Trip to Buenos Aires

Like most of you guys might know, it is not good for me to travel alone, because then usually something comes up...
Amanda and me got up very early then to leave to the airport, I think it was not even 6 yet, when we arrived there we had to splitt up, after she was going to Lima and I to Buenos Aires (was a very quick decision I just had made 3 days before). So when I came to the Check-In it was not even opened yet, also it was just an hour before the flight, people werealready lining up big time. Anyhow when they finally started to check luggage, it took at least 45 minutes till everybody had a ticket, then I went to pay airport tax and to the check-in point for the international waiting room... YEAH, what to say, people were lining up again and the woman up front said, I am sorry I can't let anybody in quiet yet, because the airline hasn't confirmed the flight... Hmm, okay I thought, It's still ok, I don't have to switch planes in La Paz and will have 3 hours in Santa Cruz to change.... About an hour later, we were finally allowed to go through the passport check and the self-check-in. The problem then was just, as soon as we were in the international waiting room, which looks like this, a big hall with chairs, about 3 TV's and 2 restrooms, nothing more and freezing cold, an airline representative told us, they don't have a plane yet, so we will have to wait another 2 hours...Bien, everybody just thought great, we are freezing here and they are not even offering to bring in some tea or something... Anyways when the plane was there everything worked out just fine for a few minutes, at least until I was told, because I am having 2 stopps in Bolivia, I have to go through immigration, really nice, getting of the plane, running once around the airport to enter the same plane again, interesting have never been through the paperwork faster. When we arrived in Santa Cruz then, from where I was supposed to fly over Asouncion to Buenos Aires, we were already more then late, but at least a nice Airport Representative greeted us and helped the late comers to still catch the plane... me of course not without complications... I had to get my luggage out and check it back in and get a new ticket, because the connection was with another airline, after this was done. I went to pay airport tax and then to the self-check-in again, which seemed to be fine, till the guy finished searching through my purse and started taking a look at my passport, he decided I travelled to much in the last weeks and had to many south american stamps and was coming from Peru to go over Boliva to Argentina, so he told me, sorry but you have to go into this room over there for a body check for drugs...I just thought thank you, being late was not enough I guess... But lucky me, I still somehow got the plane in the very last minute. Then actually everything went quiet well I stopped in Paraguay and switched flights there, I met a nice scotish girl going to Buenos Aires too and when we finally landed in Argentina, we decided to take a taxi together downtown, after the airport is a bit out of the city and there is not really any public trasportation there. I arrived pretty late at my hostel and went kind of straight to bed to have the next day to explore the City. And it was really great, I had like the best weather ever and saw a lot of the center of the City that day, the next day I was already about to leave again...

Peru - Macchu Picchu

Wow I just saw how far behind I am in writing... Still in Peru, yeah, I kind of wish I was still there...
Lake Titicaca was really great, also the City around, Puno, is not that nice. In the evening of the day we visited the lake, we took a bus towards Cuzco, where we arrived at around 5am in the morning. Like everywhere as soon as we entered the bus terminal tons of people came to us asking if we would like to stay in their hostel or hotel, about an hour later, we made then our finally decision and went with Juri a really nice guy to his hostel, we had 2 nice little rooms for 13 soles a night, what is about 2,50 euros. The first thing in the morning for us was then finding out about the different options we have to visit Macchu Picchu, the great Inka City up in the mountains. Juri explaint us everything, it was just great, to make sure so that we will get the best prize we went in the City to check different travel agencies, after it was sunday we also got a better inside in Peruvian traditions, they had like a little sundays parade festival at the market place, after we finished our research we sat down in one of the little coffeeplaces balconies and enjoyed watching what was going on at the market. Afterwards we booked our trips for the next days, that also meant saying by to some good friends, Lucie and Franzi were going to take another trail then Amanda and me. The rest of the day we enjoyed hanging around the City, which is really beautiful and in the evening we even got the chance to meet up with our friends from Spain and Sweden and Maria and Chris again. 4 o'clock in the morning we said a last goodbye to the girls who left for their trip and then our trip already started as well.
Amanda and me had decided to do a 3 days trip and fly out of Cuzco on the fourth.
The first day started, we got picked up by a bus and drove to a place to pick up others, meet our guia Marco Antonio and get some bikes. When this was done the trip could really start, we drove about 2 hours up into the mountains and arriving there we decided the best thing to do would be put on more clothes, it was soooo freezing. Then ready to rock, everybody got onto a bike and they way down started, after about an hour we made a lunch break with a beautiful view and then went on, it was really great, the sun , the mountains, just everything... In the evening then we drove by bus to another town to stay there over night, I got a bit sick of that ride so and went kind of straight to bed to be fit for the next morning. We got up kind of early and had a nice breakfast and then starting hiking, the first view hours were really nice along waterfalls and through the countryside after lunchbreak so, we had to walk a view hours straight over train tracks, but didnt matter, when it started raining we could finally try out our ponchos, looking totally ridiculous so :D On that hike I also got a chance to talk with our Guide Willian a bit more and hear more about life in Peru. In the evening we were very happy when we finanlly arrived at the hostel, we were a bit afraid, cause everybody who had been there had told us, they had the worst hostel ever there, but surprisingly we got one of the bests we had throughout our whole journey through Peru. This evening Amanda didnt feel so good from the hike, so we decided after we both werent really fit, we will take the bus in the morning up to Macchu Picchu instead of hiking. After a bit of trouble with getting up at 4 in the morning, we took a bus at 5 and met the others right in front of the gate up on top and were even fast enough to catch a ticket to hike up wayna picchu, because only 400 people a day are allowed to go up there, to keep it saver. The first 2 hours up there we had a guide showing us everything and explaining todos. It was really impressive. We also saw the sun rise over the mountains soooooooo nice. Around 10 am then, we just relaxed in the sun, which was another weird point after everybody hd told us the days before they were up there and it was pooring rain, anyways I convinced Amanda to do the hike up Wayna Picchu, we took our time and made stopps all few minutes, but at the end it was really worth it, we had a totally amazing view all around and towards Macchu Picchu. Around 3 or 4 in the afternoon, we took another bus back down to the village, had some lunch and catched our train back towards Cuzco, where we spent the night and got up early to leave for the airport, but thats a totally different story again, I will tell soon. Besos