Travelling in Peru

I thought that I could write a post about our travelling lives in Peru.

Weather - Because we´re so high in the mountains the weather varies greatly within a day. The sun rises at about 5am (we know this because we're usually up for tours at this hour). Because of the high altitudes, the sun is incredibly hot and the temp can get to 25-30 degrees. Once the sun sets (around 6pm), the temp can drop to 0-10 degrees! However, heating does not exist in Peru or at least no one has it, just super thick alpaca blankets. And hot showers are pure luxury. (see cleaniness below).

Altitude and cities - Cities are not very far apart but because they are in the mountains the roads curl around and around making bus trips quite long for even a 200km distance. During these bus trips the bus can go up and down 1000m and curl back and forth...car sickness big time. (dont worry mostly just nausea).

Cleaniness - Since trekking and jungle trips, our ability to take showers have been limited. Also we dont want to get sick so we refuse the cold showers. Luckily we have been told to make sure that the hostel you choose offers hot showers and we can squeeze one in every 3 or 4 days! ;)

Squemish-nish - I know in the jungle trip it sounded like we were freaked out but we´ve gotten over a lot of things. Most large bugs and small spiders dont affect us. The other day on the bus, a mouse had gotten into our bread (dont ask) and we just flung it to the side and to continued with our way. We also dont care about stepping in donkey poo. Yeah we are slowing getting gross.

Language - Knowing French, I am able to understand a lot of the Spanish (similar words) and reading is generally not a problem. Speaking it is a whole other story. Everytime I get frustrated or I want to speak faster, my automatic reaction is to say the word in French. It rarely helps. There are also a lot of French tourists so whenever I hear some French, Merci comes out of my mouth rather than Gracias. But I´m working on it.

Anyways, these are the daily going-ons of our travelling life. And I thought I would share a bit about how it is.