We headed from Cuzco about 5 hours by bus West, to a place called Abancay, seldom visited by tourists judging from the amusement and interest (staring) we generated here! We stayed for less than two days, but squeezed in a walk on the second which involved cacti, private property, and chasing flip-flops down rivers...! Photos by Chief
Not too many photos are available of the next 2 weeks, which involved a bit of splitting up - Me, James and Claire went to the very lovely Nazca and rode on the vast sand dunes in a dune buggy then did some sandboarding, and took a flight over the famous Nazca lines which were suitably impresive. Due to the lack of Chief or Vic, i have no photos of any of this time at the moment. Trust me, it was good! We then all reconvened in Huanchaco on the Peruvian coast, as a sort of halfway stopoff on our journey towards Ecuador. We had a pretty relaxing and not too eventful time on the beach there, the weather was a bit lousy but nothing to complain about... Anyway, after that me, chief, claire & james again split off from Wullie and Beth, and took many hours worth of buses to a lovely little town called Puerto Lopez, this time on the Pacific Coast of Ecuador... These photos are from there (all by Chief)...
We took a boat trip out to Isla de la Plata (dubbed the poor man's Galapagos) one day, and saw some pretty marvelous stuff from the boat... Like a large number of bottlenose dolphins, and quite a few humpback whales, which we were lucky enough to see showboating for our viewing pleasure by jumping completely out of the water, and swimming right round and under our boat - it was pretty special and i think we were unnaturaly lucky that day...
1 comment:
I think "spikey fish" is a perfectly acceptable name! Great image.
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