Lets play catch up!!

This post will be a rapid recounting of the past couple weeks that we have left you all in the dark on. The past several days have been filled with travel. The material is thin and the activities have been scarce, therefore you have missed nothing. I guess travellers always reach a point in moving throughout entire countries when certain stops are obligatory, where nothing really happens but a bed and a day or two of rest is necessary. Leaving Huaraz, we headed to Lima (one of those obligatory stops). We wanted to go to Lima for one: just to say we went and two: because it is a meeting point for travelling south on the Panamerican Highway to other Peruvian hot spots. After a long over nighter from the mountains, we spent our first day in Lima sleeping it off. Good thing we woke up with a lot of energy because we treated ourselves to a night out in the trendy Barranco in the south part of Lima. The next day again, we were somewhat lethargic from the previous night´s activities and chose to spend the hot hot afternoon in the movie theater enjoying a Peruvian film ¨La Teta Asustada¨. Another day in Lima was spent seeing the sights and then we continued south. Lunahuana, a town is Peru´s southern wine country, was our next stop. We were so excited about the oncoming harvest festival where we heard speak of free wine samples but were dissapointed to find the town nearly deserted upon arrival (although free wine samples were still easy to find). The trip to wine town would have been a total bust if it weren´t for the Aussie couple we met on the first night. For the next few evenings, we met up with our new friends for Pisco drinks in the plaza and fresh crawfish soup dinners. We even went whitewater rafting with them one day and had a really good experience with that. It´s the end of the rainy season so the water is really high. After another pitstop in Paracas, Peru, we moved on to Ayacucho where we are now. Cuzco is in the near future and Machu Picchu! More on that very soon.