The Sacred Valley

I am staying in the Sacred Valley outside of Cusco. Here is a brief update -

- LAX to Toronto: great flight, arrived way too early in the morning. watched it snow all day before boarding a packed flight to Lima
- Has nice conversation with my seatmate - a canadian oil and gas guy who also lives in Lima.
- Arrived at 11pm in Lima. Customs, get my bags and head over to the hotel across the street for 5 blissful hours of sleep and a shower.
- Caught an early flight to Cusco. Flew over the Andes, my face pressed to the window. As we got closer to Cusco, craggy snow topped mountains poked out of the cloud cover.
- My friend Anna, met me at the airport holding a sign with my name. I was so happy to see her. Although we don´t see each other much, she and I have much in common and always enjoy each other.
- Bus ride to Pisco, the town she is staying in, on a winding road through the Andes. The lower part of the mountains are lush and green, the tops hidden in the clouds.
- I´m staying in the house called ¨The Condor¨ It is the home of a shaman - although he is on vacation at the moment. I am in the yellow room and it a beautiful place.
- Checked out the local market yesterday - so many cool things.
- It was the first day of carnival yesterday and there were  several local dances.
- My friends made me drink coca tea for the altitude sickeness - it really helped a lot and I am feeling much better today. In anther day, I should be back to my usual effervscent self.
- The kids in town have massive water balloon fights - in fact they are gangs of water ballon fights. I got to witness this first hand yesterday.

That´s it for now.... Actual writing a bit later....

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[Portland Firefly]

Love the update...thanks.