New Years

Well, that was a new years to remember... or forget...

But first, the headlines.

Lima. Not a bad place considering there are 10 million people there. During the few days i had there i went and saw the gold museo, a war museo, San Francisco church and attached catacombs. Plus a bunch of less important churches and places.

The catacombs were morbidly interesting, the gold museo expensively boring and the war museo interestingly bloody.

On the final night we were there one of the new group and i decided that we wanted to head out for a few drinks after dinner so we wandered off to a local piano bar. There were two old guys who looked like they wouldn´t be out of place standing next jesus at the cross playing the piano and a small drum set. They punched out tune after tune of local music and had all the bar singing. Andrei and I were the only europeans there except for a spanish speaking transvestite who seemed to take an interest in us... Not long after saying ´no entiendo´(i dont understand) about a thousand times i decided it was my bedtime. It was 2am afterall.

After Lima it was Huacachina for new years. Huacachina exists only because it is set around a large oasis. Did i mention it was in the middle of the desert now?

So yeah, when we got there we were told we´d be off dune buggying and sand boarding until 6ish when we´d dune buggy further into the desert to set up camp and have new years in the desert.

The dune buggying was amazing fun. Much like a huge never ending roller coaster. Every 15min or so we´d stop for a sand boarding session which was great also.

Once it was dark there was partying to be done. We had a large bonfire set up and the local guys had set up another coal fire for a bbq dinner.

A few drinks later we all decided to head over the dunes to where another tour company had setup something similar to us and we crashed their party and had a blast. At midnight there was fireworks and everything. Something to remember for sure.

We headed back to our place after certain truck drivers got so drunk it was looking like he´d never stop drinking :)

Three hours after getting to bed i had to be up again and on the road to our next port of call. Nasca. I´m there right now and am waiting for our plane to get ready to take us up to see them and take some pictures.

Not much longer till i´m back in civilization with running water