Machu Picchu
at val nan skit som alla andra, lag vaken en hel natt med jordens hemskaste kramper som inte blev ett dugg battre for man spydde upp de lilla man hade kvar pa morronen. som tur va skulle vi ju ga upp klockan 5 for att sitta pa ett jakla tog,baklanges! i 4 timmar ungefar... lyckades iaf byta till oss platser i ratt hall, trodde vi ja, tills taget fick for sig att buta riktning var 200m for att kunna ta sig upp for ett bant berg typ.. fy fan har aldrig vart me om nan vare tagresa... som tur va bestamde de sig iaf for att bara aka at ett hall tillslut o da behovde man bara sta ut me de otroliga skumpandet fram o tillbaka o man kande hur de vande sig i magen...
nar vi sen kom fram till de stallet da vi egentligen skulel ga av for att traska i 4 timmar rakt upp i stentrappor o stenros bestamde jag mig for att aka o do pa hotellet istallet.
jakla hotell hade ju inte kabel-tv.. sa jag forsokte bortse fran min harliga kramper o fa lite somn istallet.
har aldrig dromt sa konstiga drommar..!
forsta drommen spelade jag innebandy med hela gamla te3b, bjorn sa att jag va jattedalig pa innebandy o klacken ville bara spela basket.. sen va min gamla larare fran nasbydalskolan dar ocksa, allas alskade rober von braun,han va tydligen var idrottslarare? o min gamla klasskompis karin va dar ocksa. sen skulle jag hem o mamma o pappa bara sa att jag maste hem till Santiago eftersom jag hade skola nasta morron, o d enda jag hade a schemat var sprak o bank-kunskap. tillslut overtalade iaf philip mamam o pappa att jag skulle fa stanna en dag i taby iaf sa kunde jag aka till santiago pa morronen efter, d tog ju enda bara 3 timmar??!
min andra drom var betydligt konstigare.. forst dromde jag att jag vart hemma i taby men vaknat upp o insett att jag fortfarande var i peru, blivit jatteledsen o somnat om, sen nar jag "vaknade" igen hade jag tagit mig till taby o ingen visste hur. jag var lycklig o hemma med sandra o at lingongrova med leverpastej =) pappa ville aka o kopa glass at mig men mamam sa att nej d e ju bara onyttigt o daligt, men han sa ju att hon alksar val glass o mar inte sa bra, de kan vi val kopa till henne iaf! msen gick jag upp pa datorn o carro sa att hon va pa samma hotell som jag for hon hade hittat varan packning o en bok dar de stod ett mitt namn, men personalen hade sagt till henne att jag bytt hotell.. sa jag forsklarade att jag tagit mig till taby pa nat konstigt satt men att jag skulle komma tillbaka imorron. massa andra prata me mig ocksa men ja fattade inte alls va d pratade om o kund einte svara... sen gick jag ner o forsokte komma fram till hur fasiken jag tagit mig hem nar de enda jag hade pa mig var 30 soles (60kr). mamma trodde att jag blivit utnyttjad av nan som antagligen tagit alla mina dyrbara agodelar han kunde fa ut lite pengar av o jag blev livradd att han tagit min iriver emelie gett mig o mamma sa att de hade han formodligen. sen kom pappa pa att de va nog best att emelie foljde me till santiago men ingen visste hur vi skulle komma tillbaka... sen vaknade jag o var fortfarande i machu picchu o madde skit...
mja d va inte sa normala me andra ord... men somnade iaf tillslut o pa morronen madde jag lite battre iaf. vi tog en lite senare buss uptill machu picchu. den som gick klockan 6 pa morronen. gick omrking dar o d va faktiskt valdigt fint aven fast de forsta timmarna var fyllda med moln. men d va ju absolut de omgivande landskapen som va den vackraste upplevelsen! tempel har man ju sett nagra stycken pa resan... fick tillome ta mig en liten tur i skogarna runt omkring, typ regnskog! helt fantastiskt =)
o imorron aker vi till djungeln pa riktigt!! ska bli sjukt kul!! hoppas man mar lite battre.. det gar ju bra sa lange man inte ater.. men jag kan ju inte leva pa 3 skedar svampsoppa o lite te varje dag?
