http://blogs.bootsnall.com/kungfuhammer Canada, USA, Mexico, Panama, South America Wed, 02 Jul 2008 16:26:21 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Took an early bus to Puno, Peru from Arequipa. The bus turned out to be a big piece of junk. The driver was a maniac and drove most of the trip in the wrong lane while passing semis around blind corners on the highway. After somehow surviving that bus ride ... http://blogs.bootsnall.com/kungfuhammer/copacabana-lake-titicaca-bolivia-jun-30-jul-2.html Took a 10 hour bus ride to Arequipa and arrived at 5:30am. We didn´t sleep much on the bus because the heat was on full blast and we were sweating like crazy. The whole bus stunk because of the sweaty, discusting people. Had a free breakfast at the hostel. Met ... http://blogs.bootsnall.com/kungfuhammer/arequipa-colca-canyon-peru-jun-27-30.html We enjoyed the fantastic view from our hostel, while eating free breakfast, which Edmundo thinks is awesome because he writes it down in our journal everytime. The hostel is really cool, it has been converted from an old farm. We spent most of the day walking around the main square ... http://blogs.bootsnall.com/kungfuhammer/cusco-peru-jun-21-26.html We woke up at 4:30am to take a 4 hour train ride to Aguas Calientes, a city near Machu Piccu. We bought some wool mitts and toques because we were so cold. The area we are in now is approx. 3,000m above sea level. It gets pretty ... http://blogs.bootsnall.com/kungfuhammer/aguas-calientes-machu-piccu-peru-jun-20-21.html Finally got to Cusco, Peru after a 15 hours uncomfortable bus ride.  We could barely sleep because there was a baby crying almost all night right behind us.  The first picture shows a bunch of roosters in a mesh bag tied to the roof of a bus!  We didn´t do ... http://blogs.bootsnall.com/kungfuhammer/cusco-peru-jun-19-20.html Happy Birthday Edmundo!!! The hostel in Huacachina organized a tour to the Nazca Lines for us... a two hour bus took us there. We hopped on a little 6 seater airplane and we had a crazy plane ride over the lines. Edmundo puked on the plane and ... http://blogs.bootsnall.com/kungfuhammer/nasca-peru-jun-18.html Huacachina is a really cool little town.  The town surrounds an oasis in the desert and is surrounded by huge 300 meter sand dunes.  We took an insane, death dune buggy trip into the desert and then went sandboarding, and stopped on top of a dune to watch the sunset.  ... http://blogs.bootsnall.com/kungfuhammer/huacachina-peru-jun-13-18.html We left by bus (4 hours) to Paracas, the landscape was beautiful.  Peru is surrounded by desert with huge sand dunes.  On the way into town we passed a whole bunch of fish meal processing plants... man did it smell disgusting.  We had dinner on the beach, which was under construction.  ... http://blogs.bootsnall.com/kungfuhammer/paracas-peru-jun-12-13.html Lima is a huge city... about 8 million people live there.  There are some very beautiful parts of town that we visited.  The first is a shopping mall that was built into the side of cliff above the ocean.  And there were people surfing with wetsuits in the poluted ocean.  ... http://blogs.bootsnall.com/kungfuhammer/lima-peru-jun-10-12.html We arrived finally in Bogota, Colombia after a 17 hour bus ride...wow!!  We met two Irish guys named Darrah and David on the bus and then shared a cab and a room in a hostel.  We walked around Bogota´s old town and explored, it´s beautiful.  The old city is full ... http://blogs.bootsnall.com/kungfuhammer/bogota-colombia-jun-2-9.html