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Before The Trip San Salvador and Lima Huacachina and Arequipa Canyon Country

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Southern Peru

San Salvador and Lima

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May 3 2007, 01:33 PM

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Lima, Peru

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Hola Amigos, made it safe and sound. It´s funny you can feel it when you cross the equator. Your head spins the other way, babies cry backwards (HHHAW, HHHAW...wait that just means they´re laughing), and the keyboards are reeally messed up. Ç¿Ñ why would anyone ever use those characters. Anyway, Lima is a bustling city of millions of people. They all honk their horns as if it´s instinct, too. Thoughts of a Limeño, ¨What, why the hell are we stopped? Red light, that doesn´t matter, let´s go.¨ Honk! Honk! The taxi drivers act like driving is some video game swerving through traffic. Nearly all of their cars have busted windshields and if one immediately agrees to a $2 ride, you can get it for $1.

The preferred operating system down here is Windows NT (circa 1996), so hopefully I will find a computer that I can use to post pictures soon. We ended up walking around the city looking for a bike shop that didn´t exist. Not to be deterred, we headed into central Lima to check out a town square (Plaza de Armas) that was built right around Pizarro´s conquest. None of the original buildings still exist, however. Lima even replaced a statue of Pizarro on horseback with a cherub encrusted water fountain because the horse´s arse was facing the cathedral. We´re heading south today towards an adventurous town called Arequipa. But that´s a long ride, so we´re gonna stop a quarter of the way down (4hrs) to do some hardcore sandboarding.

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	4. Canyon Country May 10 2007, 06:34 AMCabanaconde, Peru2 comments There are two canyons down here that have definite bragging rights. Cotahuasi is the deepest followed by Colca Canyon. We did Colca because it was 6 hrs closer to Arequipa. Let the fight begin...Colca Canyon vs. Grand Canyon. This translates to Clubber Lang vs. Rocky. For those who didn´t...

	3. Huacachina and Arequipa May 6 2007, 01:51 AMArequipa, Peru1 comment Getting out of Lima felt pretty good. Too much bustle. There´s this little tourist trap down the road called Huacachina. Population: 200. Stray dogs: 50. Dune Buggies: One for every tourist. The town is wrapped around this natural oasis, with sand dune mountains on all sides. Of course...

	2. San Salvador and Lima May 3 2007, 01:33 PMLima, Peru Hola Amigos, made it safe and sound. It´s funny you can feel it when you cross the equator. Your head spins the other way, babies cry backwards (HHHAW, HHHAW...wait that just means they´re laughing), and the keyboards are reeally messed up. Ç¿Ñ why would anyone ever use those characters...

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