Ha ha rena, nee, wat zijn wij van deze club nou allemaal ????
Siiiiii, Bikers !!!!!! Sorry, geen prijs ! Okee dan, een stukje om te lezen...Oh en mam, je kaartje onvangen via yahoo, great !!!So, few day´s ago was in a little plane watching the Nasca Lines from the air. Really impressive and worthwile the 40 bucks. From Nasca into the mountains, climbing for days lay ahead of me. Also not know how to handle altitude sickness, I mean I know to do it slowly but that makes me bike only 40 km a day... Well I´ll see and the good Lord had something else in mind...
When I reached a very little place, 8 or 10 houses, no electricity, named Hualluhua at 2300 meters after one and a half day I made camp there with the plan to leave next morning. No way... I felt not 100 %, a little headache so I dicided to take a day rest here.
I tried to buy some cheese, pound for 25 cents..., but the lady of the house siad she had it in the evening. Inside the house, well hut is a better name, were two lovely girls so a conversation started. Tried to learn them some better Englisch and wqe had a lot of fun. But one girl, the nicest, said she had to go for the rest of the day. I asked, where? and she said down to the river with three mules. I asked if I might join here for a couple af hours which was fine...
Turned out to be one of the most fantastic day's !
After an hour walking to the river, way down, we reached a little hut where 10 cows were and a lot of sheep and goats. Learned how to milk a cow and make from the fresh milk cheese. Just poor a little of something in it and the milk stolled, leaving cheese and a wattery subtance. After that we took the the cows, sheep and goets for a long walk to a field to grease ( eat grass ??? ) We ate some fresh fruit from the trees, oranges, some other small fruits and vijgen, mjammie !!!
Then we saw the other girl with also lots of sheep and goats and we decided to go for a swim in a pool in the stream... Had a lot of fun, tried to learn them how to swim but that ain´t easy. Afterwarths lay a little in the grass, enjoying the sun but the we found out that one of the sheep died !!! The youngest girl did a fine job, removing the things inside with my little 3 cm long knife, all we had, ha ha !!!! So we took the sheep back home on a mule, walking 1 and a half hour back above. That night had dinner with them and again a great time !
Day after I left, little sad...but thats part of the game...
And I payed a price for this great day, namely a sore throath. First day I could only bike 20 km, no more. Problems with breathing due to altitude and throat which is getting worse... Also a slight fever, hot eye´s... Shit, not getting sick Lars, are you ???
I´m never sick !!! Not now, please ???
Day after didn´t feel better so again after 19 km gave up, took a lift to a little town and see what happens.
Next morning throat was really bad so I dicided to visit a doctor who concluded it was only my throat and gave me some pills. I was glad cause I first thought it were my lungs, cause I coughed a lot. was a little afraid of a pneumonia but that wasn´t it. The doctor gave me a cure for five day´s, can´t bike like this so decided to take a bus to Cusco... Peruvian Andes win this time... But I´ll be back some day, promised !!!
So now in Puqio, waiting for the 2100 hour bus to wonderfull Cusco, think it´s much better to recover there, must be a nice town !!!
Greetings, kuche kuche, Lars
