I don't have too much to say about the canyon, other than that it was awesome. I couldn't fit it all into one photo (obviously!) so I made a video.
When I left Cotahuasi I embarked on 24 hours of hellish travel. Some of it was kind of funny actually. On the first 10-hour bus ride, the guy next to me puked on himself and got some on my pants. Gross! Then I had a wait at the Arequipa bus terminal from 2am to 5:30am, which was okay but hardly pleasurable. I ate some sheep soup at 4.
Then on the second 10-hour bus ride, we started off on a bad note: one of the bus company employees thought it would be appropriate to start peddling natural products at the beginning of the ride, at 6am. I wouldn't have minded so much if I hadn't been totally exhausted and if he hadn't been yelling at the top of his lungs for half an hour. Then we watched Braveheart dubbed in Spanish...twice! We were two hours into the movie when we got to a rest stop, and when we got back onto the bus the guy didn't bother finding the spot where we had left off, he just started the goddamn movie again! We finally made it to Nasca, but instead of going straight to the terminal the driver decided to do another 30-minute rest stop. So after all that traveling, I was finally at my destination but couldn't get to the hotel. Brutal!
And the object of my journey: the Nasca Lines, some enormous drawings in the desert that "continue to puzzle archaeologists today." It was kind of a weird experience flying over them, I was so busy trying to take photos and feeling nauseous that it was hard to take it all in. But the documentary was cool. Here are an astronaut and a hummingbird, hopefully they're not impossible to see.
Flo is arriving tonight!
Wow, just caught up. Thanks for writing this. I always tell Linh that watching this stuff on HD TV is just as good as being there so I'm going provide her an edited version of your blog with only the uncomfortable parts kept in, ha. That should get me out of the doghouse.
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