ajaa hoppas ni har det bra dar hemma o att ni far mycket fin sno tills jag kommer hem =)
puss o hej
Puno
ja jag har inte skrivit pa ett bra tag o jag skyller pa hojden min hjarna funkar inte ritktigt eeh? man tycker ju att jag skulle kunnat skicka in ett litet inlagg iaf under de 30h jag suttit pa internet sakert haha efter all dotid jag haft :P men jag tankte att de enda som laser min blogg varje sondag, min kara momma o offa, e ju o solar pa kanarieoarna nu sa da kan jag ta min tid innan jag skickar in nasta, men nu blir de ju da dessvarre valdigt langt... jaja
jag har iaf lyckats hitta min mamma o tagit mig till puno, mamma den stackarn klarade inte riktigt hojden lika bra som jag o ligger darfor nu pa hotellet o vilar upp sig for att kunna ta nya tag o orka ga ut o ata middag.
sist var jag visst i la paz o d har ju hant en hel del sen sist, allt kanske man inte behover namna har men jag kan ju forsoka plocka ut nat minnesvart iaf.
jag var i la paz, o jaaa.. dar e d billigt! vi at middag pa gatan av nan liten bolivians dam med ett rullande gatukok, hela 3kr kostade det! vi trodde vi skulle bli ruinerade... sa dan efter beslot vi oss for att ge oss uppp pa hogre hojder, fattigare folk o aven billigare maltider. Stina hade ju berattat hur goda saltenas ar (de ska vara ungefar som empanadas fast godare?!) sa vi tankte att vi kopte en dar uppe sa vi fick en god frukost. Efter 2 brosk o annu lite mer slemklumpar, o jag tror det skulle finnas kyckling ocksa? bestamde vi oss for att vi skulle nog slanga resten o aldrig mer kopa mat pa hoga billigare hojder, hade kanske vart vart att betala dubbla priset, 2kr, o kanske fa en lite mer delux, mindre slemmig o utan brosk.. men har man atit kycklingknan i thailand kunde man val ha atit den med?!
johanna passade aven pa att bli sjuk nar vi satt pa en liten arabisk restaurang. hon sa att de va ett migrananfall o berattade precis vad som skulle handa for oss. o mycket riktigt sa domnade hennes fotter o hela alltet hon beratade o hon blev konstig o hon satt dar, konsentererad till 200% for att pricka vattenglaset med munnen! vi fragade lilla pojken som jobbade dar om de hade nan bra tablett o han svarade glatt att han skulle springa ivag o kopa en, o nagra minuter senare kom han tillbaka med en kopp varmt vatten o en liten tabltett som jag faktistk tror funkade. (vi undrar fortfarande var det var i?) vi fick hem johanna o gubben pa hostellet sprang snabbt o hamtade en uttvattad bajspappershink som johanna kunde spy i ifall detta blev nodvandigt. som tur va slapp hon det...! nu pa senare hand tror vi dock att de va hojdskuka men jag vet inte?
forutom allt detta kul ar shoppa det enda man kan gora i La Paz. Mycket baby alpaca, hecho mano, todo el dia blev det iaf! tur var val det eftersom vi fick god anvanding av alla vara mossar vantar o halsdukar vi kopt pa varat kanske inte sa jattevarma hostel.
men jag blev sedan tvungen att lamna min kara johanna i la paz o hon och stina fortsatte deras resa och jag begav mig tillbaka till santiago.
stannade till i iquique en natt i hopp om att fa traffa palo men de verkade itne ga att fa tag pa henne sa slutade med att jag tog mig till stranden dar jag lag o brande sonder mig sjalv hela dagen. nar jag var nast intill dod bestamde jag mig for att chansa pa att ingen skulle sno mina saker om jag gick o svalkade mig o som tur var, var allting kvar nar jag kom upp igen.
jag satt dar o vantade pa solnedgangen nar 2 chilenska familjer borjade prata me mig de va valdigt trevliga, ska forresten gifta mig med deras 15ariga son om 5 ar nar alderskillnaden inte ar lika stor, han vantar sa garna sa. far val se hur han hittar mig i stockholm sen da? ne men eftersom ja inte hade nat battre for mig gick jag hem o hade once (kvallsfika) me dom haha =) ja men va ska man gora helt jalv o overgiven pa ett helt dott hostell i iquique?
