http://blogs.bootsnall.com/Turquoise-Girl A BootsnAll Travel Blog Tue, 02 Aug 2005 19:25:08 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en we arrived today in the city of baños. i spent all of yesterday sleeping and watching subtitled american movies in our room. i haven´t been feeling all that great, but think i´m beginning to recover. i did, however, watch win a date with tad hamilton, die hard, ... http://blogs.bootsnall.com/Turquoise-Girl/banos.html yesterday, we walked 8 km to visit the saunas and hot springs of cuenca. we had to hike through some winding towns, up a hill, by cows and sheep and dusty little shops. the hot springs pool was chaotic with ecuadorian families and many splashing, yelping children. ... http://blogs.bootsnall.com/Turquoise-Girl/banos-de-cuenca.html ok, i feel dumb. cuenca is the actually name of the city. http://blogs.bootsnall.com/Turquoise-Girl/cuenca.html we spent our last night in mancora playing cards at a restaurant named iguanas. it was a lively place with a big yellow lab sprawled in the center of the bar and wooden posts for bar stools. i had a delicious sandwhich and a mess of fries, which ... http://blogs.bootsnall.com/Turquoise-Girl/cuacas.html we arrived in mancora at four in the morning and rode a tiny taxi, powered by motorcycle, to our destination, el pirata. the hostel was a sprawling place on top of a dunish hill, constructed entirely out of wood and bamboo, bearing pirate flags. the sand of the ... http://blogs.bootsnall.com/Turquoise-Girl/mancora.html sunday night, we went out to dinner at a pizza place with nicole and her coworker flo from france. flo brought his friend vicente, and we´ve never met two funnier guys. they sang and joked their way through dinner and our hot chocolate that we had afterwards. ... http://blogs.bootsnall.com/Turquoise-Girl/huanchaco.html i apologize for not writing earlier. for awhile, when we were ¨stuck¨´so to speak in cuzco, there wasn´t much to write about. however, we did discover many great friends and wonderful hang out spots there. our favorite restaurant was hands down, los perros. all the walls ... http://blogs.bootsnall.com/Turquoise-Girl/trujillo.html we are now back in the city of cusco. for whatever reason, our alarm didn´t go off yesterday, and cassidy woke with a start at the time we were supposed to be at the meeting place to leave for macchupichu. we threw on clothes and tossed our stuff ... http://blogs.bootsnall.com/Turquoise-Girl/cusco.html we arrived in cusco after a long bus ride where we were entertained by pirates of the carribean, the movie, in spanish, when we would have wanted to be sleeping. however, we got in at four in the morning, and went straight to bed in a hostel outside of ... http://blogs.bootsnall.com/Turquoise-Girl/11.html cass and i just returned from an overnight stay on the island of amantani. first, though, we stopped at the floating islands of uros. the islands are entirely comprised of several levels of a lake plants roots and stalks. (once again, i cannot use an apostrophe). ... http://blogs.bootsnall.com/Turquoise-Girl/las-islas.html