Day 5

Yous will not believe this! Ten hours on a bus? Short blog? We´ll see! ¡a ver!

The birthdy day start at 6:15 with prezzies! A flahing tee shirt, a reverse clock AND a share of an Oxfordshire vine which was registered online in Nazca! and a birthday card.

Missing form yesterday´s:
The toilets in yesterday´s hotel had an automatic seat protector. Italian! A red button made the plastic protectort slide round!
Quote from fellow traveller, "The thing is, no matter where you are, China, Africa, the scrambled eggs are so much better than at home."

From the same guy, " the Nazca lines were not really very impressive." Pre-christian, with little winter mini tornados to keep them clear and centuries of wonder? Who is he kidding?

By the way there has been no rain in Ica since 1998, the year Maria Reiche died.

Lookimg for the ultimate adrenilin rush? Forget the expense of Alton towers! Just take a coach ride south from Nazca on the Pan American. The constant is that the pacific is on the right. And that ends the constants. The sea changes from blue to green to brilliant white, from being at road level so it has to be swept clean of sand daily to being dizzily below you. And to the left? Desert, knife edge dunes, rocks, pebbels, a*m*z*n* striations, reddish blueish pinkish greenish sandyish.

Where the road had to be swept, we had Pacific paddle! Margaret´s crocs got wet!

Next dtop for coffee where we bought tiny finger length bananas and an old guy asked me if I was cold. It is winter here: like a fair Scottish summer´s day!

We stopped at Riconcito Turjillo for lunch. Lovely lunch which ended, courtesy of Cox and King´s, with an enormous candled birthday cake and locals and tour sang.

And on to El Cabildo hotel in Arequipa. Up and down so many valleys and hills.

Seems to me strange to travel through such scenery and spend your time reading about where you are going next? Takes all sorts!

The check in had a surptise. Because it´s my birthday we were upgraded, thanks C&K, to a penthouse suite with balcony! Can´t wait to see the view tomorrow!

See yous tomorrow!¡Hasta mañana!