Welcome to Leah & Katies online travel diary!!...

Over the next 7 weeks we hope you join us while we discover South America..

We're plannng on trekking the Inca Trail, Cycling Death Road, traversing Salt Plains, Volcanoes & Deserts and might even try fishing for Piranhas in the Amazon....

We can't wait to share our stories with you along the way and hope you can fill us in on what we missing out on at home.

Can't wait to hear from you all soon. Katie & Leah

Monday, September 13, 2010

5 Seater Plane and Open Graves

Hi Guys!

After staying up till the crazy hour of 8.30pm last night ive found myself wide away around 6.30 so I thought I´d come down and say hi...

Yesterday we arrived in Nasca, after spending the night travelling here on a bus from Arequipa.. Arriving around 6.30am  we had a brief chance to shower and unpack before heading off to the Airport for a flight to see the Nasca lines...

Our plane seated only 5 people and had the optional advantage of being able to be flown with the windows down...I think everytime a Condor in Peru farter we dropped a few feet and swayed to the left...Nevertheless, the flight was good fun and we got a really good view of the lines.. Pretty amazing stuff....
Interestingly, in order to fly on the small planes you had to weigh in so they could make sure weight was distributed evenly.. It seems thanks to Frank and Connor (our pet stomach parasites), Leah and I have lost 5 and 7 kgs respectively since the start of the trip!!.. Never mind though, we fully intend on eating more fudge icecream in the next 2weeks so will probably regain it al!.

After the flight we did a tour of the local cementary which is easily the most bizarre thing i´ve ever seen.. Stuck in the desert, graves are now lying open shwing you the mummified bodies of people that died over 1000 years ago.. You can see their hair, eyes, tongue in some cases.. Its truly gross.. Worse still you walk around and can see random rib cages and bones on the top of the sand.... The wind was blowing a gale so you involuntarily swallowed like heaps of "people dust" as we were calling it...

We will try and post some pics cause its really creepy...

Anyway, today we´re off to play in Sand Buggy´s and go sandboarding.... Whilst tomorrow we´re off to the Ballastas Islands.

Chat soon.

Love Leah and Katie.

3 comments:

  1. So glad to see that all is ok with you two. Love heaing about your adventures. Certainly different to what is going on here. ITR's will be long gone by the time you get back Kate so that is one worry off your head! Can't wait to see the pics - love them so far.
    Take care
    Love
    Trace

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  2. Def owe you one Trace...We´re loading more pics now so you should be able to check out our sand boarding skills!

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  3. I'm soooo jealous! I went sand "boarding" once in the White sand dunes of Alamogordo New mexico, except we didn't have boards so we used the tops of the trash bins... not quite the same I imagine :)
    Glad things are looking up health-wise. Now you just have to have a lot of alcohol to kill off any future parasites.
    Much love!
    Sharpie

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