Scary Cow

Just a quick note to let you know we still are about. We have just finished two treks in the Andean alps of 3 and 5 days each. Now that we have warmed up and got some acclimatisation going we are off for an eight day hike around the Cordillia Negro and from there direct to Lima. Ros is just itching to go, honest :) She has become more of a camper than me and has developed a serious case of weight naziness. To the point that she is taking the packaging off the tea bags. The first trek was fun except for the cows that kept giving Ros the evil eye (which I am reliably told means they are ready to charge)!

The walking up hills and living on soups and instant potato has had some marked effect on Ros that she has started saying things like 'I am wearing clown pants' or 'I have no butt'. She has started befriending burros who have returned the gesture by head butting her off the path. The altitude has strange effect on some minds ;) Me, I am craving roast lamb, anything but chicken and rice.

After this we get to Lima to see if we do Machu Piccu straight away (independently) or get the hell outta Peru to Bolivia where it isn't tourist season and inflated prices. But who knows?

Peru is a desert (at least on the coast) where the mud brick houses seem perpetually crumbling back to the plains of their origins. It is a little better here in the mountains and we haven't made in to the jungle.

So that's it until Lima.