into Peru

28 February 2005

From Tacna to Arequipa, the landscape was featureless, barren hilly dessert.
Dull and brown. I wondered whether the rest of Peru was going to be the same… glad it wasn’t.

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We watched cable tv in the tacna room.

My bus ticket to Arequipa.

The green paper was an example of our daily expenses record. We took rough/recycle paper from anything that we can find: leaflets, napkins, forms, etc.

End of book two.

fuming but almost frozen

25 to 27 February 2005

We were ill prepared for the El Tatio Geysers tour. Under dressed, we almost got froze-bitten. Our lip turned black and our skin itched like crazy.

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Coca tea bag. Cocaine tea? Is this tea banned in Singapore?

Recipe for making salsa.

And we reached Tacna. Peru, our 28th country.

exploding pens, snacks and washing detergent on bus to Atacama

23 to 24 February 2005

We had another ‘rest day’ in Salta before our high-altitude bus ride to San Pedro de Atacama. Along the way, the sceneries were eye-popping. Head-popping too.
I think it was the high altitude at work. Our pens, packets of chips/biscuits and detergent popped too. What a mess!

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23 February. It was the 6th month mark.

Colourful bus tickets and sweet wrappers.

taking a day off from travelling

22 February 2005

We had a relaxing day in Salta today. It was almost like a rest day. But looked like we still did quite a lot.

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These two flowers were from San Bernardo Hill. And we bought a radio.

Salta to Cafayate to Salta

18 to 21 February 2005

From green valleys to cacti wonderland to Martian-like landscapes to wine factory to rockscape fantasy. Some of these places that were along the way looked like bouldering heavens to me.

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Map of Day One, from Salta to Cafayate.

Map of Day Two, from Cafayate to Salta.