Hello friends,
The last few days have been busy traveling days. I spent some of last week in the Amazon and it was amazing! I was literally IN the Amazon river. We decided to go swimming in a little town called Infierno, which means ¨hell.¨I thought it was funny. We stayed at an ecoLodge there and our rooms literally looked out into the jungle. If you want to look at pictures it is called Posada Amazonas near Puerto Maldonado. We saw monkeys, macaws, bugs, cabibarra, birds, bugs, and bugs. It was fantastic. Now I´m in a place called Ollantaytambo, which is right outside of Machu Picchu. I will be going there on Sunday. I saw some ruins today and it was freaking amazing! We were in Cusco last night and it was a really cool town. I can´t wait to go back there and do some shopping! Just so you all know, Pisco, the local alcohol is GREAT. A pisco sour tastes like a margharita only better. No joke. A met an older woman today from the UK who lives here in Ollantaytambo (yes, that takes me a while to type) and she is doing nonprofit work for the local women, teaching them about contraception and giving them birth control. They give them Depo because pills are too hard. She also helps with getting food for the local children who have to walk 3 hours downhill to get to school and most never eat, then they have to walk 3 hours back uphill. She´s an amazing lady.
Lastly, I´d like to say: GO KASEY KAHNE! He´s 6th in the points race right now! By the way, my group leader has nicknames for everyone and mine is ¨NASCAR,¨I like it.
That´s all for now amigos! Adios!
3 comments:
I hope those poor people don't go bald like I did on the depo...
P.s. you never mentioned if you got sick like the rest of the group....
Hola Senorita Nascar!
Cómo estás? Disfrutar de su aventura?
Ok, that's all I've got. The rest is in english! Let me know if you need translation. ;)
Sounds like you are having an Amazing time! Hooray! Swimming in the Amazon river, ruins, Pisco, bugs... all good! Ok, maybe not the bugs. PS bring some of that "better than a margharita" Pisco back with you!
What an experience! Please savor every moment and tell me all about it when you get back. No slide shows please. Ha, ha.
Everything here is good. Will get to catch up with Ellen Martin today. Way excited about that! And then Jenny B's bridal shower tomorrow.
Have fun at Machu Picchu!
Levonne
Um I had a little lower GI trouble last night (along with the rest of my group) and some anxiety in the jungle, but both were easily fixed.
Levonne, is Julieta helping you? There will definitely be some pisco coming back to the states with me!
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