So long, Peru!

We´re getting kicked out of Peru because we´re too big.

Just kidding, our 3 week whirlwind tour is coming to an end and tomorrow we head to La Paz, Bolivia for a couple of days. We´ve been travelling with an awesome group of people with Tucan Travel, the cheapest tour group that we could find, and it´s been one fantastic disaster after another. We´re all around the same age group, mostly Brits and Irish, and everyone shares our thirst for travel and adventure. Tom is the most British person we´ve ever met; tall and lanky, moans about mundane things like the butter being too hard to spread, can´t rap for the life of him and is a superstar on the football field. Aid has the strongest accent I´ve ever heard and half of our conversations our incomprehendable, but he´s a complete gentlemen. Sarah and Nicky are two very lovely English girls, and cracking dancers as well. Jesse and Joel are the youngest Brits and can drink everyone under the table.
Suse is our Australian tour guide and we suspect that she´s a superhero by night. She´s been travelling on every continent, used to be a 18-wheeler truck driver and qualified to be on the Australian olympics team for high jump, and she´s only 28 years old. She conducted an 8 month tour through Africa last year and managed to concoct a different menu for dinner each night. Needless to say, nobody has lost any weight on this tour. Our truck driver is a South African named Vess, and he´s especially great with us and pulls over whenever someone´s rough night out.
As Canadians, we´re obligated to represent our country in all aspects, whether it be through showing our football skills at an altitude of 4000 m or seeing who can dance on the bar until 5am. Being such an international group, we often have stimulating conversations where we´re fielded questions such as ´Why do you call it a washroom when you don´t go there to wash yourselves?´ or ´Why do you use the metric system but still measure height and weight in feet and pounds?´ and my personal favourite ´Why do you club baby seals?´ Because it makes them taste better.
We´ve been having a great time so far, with some of the highlights including sandboarding in the Huacachina desert, watching condors soar on the thermal currents of Colca Canyon and staying with a Peruvian family while wearing their traditional clothing at Lake Titicaca. Only a couple more days in Bolivia before we head home. Tomorrow we´ll explore the markets in La Paz. I hear they sell everything there from uranium to AK-47s, so some of you should expect some interesting souvenirs.

Cheers,
V