Goodbye Lima, hello Cusco

We spent the evenng at a local restaurant that featured Peruvian cuisine and dance exhibitions from the different regions, coastal, Andean, and Amazon. We are getting to know the members of the tour and feeling a bit more comfortable. Over half the group are friends, school teachers, from New Jersey. The travel together every summer and have terriffic stories of previous trips. Interesting people for sure.

Gate 1 Travel, our tour organizer is a top notch outfit. We are i pressed with the info they provide, the quality of transport and tour guides. Hector, our guide, will be leaving us, unfortunately his mother had a medical emergency....

We head to Cusco and the altiplano in the morning. Alpacas, llamas and Incan ruins for the next few days. All at > 12,000 feet. We willl see how the altitude sickness pills work... Thanks  Dr. Ward.

Will add more about Lima later, looking forwrd to coming back mext week. A clean metrpolitan city with way too much traffic. The people are nice, the streets are clean, very little graffitti and great food/shopping.

Wake up call in 3 hours, back to sleep.....

Brad