I'm sooooo happy. I was planning to do a illegal border crossing to Bolivia because of the streak. It's been a mess over here. Protest and demonstrations, six peoples were killed the other day. BUT today they solved the problem so the border is safe and I can cross in to Bolivia ! Celebrations today. Woohooooo ! :) - satisfaction.

A day with rafting was fantastic. Wasn't more than a 3 grade river but still fun. Was 42 of us so loads of peoples to chat with. Me gusta ! We started of up river where it was calm, got more rough later on. My boat was the smallest one, even better because it's faster ! Woohooo. We were five and one guide.  And we even stopped for some cliff jumping on the way. Not that high but whatever..  The water is freezing. God ! We were provided wetsuits, jackets so i survived. Good fun. Enjoyed it and I'm happy that I finally tried. Remember I wanted to do it in Australia and New Zealand in 06/07 but never got the thumb out my ass. Now it's time to sort out my way to Bolivia. Buena suerte ! - Aaaaaajiaaaajaaaaah ! 

Cuzco is lovely. A bit touristic but sweet. Very safe and I just love walking around in the small cobblestone streets bumping in markets and small shops. I've done a week of Spanish, oh yeah four days only. Didn't do very well, have to study more and stop my heavy partying. I usually understand what they are saying but I can't speak to them. I'll get in to it !  Had fun at the course at least and that's the most important.. This week it's been the inti rami, the incas festival of the sun, they all dress up in there lovely colorful dresses and customs. Play music and dance on the streets.  They eat loads of guneapigs during this holiday, around 30.000 is getting killed. They have them all over the streets stuffed with a peppers in there mouth. Grows and really different, specially when we have them as pets back home. The other morning when I crashed in another hostel where I had some friends staying J woke me up with a guneapig in my face. Man, that was a different waking up. Fun thoe, so I just had to taste it. Was like chicken but a bit more like slimy fish meat. I won't eat it again, it just feels wrong.. This Friday was the last day. They have a huge celebrations at the main square. Dancing and then they sacrifice a lama at the top of the hill. It was definitely worth staying here for the festival ! Happy to.  Right now I'm stuck in Cuzco, it's been strejks of all the borders of south Peru. So I just can't get to Bolivia. Flights are redicilous expensive to. Supposed to leave today but they cancelled my bus. Seams like they are going again so maybe. But just maybe I'm off. You still have to make a illegal border crossing by boat too. I don't really want to do that part by myself because it's really dodgy but if I have to I have to. I'll work it out somehow. You always met someone :) been hanging out with tons of different peoples over here. Someone new everyday. Love it ! So, tomorrow I have a full day of rafting. Fucking awesome. Looking forward to it. - under the pavement.

Salkantay walk to Machu Picchu. Got picked up at four in the morning. Fucking noisy canadians kept me awake.. Wasn't a good start with half an hour sleep and still could feel the altitude. Cuzco is at 3300m.. We drove for a couple of hours, had breacky and kept going. Loved my group straight away, Mark, KeV and Oggie from the UK and Mike, Tasha from Canada. Nice and small. :) The first day was gonna be the hardest, we walk up beside a glacier at 4600 m.. The views was the best I ever seen. I got really sick thou, the altitude hit me really hard. Got fever, dizzy, wobbling, puking.. Horrible. My guide tried to put me on the emergency hours but I refused. I was there to walk. In the end I collapsed so I HAD to go on the horse. We walk for the hole day, arriving after dark. I was exhausted and felt like shit. Went straight to the ice cold tent for a nights cold sleep. We were speaking next to the snow ! At least I was happy seeing snow again.. Woooop ! As the next coming days we went up early, between five and half six every day. Second day was better but till wasn't in the best shape. This day we started to decent, camping at 2500m.. Still cold ! The third day was one of the best, the vegetation change to more jungelish and I felt like a human again. Being up in the front, laughing and enjoying my ass off. Find a cool kind of zip line with a cage on at a high of at least hundred meters over the river. We all went out one at the time.. Freddy our guide had never even seen it. Fuck that was fun ! Played football at the camp sight. Heavy at that altitude.. The fourth day we climbed up a mountain called Llactapata at 2700m. Started at 1900m. Took us two and a half hour. A bit heavy but great. Started early so it wasn't to warm ( even thou it's winter.. ) amazing views when we got up there and we got the first glims of the Machu Picchu. The terraces ! Th We were all tired after seven hours of walking so skiped the last straigth and boring dirt road to Aguascalientes. Tooked the train, so we had time to enjoy the hot springs. Good need after four days of walking. Last day we went up at three in the morning, queuing for the bus to Machu Picchu. The is only 400 tickets each day walking up to Waynapicchu so we had to be there early. Thanks to Freddys big que jump we got the tickets,, ! Getting in to Machu Picchu was brilliant. Loved it. It's on a high of 2400m and in a really good shape. Can't believe they built that big inca city at that steep hight. We walk around, and went up Waynapicchu at half ten. ( after a short nap in the sun.. ) not every day you have a nap at the MP. Waynapicchu is only 400m up, nothing for us.. Haha. Really really steep, so one millimeters stepp wrong can cause your life. Sweating getting up there but the views over MP was sweet and just being able to walk around the ruins looking over the side of a mountain being able to fall down at any second gives you a got damn puls. I took my saved special bottle of rum that I've been saving since the el dorado distillery in guyanas with me on the trip. No one complained about that ! iii. Aguascalientes was very turistic but we all liked sitting down eating and playing cards waiting for the llate train to Take us back to Cuzco. The salkantay is a big recommendation from me. Loved it ! Such a cool walk, and MP itself is worth to see. One day I'm gonna do the real incatrail, arriving at the sungate. But that's a next trip taking plan.. That's all for now, do what you do it's just a matter of time. - You're jumping around my head. Keeping me busy. Now, in Cuzco, waiting for Nick and Lou. Hanging out drinking coffee and chilling. Partying to of course.. Starting my Spanish course tomorrow. Looking forward to it !

