pics update

right punters... click here for pictures of Cusco (Qusqo) and the Sacred andhere for pictures of Macchu Picchu...

I can´t think of anything long-winded and interesting to say about Macchu Picchu... have a look at the photos, it was pretty awe-inspiring. When I saw it first in the morning when the sun was just coming up, I thought about the American explorer Haram Bingham, who discovered it in 1911, and I got a shiver down my back. I mean 1911 isn´t that long ago and I find it quite amazing that until then it was actually a lost Inca city (of fairly impressive proportions).

I was speaking to a local women and she reckons that there are a couple of other "lost" ruin sites, some of which haven´t been discovered yet and some of which are being kept quiet... I suppose we´ll see if she was right but either way, it´s all this "secret-lost-city-of-bygone-generations" shite that gives me the willies...!

In other news, I´ve been on the piss in Lima almost every night for the past week and body is pretty fu(&$d up. Am staying here until Sunday or so when I´ll make a beeline for Quito in Ecuador to get this shaggin´ Colombia visa.

I also got treated myself to a haircut and shave today, obliterating the longest beard that I´ve ever had... it had been growing since before Rurrenebaque in Bolivia and was getting pretty itchy and increasingly challenging to keep food out of. My mug is back to its clean shaven self again.

And my final piece of good news for all of you who thought that the loss of my recharger might impede on my ability to capture my voyage (I´m sure that lots of you were really worried about that)... I have managed to dig up a new recharger... of all places that I managed to get it in Pollos Azules, Lima´s big electronic black market (I bought more DVDs as well)... me is very happy!

Later dudes...