Inkas are CRA-ZAY

After 3 hours of non-stop stair climbing, I managed to keep from having a stroke and took a nap for 2 hours on the grass of Machu Picchu, nor worries I had my new pancho to lay on. The place is FANTASTICO! and unbeleivablo as well, far more amazing than even Angkor Wat. What were those crazy Inkas doing up there? and how did they get everything they needed up there?

There is no wi-fi connection around Machu Picchu so I am somewhat delayed in telling you about it and also unfortunately brain dead as well as physically depleted to think of anything clever to say but WOW it was great.

We are now in Cuzco and I like it alot more than Lima. Carolyn departed this morning to get back to the states so we are sad she will not share in the adventures ahead, though she may not be once she hears about the 6 bed dorm we are staying in once we get back to Lima...it may turn out worse than 4 days on a falucca without a toilet.

I visited the Coca Leaf Museum today and what a treat!!! Kim and Liz missed out as they laughed at me and walked away. This spanking new museum displayed the inportance of the coca leave in Inka culture as well as it development after the conquest. I have been drinking coca leaf tea since I got here, it is supposed to give you energy and there are also energy drinks here made with it as well as the hard little candies you can suck on for altitude sickness. Thanks to this museum I found out it takes 30Kilos of the leaf to produce 100 grams of cocaine....yes that is correct cocaine...ok maybe correct...the guy was speaking in spanish the entire time so there may be a translation error on my part, but I saw the numbers and the numbers dont lie.

Then the piece de resistance was the last room. Previously each room had like a theme and this last rooms theme was drug abusio where they had a mannequin laying in a bed strung out with a needle and then...how I did not laugh out loud I will never know...two posters...one of Whitney Houston in her heyday and also Amy Winehouse in hers...then also brilliantly paparazzi style pictures of them all strung out. He rambled on really fast about them and then that was it...end of the tour. It was brilliant. What might not be so brilliant is the fact that I bought a box of this coca leaf tea to bring back to the states...but realized I gave it to Carolyn with some of my other stuff to mail back to me in the states. Carolyn are you reading this as you wait 8 hours in the Lima airport...ditch that stuff!!!!!