Make way for Frankenfish

In Cuzco we were sleeping in a hostel called "Royal Frankenstein". It had a scary, Frankenstein related interior design. It also had an aquarium with two grim faced large fish. And this is a newspaper clip that was attached to the aquarium:

So what happens to these ordinary salmon if the genetically modified lunkers ever get loose? The whole article wasn't there, and it would have remained a mystery if I hadn't found the following article: Make way for Frankenfish

Pictures from Peru

We finally went through all our pictures (near 2000 of them), picked the best and arranged them in our web albums. Remember the address? No? Here it is:

Peru

Some of you have already seen part of them, and we'll show you the rest next time we meet.
Oren, you missed the first session, so you can look at Manu, Inca Trail and Machu Picchu by yourself, or just wait till you come and I'll show you personally.
Eventually a printed version album will be made too.

Nothing is impossible

Before going on the Santa Cruz trek we had a day trip to one of the glaciers near Huaraz.

This is a sign we saw on the way:

For those who forgot (or never knew) Spanish, it says: "Access is dificult, but not impossible".
I especially liked this sign, because it really states the essence of almost all the things we´ve done here in Peru :)
We´re in Lima now, waiting for our flight home and planning how to spend 5 hours in Amsterdam. So I guess the next blog entry will be written at home. See you (some of you) soon.

Inca Trail: part II

The third day was much easier. We arrived to the camp after only half a day of hiking and then visited some nice Inca ruins:

As I said, we were 6 people in our group. Us, a couple from England and a couple from USA. The couple from USA live in LA, and the guy works as a postproduction superviser in Hollywood. One of his jobs is ¨Prison Break¨. The Inca trail was the only thing they did in Peru, they took a flight home right after it. The english couple lived in Australia for 1.5 years and on their way home they traveled in SA for 3 months.

So on our third night we had plenty of time to talk and to play some cards. They taught us a backpackers game called "Shithead", which was nice. We´ll teach you when we come back. Another game we played that night was one called "Tip the porters". We all lost a lot of money...

Well, now we are in Huaraz, getting ready for another trek, Santa Cruz. All our things are packed, so I guess there will be "Inca Trail:part III" with the pictures of Machu Picchu later.

See ya.