dar bjods jag iaf pa salami, ol, vin, rom o cola, kycklingsoppa o massa annat gott. hade d riktigt trevligt. rolig historia det dar hehe ;)
mindre roligt va det att ta sig hem till santiago eftersom tydligen ville hela iquique aka dit pa helgen sa efter 2 dagar pa flygplatsen fick jag antligen en biljett. da hade redan mamam landat i santiago o gick val omkring dar helt lost, som ur var valdigt trott eftersom hon rest hela dagen sa vi hade val inte kunnat gora sa mycket da iaf.
kom iaf antligen fram till halriga marriot mitt i natten pa lordagen dar o tog glatt emot de 5stjarniga hotellest UNDERBARA sangar o duntacke!! lite annat an en gammal traplanka i svinkalla la paz!
jag vet inte hur bra guide jag var at mamma i Santiago, men vi kom iaf upp till den storsta turistatraktionen Cerro San Cristobal. Va mer ska man hitta pa, e ju inte varldens finaste o roligaste stad precis. men vi tog oss aven en rundtur dar o tittade pa byddnader o halsade pa atlas copco. en dag akte vi aven till valparaiso, vilket ar mycket finare at se pa iaf =)
det var kul att visa mamma runt aven fast hon var vadligt orolig att vi inte skulle komma till puno... men nu riktiar vi in oss pa de trevliga stunderna pa resan istlallet!
sa vi kanske ska hoppa oever iquique o bussresan till puno sen. det var dessutom under den trevliga bussfarden bland alla gjorde en johanna o sov som en stock hela vagen! borjar bli lite van med bussar nu, o den har va lite mer lyxigare an de man fick vanja sig vid i bolivia! hade aven en snall peruanare framfor mig som tyckte att vi skulle frysa eftersom vi itne hade 100 filtar me oss sa hon gav oss 2 varma dunkappor vi varmde oss med under den 11h langa farden =)
nu ar jag da antligen i Puno! hela dagen igar var mamam sangliggande o jag fick ga o utforska den mycket roliga (men las jattetrakiga..o ratt fula faktiskt) staden sjalv.. hamnade pa nat litet stalle dar de tog 40minuter att gora en nachotallrik o sedan gav jag upp o satte mig pa internet resten av dagen hehe
pa kvallen fick jag iaf ut mamma o at en 4 ratters jategod middagm fisk, soppa avokado, sallad o frukt o hela koret for dyra 30kr! det ar dyrt att ligga pa topp!
idag har vi besokt uros oarna. de ar flytande sma oar som folket bygger sjalva av rotterna av graset som vaxer i sjon, rotterna flyter namligen. dar bor de pa sina oar o gor allting av de dar graset eller vassen eller vad man nu kallar det. de bygger on, huset, ater det, gor massa grejer de kan salja, allt gor de me det! de har aven sma toaoar dar de kan ga o gora sina behov, men de maste de branna ner efter 2 manader ungefar. de vanliga oarna haller i 20-25 ar typ sen maste de bygga en ny. helt otroligt att folk kan leva sadar!
pa eftermiddagen akte vi till massa gamla ruiner typ. de byggde torn o massa grejer.. jatteintressant men de kan vi ju ta nan annan gang. pa vagen tillbaka halsade vi pa hos en familj som levde dar ute i ingentans o at sina marsvin. marsvin ar for ovrigt en delikatess har, nagot jag inte tanker prova dock, tror jag haller mig till deras goda fisk!
eum ja detta blev ju ett langt kanske lite mindre intressant inlagg men jag ska forsoka fa liv i min stackars mor nu o kanske fa lite mat i mig. imorron aker vi till cusco med en buss hela dagen. vi gick till ett apotek o jag tror jag lyckades kopa aksjuketabletter till mamma, det lar ju visa sig imorron om inte annars...
puss o slem du vet vem
Uyuni - a trip to heaven
Im sitting at a internetcafe waiting for getting on my bus to la Paz. We just ate lunch at a restaurant here in town. We ordered the menu for today so first we got sallad and bread, then rice soup with potato and meat, then spaghetti with salsa and meat and then vanilla pudding for dessert. All this cost us 10 bolivianos whis is like 10 swedish crowns!!
the last 3 days have been AMAZING! I just had to tell you that...!
we went from la serena, the party town where noone could find the party. And from there up to San Pedro the Atacama. We met 2 girls from england on the bus and spent an hour walking around trying to find a good cheap hostel but in the end we were back were we started and decided to stay there.
