Feb 8th 2007- Cusco, Peru

Most people on the tour had come down with altitude sickness today and different levels effecting each individual differently. The first nite, no many people have much sleep at all. I only slept for about 3 hours and seem to lost apetite and not eating much at all, which is not like me. But this is good as I need to lose the extra weight I am carrying since Xmas. My eyes are bloodshot!!!! and this is due to the altitude. At least I am lucky, the others are having bouts of vomiting, headaches and shortness of breathe. A few actually pulled out of the tour today to recover in their rooms.

Today we are off to the Scared Valley, Pisac Markets and Ollaytomboo. Got a glimpse of a village lifestyle and to see the staple food...ginnea pigs!!!! They looked so cute and they are supposed to be very delicious!!!!! Yuck!!!!

We got to a ruins in the Scared Valley. Just climbing the steps, my heart was beating like mad and had to stop and rest every 6-7 steps as the high altitude is really effecting us badly. Tightness of the chests and light headedness. The ruins is such a amazinf feat for the Incas civilisation to have built such a momument with the basic tools they have then. I still believed that there were aliens intervention then in that era. What an advanced civilisation. Here I seen lots of the locals in their finest tranditional costumes. The children are so beautiful and they seems to be very gentle people.

I also saw my first Peruvian alpalca and llama and even get to touch them. One of the guys got spitted at!!! ahahah, he derserved it. The same guy got humped by the llama as well. What does it says about him????? hmmmm.....

Brad and Cameron birthdays today and Anna has organised two surprise cakes with balloons and champagne to go around. What a lovely gesture. They all went out for dinner and a spot of clubbing. A few of us piked out because of exhaustion and sickness. I still have no apetite and my eyes are killing me from the reddish and soreness. I will try to get some sleep tonight. I won't be surprise that I have already lost some weight as my pants are a wee bit loose!!!!.