Canyonero!

So I last left off in Arequipa I think. We took a 3 day tour into the Colca Canyon. Our guide Miguelito kept us entertained the whole trip. At the bottom of the canyon we stayed in these little villaged serviced by mule trains, quite an adventure. The hike though the distance wasn´t too great was pretty brutal. Lora took a mule up the last day and I attempted to go at it but was pretty winded at the top. On our return our bus travelled very slowly and had a flat. We arrived at the hostel with 15 minutes to get to our bus. We hauled ass and got a crazy cab driver to get us there five minutes late. We made it! On the bus every seat was full plus the driver stopped to jam the bus full of people in the aisles. As a result we were unable to sleep very well. We arrived at Cusco and learned not to take the aggressive cab drivers. He stopped at the bottom of a big hill and said our hostel was at the top. He then tried to get us to fork over more money to bring us to the front! In Cusco I managed to go out on the town after an interesting evening with a few English kids at the hostel bar. Not too exiting but out on the town nonetheless. After a day for me to recover and lora to feel better, today we walked around cusco and saw the sights, but i´ll have to leave that til another time.

Thanks to Mayor Simpson, now we’re ALL taking golden showers!

So this morning is the beginning of the end of Costa Rica. We sucessfully got up and got outside to where the bus would come way too early today but i will consider it a sucess. I went to go take a leak in a bush to be sure i didn´t have to go on the 5 hr (which turned out to be 7 hr) bus ride back to San Jose, a dog hanging out decided that my backpack was a good place for him to do the same. Agh. Lora scared him away but he still managed to get a bit of my back pack wet, gross! The bus back was nice, air conditioned, baggage receipts, ferry fare included. This is to the contrary of what we had experienced. The last night at casa del mar was relaxing, watching mostly unentertaining soccer games, Spain-belgium, Brazil Argentina, Costa Rica Mexico, and not knowing the result of the US game until i just checked it 15 seconds ago. Lora and i took a nice walk in the afternoon down the mostly deserted beach as pretty much our final farwell to Costa Rica. We are now at another hostel in san jose which brought us here for free saving any haggling and arguing with taxi drivers, well worth it. it is much more gringo trail-ish but serving quite well. Until Peru, adios.