Hello again! What you have started in 2010? I hope very strong and positive energy! We have much accumulation of things to tell so I'll try to summarize almost everything we've done in the past nearly two months. Ana Arnau
When they returned to Barcelona, \u200b\u200bwe were Jorge, Uschi and I, again without plans, without barriers, and rush times. But soon come another visit, the last of the year. Barbara came to us, the nephew of Uschi! Barbara arrived in Lima so we decided to spend the Chilean desert to the Peruvian desert. We crossed the border by land and the first stop was Arequipa, a huge city in the south of the country, with lots of English colonial influence, which took the opportunity to visit some museums and some monasteries of the fifteenth century when they settled the church members English. I still do not give credit for everything I've seen and heard. The atrocities of the English conquistadors think it fell short of the atrocities of the church led by the Catholic Kings. One is ashamed of our ancestors ...
After days of acculturation and good eating, we went to visit the Colca Valley. We reached a small village called Cabanaconde 3.200m through a road infested with potholes
through ports more than 5,000 m of altitude. From there began a 3-day trek across the valley. Contrary to everything we thought, southern Peru is very dry and arid, where precipitation appears very few times year, and where the landscapes are rather barren. Proved to be a grueling trek because the slopes were brutal day. Come on, that there were no plans followed ten meters. Everything rises or falls a lot and knees at the end of the day we called off! And the sun beat down on the neck at full speed! The best of the trek was to reach a town called XXXXX. It is a village lost among the mountains with a single place to sleep, where we met with 2 Australians and where the family served us incredibly well XXXXX. And fed us dinner, we were shown a small museum has mounted in a room where you can see and learn about their customs, some already forgotten and also see tools, types of crops, animals. But the highlight was Jorge and Uschi dress of local traditional costumes of the area. Uschi Imagine your six feet, put in a typical Peruvian clothing, which should measure a higher sixty!! I started taking pictures, dancing Uschi, Jorge making the whole family own and splitting with laughter, and poker-faced Australians watching the calico. The last day we had a rise of just over 1000 meters and we decided to hunt down the Australians, who were football players were Australian and square. We gave them a little more advantage for an hour of departure. 
We saw the distance and Jorge and I took all the pride and put the turbo. Not only spend 30 minutes before reaching the summit, but had to give them water because they were busted! hahaha!! English power! We notice that we were more acclimated to the altitude and fitter than them throughout the year that we had done in northern Chile! After trekking, we went to visit the city of Pisco, completely devastated by the recent earthquake and visited the Parque Natural de las Islas Ballestas, the truth is that it is no wonder, but we met other travelers, and as always, we pretty well. We are near from Lima, the great capital, but there were still a few days Barbara came to, so we decided to stop at a beach surf outside of Lima to spend 3 days of heavy waves. The village is called San Bartolo, and is pretty ugly and there is little to do, so we spent the days of water to the hotel and the hotel to the water, trying to surf in the waves. It was the first time I surfed on rocky beaches and finally I lost the fear! We had a great surfing but also we get some booster shots, especially Uschi, who insisted on riding a wave in reverse and took a slap in the table in the neck that takes several days to forget ...
And finally in Lima! We arrived at the capital and went to the airport to pick up Barbara. We now
4 travelers! Once we were all 4 together, we went home in Rafah, a good friend of George who left us his small apartment on the sea front, in the best neighborhood in the city. We settled at home and we were like kings several days exploring the city, its museums, cuisine, its night, its hidden corners and prepare the next steps of the trip, I will tell you in the next post! I let you some pictures of the trekking and southern Peru (Uschi not miss a local dress) I hope you enjoy them and leave us some feedback!
Kisses to all, and Robert
Uschi
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