Well nearly missed the bus to cusco, seconds to spare. I didnt realise the bus station was on the outskirts!!! Luckily me amigo Juan Carlos gave me a lift on his motoX bike, My big rucksack on my back and my day pack on his chest we set off across town. some streets closed with road works, but the bike got through, had to lift up a bit of tape to drive under and drive over a few mounds of earth! Then through bustling streets of the centre and out to suburbs.
The bus has no loo on it! eeek 12+ hours, luckily i had not drunk anything for couple of hours! its a just over an hour across the what is left of the low land jungle past gold mining camps. Then head up up and up, foothills first. well bigger then ben nevis foothills. The road this side of the andes is not finished, so parts are diverted onto dirt tracks, so it is slow going in a coach.
At 1 am we came to a stop, thought might just be a bit of jam, but as the hours rolled on it was a closed road! finally got going again about 6am. Was able to nip to the loo in in a culvert pipe down the road in the 6 hrs wait and have a few cat naps too. That is i cat napped on the bus not in the culvert pipe, bit smelly in there, lots of people needing the loo, not just a pee either ;o)
It was hard to sleep on high andes as mostly hair pin bends, so got a bit of a kip in on other side, woke up to see a girl selling corn on the cob on the bus. bleary eyed i had my breakfast at midday!
Taxi dropped me off ot the hotel, then John who i am travelling with for next week, came back to hotel. He has gone of to get his trousers sown!! Then its a huge meal for me and phone up to organises trips to machu and lake ticicaca
hope to post a few pics now, only a few taken 5 gigs worth so far. JOhn has his lap top and there is tinternet in the hotel.
