Hannah's travel diary

Viva Peru!

Well I got here okay, although the ground staff at Newark where I had to make a connection seemed to be doing everything in their power to hinder us all. It took about 24 hours in total from leaving home to arriving at the hotel, 2 7-hour flights and a fair bit of waiting around. The plane was full of annoying Americans (not that all Americans are annoying, it´s just that there was a surplus of that type on my flight), you know the sort, clapping and cheering when the pilot lands and being loud and causing maximum disruption by going to the toilet 5 minutes after me in the aisle seat had got up to allow the other person in the row to do the same. So didn´t get much sleep, but I can usually cope with that after all the years as a housedog. When I was getting off the plane in Lima I ended up picking up a random German who didn´t have any hotel arranged, he wanted to know if anyone had any phone numbers so I gave him the number of mine and so he booked in there too so we could share the cost of a cab from the airport. We sat up drinking whisky for a bit after getting there, he´s already left today to fly to Cusco with hopes of doing the Inca Trail but I think that is pretty futile really as I don´t think he realises that permits for that sell out months in advance. Good luck to him, I guess.

Not really much else to say as yet, the hotel has been fine, I´ve killed one mosquito already and might try and see if I can find any of the other people on the trip although most of them are arriving tonight on the same flight. It´s warm in Lima, not sunny but not raining either and I´ll probably try and see some of it this afternoon as I´ve got several hours to waste. Meeting the rest of the group tonight, then tomorrow apparently we are driving down to the Ballestas Islands where there are loads of birds and sea lions and stuff, then to Ica which is Peru´s wine region, I just hope it isn`t weird wine made from Llama milk or something.

Anyway, until then....

posted by Hannah @ 4:54 pm