After three months of hostal accommodation I have temporarily bade goodbye to roughing it while I am on my three week tour of Peru with Gap Adventures. It is costing a bleeding fortune as we are staying in nice hotels and have had our own private minibus and local guides, but they are definitely packing in the value in a way that I just wouldn´t manage if I was here on my own.
Since meeting the rest of my group in Lima, just three Canadian girls, Brenna, Laura and April and our guide Yessica, we bussed down to Pisco along the coast, took a tour of the Balletas Islands (thousands of birds, penguins & sea lions - see picture), went sandboarding in the Huacacuina Oasis in Ica, took a free tour of a Pisco factory (with lots of samples) and had our first glimpse of the Nasca lines at dusk, before arriving at a countryside hotel with a pool for the night.
That was just day one.
Since then we have taken a private morning flight over the Nasca lines (incredible), been on a tour of a pre-Inca cemetery, been to a traditional ceramic factory and visited the Santa Catalina convent in Arequipa. I could go on!
Strangely, I do slightly miss the unique hostal experience of strangers snoring all night or rustling plastic bags at 4am, or having to queue for the shower but I can´t deny it´s fun to be enjoying a bit of luxury. I may as well make the most of it, as in one week we arrive in Cuzco and begin the Inca Trail which will mean three nights in a tent at high altitude! Room service!!!
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I'm Hostile to spelling "hostel" "hostal" - anyway you're just being a copycat now, becky!
That is how they spell it in South America, MOTHER! I cannot believe you are correcting my English from across the Atlantic. Oh, how I miss it.
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