4 in the morning the next day we went to Tatio Geysers to watch the sunrise, all the geysers and to swim in the hot thermas, it was great! Im not sure what kind of energy we used to survive the rest of the day but first we were planning on doing sandboarding and see the sunset and all these things San Pedro is offering you. But it never happened... so after doing nothing all day except walking around trying to change money and book the uyuni tour, we bought some mango sour and went to our hostel totally overtired and had a fun time there instead.
Now to the amazing uyuni tour! I will problably never ever in my life experience something that cool again!
It was THE tour! We stratedin a bumpy white minivan, untill we came to the bolivian border. There we got to throw all our backpacks on the roof of an jeep and strat our journey. We were a really fun gang in our jeep. It was me from stockholm, johanna from gotland, a girl from england, one boy from france, one from belgium and one from brazil. We had tons of fun!
We saw green lagunes, red lagunes, falmingos and dessert and dessert and mountains and more lagunes. We went to geysers 5200 meters above sea level and it was snowing! The Braziliean guy in our jeep just started to dance and jump around, halleluja moment! It was the second time in his life he saw snow. We stoped for lunch and dipped our feets in the hot thermals.
That was just the first day. We stayed ina very basic hostel in the middle of the dessert. It didn’t have any showers and the toilets were filled with poop, but at least there were some beds and million of stars outside the window! You can really see the milkyway from here, and it is like a 100 times more stars here than it is in sweden.
Everyone in my room went to bed at 20.40!! it was impossible for me to sleep that early..! so after freezing my ass off under the stars I went to bed, under my 5 blankets, and listened to music, thank you Emelie, you’re the best!
The second day we had to drive a lot! And it had been raining so it was like driving in a muddy lake. So we were sitting there, listening to the soundtrack of uyuni, titanic in techno version, eating lollipops with bubbelgum and just wondered how the heck he knew where he was driving. Our car broke down a couple of times but our good driver managed to fix it every time! But there were times I thought I never was going to see “land” again. And I don’t know why, but the driver must have loved driving in the water because if there was a dry path and one filled with water he would definetly go for the one with all the water! First we thought it was because he didn’t want to get stuck in the mud so it was better to go where it was water because then you know its good enough to keep the water from sinking but then a car passed us and everytime the other car avoid the water, our went for a swim. After a while you could really hear how the engine was flooded with water and I think it was a miracle we made it all the way to uyuni!
After swimming in the mud for some hours we took a road called tum-tum. It got its name bacause the entire car and everything in it just went tum-tum, bumping around on all the rocks.
We stopped in a little town called San Juan. Our driver really wanted to stay there, I think he had a lovr there or something. But after som deliciuos 100% coffe with bolivian milk powder we kept going towards the salt hotel.
Finally we came to the salt hotel in the salt dessert, salar de uyun. In the salt hotel everything was made from salt. The floor, the table with chaits, the beds, evverything! it was really cool!
The next morning we were supposed to look at the sunrse but it was cloudy so we slept a little bit longer instead. At first it was just all white and covered with water in the salt desset. But then when the sun found its way through all the clouds it was like driving in heaven. Everything reflected so it looked like you were driving on the clouds, and when other cars passed by it looked like they were flying. It was soo cool! Totally amazing! We stopped at an island, filled with giant cactus and took really SWEET picture! When Im in santiago and have a faster computer I will definetly upload them. I cant describe with words.. you should have been there!
We danced around in heaven for a while just enjoying life.. it was amazing!
Everything was very high above sea level so it was a little bit har to get used to at first. We got a little bit dizzy sometimes and it was a pain in the ass to walk around. You got exhausted after 10 meters.
Our driver was good, he didn’t fell asleep, we never saw him drinking vodka. He also had a girl named Jovanna who cooked for us. We liked her even though she ate all our food. Good thiing we had the brasiliean cookie king. He didnt give up untill y ou ate his cookie =) it was great! I miss them already!
