Just a quick note. We have been in Lima since yesterday just chilling out. Yesterday we had quite a number of beers at a bar street here. It was crowded as some Peruvian soccer final was going on.

In a few minutes we are heading to the airport for our flight back to Sweden.

It has been a great trip and in a week or so I hope I have a lot of photos posted on www.linushemsida.com :)

Bye for now :)
/Linus, Frida & Anders

After spending the night on a bus we arrived in Nazca very early this morning. We were attacked by a bunch of travel agents that wanted to sell us flights over the Nazca lines. The travel agents were too obnoxious so we ended up fixing it ourselves. 40 dollars per person for about 30 minutes flight in a small 5-passenger Cessna airplane. It was well worth it :) .. The Nazca lines by the way is a small mysterium. They don´t know why there were made but they are very big (as long as 270 meters) and the figures symbolize a monkey, a condor, a dog, a hummingbird and more. One is called "the astronaut" but I doubt that is what the creators had in mind. They are best seen by airplane and unfortunately the photos can only show so much of what we could see up there.


Our airplane.


The "astronaut"


View from the airplane.

We arrived here in Arequipa yesterday after a six hour bus from Puno where we went to a pretty cool museum. They have apparently found four mummies in the icy ground on top of the one of the mountains here. The mummies have been well preserved and are around 500 years old, from the Inca period. The mummies are children that have been sacrificed to the mountain as it was considered a god. It was really cool and the most famous one is called Juanita and she is on display in the museum in a glass freezer. Unfortunately we were not allowed to take photos.

Later that evening we had dinner and me and Anders thought we should (for the first time) check out the night life here. The dinner was good but not very long after we left the restaurant I felt sick. Frida went home and me and Anders joined some Peruvians, Americans and Brits in one of the bars. I still felt sick and after a couple of hours I had to go home. I probably got food poisoning because I was sick all night and it is first now (5pm) that I feel a bit better. I have tried to cure myself with some Peruvian tea and hope I will be fine for the 10 hour bus ride we have booked for tonight.

We came here to see Colca Canyon but as we realized it is basically a two day trip and a lot of time on a bus to see it we decided to skip it and head on to Nazca. After Nazca we hope we can spend a day or two on the beach before we go home. Lima was not that interesting so we are thinking about heading straight to the airport on Thursday from a nearby beach resort. We don´t know what to expect of the beach though, so we´ll have to see.

Here are some photos from our Lake Titicaca trip, which by the way was very cool.


Lake Titicaca.


The floating islands Los Uros that we visited first.


Los Uros.