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...So then we went back and had some coffee at the hotel and checked out some flamingos and a cliff on the ocean shore. the region of Paracas is all desert. They only get 2 inches of rain per year, so its very dry and arid. There are people all along the coast who live in homes made of varigated metal leaned up against 4 posts. Some are in little cities, and some are all alone in the middle of nowhere.
I thought why would you put your house in the middle of the desert, if you could put it anywhere you wanted to? Anyways, the state of things is very sad.
We had a pork sandwich on the way back to Lima which was excellent. When we got back to the hotel we had an hour of free time before dinner, which of course I used for pinching every zit on my face. We had a buffet style dinner, then went to bed. That was the night I spent an hour typing a really long email that didn´t go, so hence the many little emails today.
The next morning we left the hotel at 7:30 am for the airport and flew to the little mountain town of Cuzco. it took a while to get used to the altitude, since Lima is at 0 feet and Cuzco is at 11,000 feet. They gave us some tea to help with sickness. I did pretty well. The churches are catholic, but have a strong Inca influence. For instance...