Welcome to the Jungle, we´ve got fun and games

Right now I am sitting in Puno with Jade, a sexy Kiwi girl! She is going to assist me in my post. Myself, Alana, Karrie, Lorraine, Donna, and Tony flew out to the jungle after our hike on the Inca Trail. The rest stayed behind in Cusco to get sick. The jungle was a lot of fun, we saw parrots, macaws, boaconstrictor, monkeys, caimans, tarantulas, fished for pirranhas, saw giant sea otters, etc. We also we are able to relax in nice hammocks in much warmer weather than we have been, also being able to breathe easy again out of the altitude. I did get bit by a howler monkey, but apparently in didn´t have rabies because I am not sick. It has been pretty fast paced considering within a 24 hour period I was saw Macchu Picchu and slept in a hammock with a monkey in my lap in the Amazon. I got to use a machete and clear a path through the jungle. The foliage was beautiful, with avocados, bananas, starfruit, papayas, lemons, potatoes all growing in the jungle, until of course I cut them down with the machete. On a night boat ride Marco, "Amazon Dundee", wrestled a caiman and then we got to hold it in the boat. We also saw a rodent which looked like a rat the size of a big dog.

Today we took a bus ride from Cusco to Puno, which was seven hours. Jade sat next to me, after abandoning her sick husband Chris and left him with "Doctor" Mike. We slept and talked the whole way down, mostly sleeping trying to avoid Mike and Chris´talking bollocks (I am learning a lot of new phrases from the motherland and the southern hemisphere). Tommorow morning we head to Lake Tit... to stay with locals in their houses. It should be interesting, but unfortunately very cold.

Here personal message from Jade...Elliott is super cool and we want him to move to New Zealand. He is not coming back to America. I am going to set him up with a super hot rich Kiwi girl and he can live next to Chris and I in Christchurch forever. You are all welcome to visit anytime.

Our group on first night on Inka Trail. From left to right...Lorraine, Tony, Karrie, Jo, Chloe, Donna, me (Jade), Chris, Alana, me (Elliott), Mike

View from the Inka Trail

Drinking champagne after arriving at Macchu Picchu (6:30 AM)

Jade, me, Jo, Chloe, and Chris on the Inka Trail, waiting at the top for the others to arrive

Pepe and Me