Lima tour / meet and great

Today we met our tour guide (2 Days in) lol, and we met the rest of our tour group. basically something happened to another guide in the jungle and theres a few of us that have now been grouped together, 15 in our group. all aussies i think, and as usual theres 1 or 2 classic characters. you know the type. the larikins of the bunch, the people you hear from across the street with an aussie accent and realise ... yep he's an aussie. but then you get chattin and realise that these are the people to hang with, the cool ones, the ones who are on your level, traveling for fun, taking everything as it comes and not living to a pre guided "tour plan"

funny thing is we are the only 20 year olds on the tour, making us initially the odd ones out. the rest of the group being mostly 35 to 65 year old. yeh 65, we have a granny aboard that kicks ass! acting like a 20 year old and drinking the guys under the table. in our western culture we tend to put our elderly out to pasture, pass them off as taking up space. think we need to remember they are the wise ones. even if they cant work that new mobile phone :)

anyway back to the tour, we are the new commers, everyone else is on a 28 day major South American tour, not just Peru. we basically fly in just to do Machu Picchu. 8 Days in total. one thing im getting now is this is it. no turning back, no flying or driving back home. we're on for the long haul. its a strange feeling i keep getting. kinda like this isnt me doing this. outa body experience, this is someone else on the trip of a lifetime, its so far from the norm.

few more pics of Miraflores, coastal front. giving you an idea of the beach and cliff face. the air currents pushing up from the ocean up the cliffs provide air streams perfect for Paragliding. the launch from the cliffs fly out over the beach and back again, never dropping to hit the highway below.






Cheech makes a quick getaway ! :)