You might feel a Little Dizzy but that is just normal... try and sleep on the Bus.

"You might feel a Little Dizzy but that is just normal... try and sleep on the Bus." When we first heard this phrase two things came to mind 1. Are they joking? 2. What is going to happen to us? Well as it turns out when you have lived your whole life at sea level you really have no chane in the Andes! So we traveled to the largest Canyon in the world and saw some pretty amazing things!

We started our travels by getting on a bus at 7:40am (which is not our earliest departure to date but still pretty early.) When we started to pick up other passengers we quickly realized we would be speaking five different languages. Most of the people on our bus were pretty cool, some not so cool. We got to hangout with a family from Cusco, who said they would hook us up with a hostel when we got there. They were seriously awesome... we called them our family and took a few pictures with them (which will soon be up as soon as we learn how to put them online.) We also got to chill with this really cool life traveler from Switzerland. She even gave us her leftover sandwiches because we were too cheap and sick to pay for a fancy lunch... we will talk about that more in a sec. So we had a pretty cool bus of peeps and an awesome tour guide, hollar at LEO!

Alright so back to living at Sea level your whole life... ummm you can´t breathe in the Andes and or feel like crap for a while when you first get there. Jo as we started to ascend started to decline in health, but pulled through in a few hours. Due to our cheapness and feeling sick we even sat out in the rain during a fancy buffet lunch because the smell of food made Jo want to puke!

After Jo slept it off we walked around the coolest or "lo maximo" town we have been to as of now, CHIVAY. It is so cute and people still do agriculture bartering. We walked around bartered a little ourselves and now are proud owners of an Alpaca beanie (Jo) and an Alpaca scarf (Aly). We will have to post pictures so you can truely understand the awesomeness that is Chivay.

Later that night we met back up with our bus homies and went out for a little dinner, music and dancing. The place was hopping and we tried Alpaca steak for the first time, which may we say is delicious. Thank you little Alpacas for being so cute and so good to eat! There was a really cool band and dancers that performed traditional music and dance. In the end we couldn´t help ourselves and ended up on the dance floor raising the roof and thunder clapping. All in all freestyle was encouraged and we had a great time.

Though we were tired from dancing the next morning we got up at 5:30 am to have a little bite to eat and then go see the Canyon of Colca and Condors. The Canyon was absolutely beautiful as were the villages and people surrounding it. We hiked for about an hour and Aly experienced Asthma. I, Aly , can honestly say I have never been so scared of passing out in my life! I could not get a full breathe of air... Jo said she would carry me up the mountain and I thought she was going to have to. Luckily we both made it and say four condors today. Which checked one item off Jo's bucket list. It was amazing to see them in real life. We had an awesome day in the Canyon!

On the way back we admired our new favorite animal Vicunas. They look like they would be friends with the Brown Barbaloots from the Lorax. They are so adorable, kind of a mix between a baby deer and Llama(which we also saw and took pictures with). