The craziness begins....

Well I guess it has been a few days since I last wrote, it was a combination of having too much fun and not having good access to a computer for any length of time. So since it is currently445 in the morning and I am sitting in the Ezeiza airport of Buenos Aires, I thought that there would probably be no better time to write than now.

Our last week and a half in Chile was great. The day after I wrote last I drug a couple of my amigos (Bren, EJ and Josh) up that little mountain called La campana. It was a fairly steep hike and I made us nearly jog the first part of it because I was scared we would not have time to get to the top. More than half of the hike was done in the snow, but the view at the top was well worth it. We had a stunning view of the Andes mountains, the costal mountain range, and the coast including Valparaíso. Later in the week, the whole group went back to the same mountain but only hiked for a little while on the opposite side we climbed, which was quite a different area, with huge chilean palms and no snow.

Brent, Josh, and I left Viña a day early to go visit Santiago. We had a good time riding hopin on and off different modes of public transport to get there. Basically Santiago, is one of the dirtiest places I´ve been because of trash and the insane amount of smog. We saw a couple cool places including the main plaza and the presidents house La Moneda (litterally the coin)

The whole group met in the Santiago Airport and it was off to Buenos Aires. Buenos Aires in contrast to Santiago, is much more beautiful and I could see myself visiting there again in a heartbeat. We had a city tour, that hit some highlights of the city including the famous cemetery Recoleta, which was right next to our Hotel. Eva Perón is buried here, and this isn´t your ordinary cemetary. Its jam packed with4500 mausoleums that are owned by extremely wealthy Argentians. Each one is different and can hold quite a few bodies.

We also visited another Ranch, but here the cowboys are gauchos. Two nights ago we went to see a Tango show. It was a full hour and a half event with empanadas and wine. The tango is quite, the intimate dance... and that´s putting it mildly!

Yesterday the group left the hotel at around 6pm and I was all by myself. Honestly it was a little bit frightening, being alone in a foreign country and not knowing exaclty what I was going to be doing for the next 18 days. I calmed myself down with a little walk outside and reminded myself that the fact that I had less than 4 hours of sleep the night before, and I had to see all my new friends go home, was probably effecting my emotional state slightly!

So now here I am, after a refreshing 3 hours sleep last night because I had to take a taxi to the Airport at 330am! But hey you can sleep on the plane right!? I´m not quite sure where I will be staying in Lima, but I do know that I leave for Cuzco at 6am on the 6th and that I will book a hostel ahead of time.

Now the adventure begins.