Another must-see for many people when travelling in Peru, and South America in general, is the amazing Nazca Lines. Basically it is figures created in the desert around Nazca, which can only be seen from the air. It is estimated that the lines are created around 200 BC to 700 AD by the Nazca culture. This is the main attraction of Nazca, and often the only reason to go there.
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The most famous thing in Peru is definitely the Machu Picchu ruins near the city of Cusco. Basically it is one of the biggest and most well-preserved Inca ruins in the world, and is a must-see if you travel through Peru. The Peruvian government is currently limiting the amount of people who can go to the ruins, and will properly be more and more restrictive about the ruins, so go see them while you can.

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I arrived to Cusco Monday morning, and met with Jude whom I studied Spanish with, in Sucre. We decided to take another week of Spanish lessons in Cusco since we felt we needed to get some more lessons about the verbs in the past. We left Sucre with the same level of Spanish, so it made perfect sense to find a school together.

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Lake Titicaca is among the highest navigable lakes in the world, with its altitude of 3820 meter above sea level. It’s a huge lake that’s more than 230 km long, 97 km wide and has a lot of amazing history. The Incas believe that their first emperor rose from the Titicaca rock (Rock of the Puma), and the legend says that the sun was born here. In addition to all this, the Isla del Sol and Lake Titicaca in general, is a very beautiful place, surrounded by the mountains in this crazy high altitude.

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Carnival show in Oruro

This weekend was the big carnival in Oruro, la Diablada, one of the biggest carnivals in the world. We left Sucre Thursday night, and got to the apartment we were staying in at Friday morning. Since it was impossible to book a hostel (we tried several times, but each time they cancelled our booking), we found a guy who rented a floor in a big house with no furniture. We had to sleep on the floor, but at carnival it doesn’t really matter, as you don’t expect to get much sleep anyway. It was only 50 boliviano per night, compared to hotels charging between 60 and 100 dollars per night, with minimum 3 nights.

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Time is running up, and I now only have 3 days left in Denmark. I still havent even bought my backpack, I havent paid the plane tickets from Santiago to Calama, and I still need to write to the language school and pay them in advance.. That and a hundred other things need to be done the following days, while I’m also spending time with friends and getting drunk as usual.

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