Llamas, alpacas and flamingos - oh my!

Fairly quick entry tonight as going for dinner in a bit. Have done such a lot in the last couple of days, driven down to Nazca and flown in a tiny plane over the weird lines in the desert (amazing), been surfing down sand dunes, a 12 hour trip ysterday through the high Andes to get to Cusco from where we head off to Machu Picchu later in the week. We got up to an altitude of 4500m and lots of the group were affected by altitude sickness - the stemetil I packed certainly came in handy! I was actually fine, although the thin air means that you get short of breath really quickly. Not eaten a guinea pig yet, but had goat stew 2 days ago which was pretty tasty, but god only knows what we will be served tonight as the restaurant menus all have alpaca and guinea pig on the menu. Better head off for dinner now, will write more when I next get to a net cafe. Hope you are all well and am looking forward to boring you with my photos!