Tomorrow we leave on the hike to Machu Picchu and shortly thereafter on the kayaking adventure. Not sure when the next post will be after this one. I am slightly apprehensive about the latter. 12500 feet elevation and well below freezing temperatures with very basic home-stays as accomodation. The last time we really had such a "back-to-basics" adventure was when we went trekking in the Ethiopian mountains on the border with Eritrea. And this year is my 60th birthday !!!!
Mike and Maggie arrived safely yesterday so now we are six. Maggie was hit hard by the altitude sickness so we decided it must be in their genes as she and Sharon were the only ones really affected.
Toured various other Inca sites yesterday and today. Most of the guides are quite Indo-centric (understandably) and seem rather bitter about the Spanish legacy. Also visited some of the colonial churches which amply reinforced the notion of Catholic excesses. They almost made me yearn for modest English parish churches or the austere but tranquil Egyptian mosques. Not bad for a fourth generation atheist.
Slight currency crisis today when all ATMs rejected our debit card and the change agencies rejected our crumpled dollar bills. One exchange place eventually accepted them so all was well - we are solvent once more. And my laundry came back on time so all is well.
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