The only problem we have had here in uyuni is to get away from here! We wanetd to go to Potosi and the silver mine but they didnt have any tickets today.. so then we were thinking of going to oruru, but no luck there either. everyone just wants to get out of here. so in the end we just wanted to get somewhere! finally we booked a ticket to la paz, a night bus, even though they are strongly not recomended because they say its dangerous. We just want to get as far away from this place as we can right now so we have a lovely 16 hours bus drive to La Paz to look forward too this friday night! lovely! it will probably take even longer because its rainy season so the roads are very bad and muddy...
I'll let you know how it was when i arrive to La Paz, if I arrive... if not?
¡Feliz Año Nuevo!
the last time I tried to update this stupid thing the wesite hated me and decided not to save what i just wrote...! GAH! anyway...
Christmas in Buenos Aires was GREAT! we never made meatballs but we ate lussebullar, knäck, risgrynsgröt, pepparkakor, kladdkaka and drank glögg with everyone at the hostell and then we partied all night long untill 10.30 christmasday morning. On christmasday we went to a christmas lunch with all the enhlishmen who stayed in milhouse. I ate salmon and turkey with all its stuffing, yummie!! we were going to take it easy at night but when nina and I started to drink champagne for lunch nothing could stop us really... we never went out though, we just stayed at the hostel and partied there. Buenos aires was great, I really have to go back some day!
I was only in Santiago 3 nights before Johanna and I went to Valparaiso to celebrate new year.
Palo and I made kanelbullar one day, mmmm they were the BEST and her family loved them, they were gone before I left her house next morning!
Friday was Johannas last night in Santiago so we made a really good dinner, drank wine and mango sour and smoked some waterpipe. It was very nice! We went to a party with Palo for a little bit and then we ended up by the river which runs through Santiago, and let me tell you, its not a clean one... but palo wanted to be with her little boy shes falling in love with so we joined them for a little bit, didnt understand much of their chilean slang youth language or whatever you want to call it hehe =)
when we came back to johanna we ate some melon and drank the rest of the wine. and then round 5 in the morning she wanted to cut my hair, so thats wat she did? at least we thought it looked good then! no but realy, it turned out good!
Valparaiso was very very diffrent compared to tha last ime we came there. This time there was 2 million crazy chileans partying on the street when we arrived and there we concerts everyhere, party party party! When we finally found our hostell we booked 2 months ago, there was something wrong with our booking, of course! so we didnt ave anywhere to stay. but the guys who owned the hostel, 2 american guys, where realy nice and tried to work something out for us. finally they decided we could stay in their rom, on a madress on the floor. but they would only let us stay there if we took a private double room for 2 over new year, when the prices are 3 times as much as usual. but we knew it was either that or sleep on the street so we ended up paying 40.000 pesos for 2 nights (150kr/natt). but oh well at least we had somewhere to stay! and they even got us a bed later on =)
The hostel were really good though, "El YoYo". really a hostell to recomend! good atmosphere or whatever you say.. it feels like a big family, the only diffrent is that everyone party all the time.
anyhow.. we celebrated the new year up on the hills in valparaiso, watching the fireworks. then it was a BBQ at our hostel and we were just walking around in the town partying cause it was party party everywhere!
we were gonna go to la serena the 2nd but didnt find any tickets so we stayed in viña del mar one night. Johannas friends boyfriend has a cousin in viña who has a hostel so thats where we stayed. We had our own bathroom and cabel tv!!! vilken LYX! we visited some beaches. first the one in viña, crowded as hell! then reñaca, a couple of minutes away, very nice! we also watched the beautiful sunset!
our lst day in viña, we went to con con. they have a black beach there, it was really nice. I think we got off in like the local part, because then we walked around the corner and ther they were all the tourist. I know, we are tourist as well but we liked the local part better so we went back. but we were so hungry so we stopped half way for lunch, maybe not the smartest disision we made that day but at least the fish was good! expensive but good!
now we're in la serena, finally! we havent seen that much yet though. our night bus from viña arrived 6 this morning so then we just went to a hostel to get some sleep in a bed. now we just ate a BIG delicious sandwich and are on our way to see the town. they have like 14 beaches here but we burned ourself so bad in viña we decided to stay away from them, at least today.
weeeell i cant sit here all day! i have to do something i guess...
taka care!
HAPPY NEW YEAR!
puss pusss