Hey there peeps,
By now most of you are aware of the natural disaster in this area. According to the local paper I just picked up 19 people have died, 9 of which are at the Macchu Picchu site. Many families have been displaced from their homes. Across the road from our hotel are now temporary houses- tents were set up for the families who´s homes were covered under mud. We moved out of our hotel that next day as it was under direct threat of more sliding mud and buildings from above! We decided that as we really couldnt help in any way that we would do something nice for the kids near our hotel. Teagan, Jodes and I went and found a newsagent (for lack of a better word!) bought coloring books, pencils and sharpners then found a bakery and bought yummy pastries. Jumped into a taxi and gave them out to the kids in the tents, those kids were loving us!
They have had such bad weather it has been really hard for them to get helicopters in there to get people out. They only had 1 heli for 2500 people taking 25 people at a time. I did notice today that there was 3 choppers in the sky and the weather today has been greatly improved.
So within this we are obviously NOT going to get to Macchu Picchu, Boo Hiss. But what you gonna do? Everything happens for a reason and that is the perfect excuse for me to have my plan of coming back and buying a punch buggy to cruise around in, see stuff, go trekking, climbing, diving the list goes on....
Celebrated Aussie day for the last 2 days, we started in Aussie time then when it really was the 26th here......... UUUUUUGGGGGGGG alcohol free day today....
Yes things are bad here, but we are ok! Flying out of Cusco tomorrow back to Lima, where there has been a minor Tsunami! Oh and the day after we left Peurto Inca there was an earthquake 5.3 on the scale! and everyone was worried about us getting kidnapped! HA!!!! WHATS NEXT!!!!!! Def considering getting punch buggy and driving to Colombia to see Steveo and go diving........ surely the wave of destruction wont follow us there!
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Oh and I met 2 Americans who were choppered out of there this morning, the only reason they got out was because they had run out of their medication. They said it was pretty crazy in there.
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