OPERATION PANFLUTE

Hey Amigos, just a quick update today because we need to catch a colectivo bound for the ruins in Moray.

Yesterday was our favorite travelling day! we did so much DIY exploring and touring. We visited the ruins around Cuzco: Saqsayhuaman, Q'enqo, Puka Pukara, and Tambomachay. We had cheese sandwiches in the ruins and also met a gypsy shaman man who insisted that we meditate with him in a Sacred Incan Tunnel. It was pretty bizarre and involved a lot of heavy breathing and he sang some sweet songs about Pachamama and wished us good energy. The whole experience was topped off when he copped a feel on Marie while saying goodbye. Hahaha, a little sexual assault from a shaman never hurt anyone, right??!?!?!


After the ruins we had some Falafel Sandwiches and then headed to a Hookah Bar. There was a band playing and the Guitarist and the Drummer chatted with us for a while and invited us to their show at another bar that night. We went with them. The guitarist escorted us there and bought us some chocolate bars. He also had the sweeeeetest gypsy/homemade fannypack ever. It was a fanny belt with 2 pouches that rested on the hips. It was leather and all be-jewelled.

At the second club we visited we decided to try some Mojitos and just when we LEAST expected it our old friend Antonio walks in the club. Now -- Antonio wanted to take us to Machu Picchu (but hes totally creepy and really hard to understand, but nice enough, i guess so we gave him our number in Huacachina just to be friendly). Since we arrived back in Lima from Nazca he's been calling us pretty frequently, but we've ignored. Then, when the day came that we told him we'd be in Cuzco he started calling us like 7 times a day. He's totally gold digging though -- he just wants to escort us and then ask for a bunch of money. Anyways, Marie and I decided to be on the lookout for him in Cuzco -- when we saw him it was "Operation Panflute" and we needed to BAIL! But, yeah -- he walks into this bar as we are waiting for our mojitos so we had to talk to him. It was pretty okay -- we just told him our phone was stolen in Lima and we had already been to Machu Picchu. Seriously -- he was a bit of a leech. But all in all, it went rather well.


Okay, we need to get on the road now. We're heading to some more ruins in Moray. We have the next few days planned out and we're getting more concrete plans made with the Coffee Farm.

Ciao Amigos. Hasta Luego.