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Normal service resumed.....

Still in Cusco, but moved hostels for fun, well actually it saves us $5 a night and is in the centre so no taxis. Room kind of looks like a cupboard. We have left behind a really nice garden up in Miravalle at Casa de la Gringa...nice place, squeaky stairs. Hell, the blog went all funny yesterday, and things I posted just were not showing up. Probably thought, "Katie this is dull, please don´t inflict this on the web". We´re being really lazy and haven´t sorted anything out to do. We have watched films and gone shopping mainly. The Last Samurai is really long and seems like it should have a complex storyline, but it´s just Tom Cruise learning some Japanese and to fight with a sword. Hmm, think he better try again for his Oscar. My nod towards cultural activity has been the Inca museum of archaeological stuff, saw yet more skulls and mummies. There´s a fair few deformed looking skulls amongst the ones we´ve seen, but apparently when babies were born, their heads were, uh, "shaped" while their heads were still soft, to show status or something equally necessary. Why so gruesome? I know more about skulls & mummies than I should I think.
Planning to head to the Sacred Valley and Machu Picchu on Monday. Going a little slower now. Then Puno, (Lake Titicaca) on Wednesday or Thursday, Copacobana, La Paz (by Saturday or Sunday), Uyuni (Salt Plains). Any great news I am missing in the IOM / UK? How´s Jordan getting on in the jungle?

posted by Katie @ 2/07/2004 01:38:00 pm