Just got back from the a trek to the deepest canyon in the world. I saw condors with a 10ft wingspan, saw incan ruins, and slept in below freezing temps at 5,000 meters above sea level! I woke up several times last night gasping for air because I had altitude sickness, but other than that the trip was cool. Ate a sweet dinner tonight, filet mignon with my german friend for $7 american. It´s so cheap to live down here! I found my favorite beer of Peru, it´s called Cusquena Malta, which is a local brewed dark beer that´s really sweet. And my favorite wine is Gato Negro which comes in a box. We have either a drink of beer or wine with every meal because that´s what everyone else does around the world and it´s really cool.

The language barrier just hit me these last 2 days because I was stuck on a tour with 9 people from other countries who only spoke fractured english and couldn´t understand my accent. So there was a lot of hand signals and frustration when trying to talk. As I go to more populated areas, the english will become more rampant.

The last 2 days has been the celebration de aniversario for Arequipa and that means really loud obnoxious music all night long. I woke up at 5AM bother nights and they were still going at it. But the funny thing is that noone realy knows the song so its just a bunch of raquet! Its like 500 people all playing a different song! But I guess that´s how they party down here.

Tommorrow is Lake Titicaca where I´ll sleep on the reeds, and then onto Cusco where I plan to stay for a long time because I hear its one of the best places to go.

I´ll post pics as soon as I find a computer with a USB port.