shopping day

today i wandered around cusco with a random friend i met on the roof in the morning. (this picture is from yesterday´s horse wanderings. so is the literal pain in my ass.) we went to like five different markets and i bought the two things i absolutely do not need more of: scarves and a bag. what can i say, i have a problem.

so tomorrow night i´m going to the rainforest, to quillabamba which is cheaper than where i was originally going to go. i even found a buddy, one of my australian roommates who´s name i´m convined is duncan but i´m wrong. i can´t remember his real name though. i´ve asked about four times. i´ve got my itinerary sort of figured out by the way.

on the 8th i go on the trail, which takes four days. then i´ll be in aguas calientes, then in ollantaytambo. then on to puno or maybe copacabana, which is in boliva, to see the islands on lake titicaca. isla del sol is supposed to be gorgeous and it´s on the bolivian side. then arequipa and the canyon and maybe some condors if i´m lucky. then bus up the coast, see the poor mans galapagos and eventually to the surfing town almost in ecuador. then fly back to lima, spend a couple nights partying then i´ll go home.

now i´m going to have a fruit salad and use my switchblade i bought on the street to conveniently cut my fruit. that´s right, i´m not only a scarf buyer, i´m hard core.

oh, shout outs to those who left me comments. i love you guys. and drinking with the aussies was brief, as we ended up in a bar where this man gave us a drink called alma de veinte plantas ( soul of twenty plants) that no cusqueno seems to know about besides this man. it came from a giant plastic jug and was reminiscent of cough syrup. i was wasted after half a glass and went to bed.