Hucachinna, four km outside Ica, is Hucachinna just a small oasis. Tons and tons of sand is surrounding it. Pretty cool. Found a cool hostel just next to the green lagoon and hanged out with Nick for my three days there, It's nothing to do at all, but both of us was happy about it. We did the sand buggy tour and sand boarding, epic. I loved it, it's like a rolercoaster in the desert. Definitely worth doing. We walk up on some of the sand dunes around, steep and heavy workout. Otherwise we played a lot of cards laying in the sun and chilling. I also hanged out with the locals in my hostels and they all gave me a salsa lesions. I'm the master now.. Haha no, not really ! At least I've made them all laugh.. :) Rigth now I'm in Cuzco, took a 18 hours night bus here. Suffered, couldn't sleep at all. Fuck ! Felt the altitude pretty bad yesterday, I'm on 3300 meters. I really love couzco, such a cool plaze. And Im staying in the biggest hostel in south America. Loki backpackers. Tomorrow I'm gonna do the Salkantay walk to Machuu Pichuu, a five day and four night treck. It's gonna be heavy but I'm sooo excited doing it. To see the inca ruins up there is gonna be amazing, It's cold here, winter time. Freezing during the night, I'm not used to this climate anymore.. The first night is gonna be minus.. Leaving four a clock tomorrow morning so no drinks tonight. Said that last nigth, was exhausted after that bus drive but ended up drinking and went to bed at half two. That's not gonna happened tonight, for sure ! Booked a week Spanish course that's starting when I get back. Hopefully I'm gonna learn a little bit, it's about time. Love Spanish. Yey. - Inca, Cuzco, Peru.

From Quito to Lima took us from late afternoon on the 2nd to 03.30 on the 4th Sunday morning. More than 1400 km.  Pretty tired at the time we got there and bored sitting in the truck doing nothing for those days, in one way I was ready to get off. Finally. But then there is goodbyes, which I hate. Love traveling but hate goodbyes. That doesn't go hand in hand at all. I had a great time being on the truck. All thanks to Adam, South America overland, who never gives up and doing the best for everyone. You are awesome !  And all the others giving me a smile. You're in my heart as a amazing memory ! Chilling out in Lima was sweet, seeing the elections on Sunday and just browse around beautiful miraflores. The nice neighborhood in Lima.  Watching surfers, skaters, drinking coffee, shopping and chilling. Hanging out with locals eating the local chebice - raw seafood cooked in lime and chili. Delicious.  Drinking chicha ( think it was.. ) a purple drink tasting like lemonade. Good impression.  And later on from jugos ( juice.. ) and coffee to shots, cocktails and beers. I don't have problems enjoying myself.  Now I'm looking over the brown, hilly, sandy landscape of Peru. Watching the big waves rolling in over the coast on my way to Hucachina.  - Salud !

We ended our trip and tour with South America Overland in Quito 1st of June.  Had a outstanding goodbye party at the strawberry swing bar even known as the Beatles bar. Cocktails, dancing and a lot more give us a cool evening.  I wasn't too happy waking up with a swollen wrist the next day. Apparently I fell somewhere during the night at landed pretty bad. Even now 6 days later it's still too big. Opps. It was worth it thoue, and that's the most important.  I know I didn't see much of Ecuador, but it was just the galapagos that tempted me and that's way expensive. Next trip I'll do it. If you don't leave you can never go back.. - memories.