly every sreet conrner!
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