raleva in cuscoraleva@hotmail.comraleva@hotmail.com½
Dear Tynda
i am sorry, but i am writing my german friends more often than you.
but it is so much easier in german.
i think, i send you the last message from quito.
since we are in peru the sun is shining nearly every day and that makes
enjoing riding on a motorcycle much more easier.
in peru we crossed the desert to lambayeque, where we visited the nice
bruning-museum, (but the best thing was the tv in the room with more than 40
channels).
after that we went to huanchaco, a small fishingvillage, near trujillo. this
area is not very nice and a little bit dirty and the panamericana is very
boring, so we went up in the mountains on a shortcut near chimbote (called
chavimochic) to huallanca and caraz.
this dirtroad was really rough but very scenic too.
we climbed up the mountains (with the teneres) through the specatular pato
canyon and crossed dozends of narrow tunels before we reached caraz in the
late afternoon. there we found a small restaurante with a little zoo, where
we could camp free. it was a little bit depressing to see all the nice
animals in the cages - but that are the humans! anyway the place for camping
was great.
at the next two days we made some short trips with the teneres (and without
luggage) in the cordillera blanca. it was so nice to see all the 6.000ers
with full of snow, we went to very beautifil lagunas and high passes about
4.800 meters.
in huaraz we hiked a little bit to get in shape for the inka-trail. so we
hiked and climbed up to the laguna churup, about 4.700 m.
very nice and exausting!
after that we drove a lot of dirt roads in the mountains to avoid the
panamamericana. well eva had to throut a lot of dust and sometimes she
looked like a member of the cultband "fields of the nephilim".
if somebody do not know this band, she was looking like after falling in a
big pot of flour.
up in the mountains we saw a lot of lamas, alpacas and vecunas, especially
at the high plateaus of lagunas junin and laguna orcococha.
near the laguna orcococha we drove our teneres to the 5.069 m high pass
(with no name?) and they were not very happy about it but they did it!!!
in santa ines we could sleep at a police-station in an altitude of about
4.800 m. the policemen were very friendly and invited us for the dinner and
the breakfast in their "police-restaurant".
the night was icecold and we were happy to be in a house, at the next
morning the teneres were totally frozen and full of ice.
then we arrived near pisco at the pacific ocean and drove directly to lima,
because we needed new tires and this is the only place in a cicuit of 1.000
miles!!!
we got good tires there and drove to the paracas national-park near pisco,
were we saw thousends of sealions, millions of seabirds and 3 pinguins.
well, it was a really nice trip on the boat!
near ica, in huacachina, we stayed 1 day in a nice oasis, surrounded by
sanddunes, it was not so lonely like in the the sahara, but still nice.
we stayed on the deserty coast and drove to nasca to see the spectacular
lines. the propellerplane was realy shaky and we were happy to reach the
ground again, we prefer the teneres much more!!!!!
but it was worth to do it and fascinating too.
from nazca we took the directly route to cusco and arrived at the high
altitude again and the landscape was changing very fast from the desert to
the mountain-scenerie.
the teneres were not driving like before, maybe the gasoline in nazca was
bad or not prepared for high altitude, who knows, we are in southamerica.
the road was very scenic and the people much more friendly than on the
coast, we think because of less tourists.
in cusco we relaxed a few days and enjoied the very nice town.
then we did the inka-trail and had the first rain since 5 weeks, that is
life. but on the 2.nd day it was better and on the end we had no rain. the
trail was quiet hard but not too bad and very impressive, the landscape is
really green and different from the cusco area, sometimes it is like in the
jungle, but we were always higher than 2.400 meters. we did it on our own
and enjoied to be free. the ruins on the way were great, but on the 3.rd day
when we arrived at machu picchu, we could not believe it to see what the
inkas did 100s of years ago!!!!
in the evening we went to the hot springs in aguas calientes and relaxed our
tired bones in the hot water under the stars.
and the teneres made no problems since bogota, that sounds nice!!!
thats it for now
ralf & eva
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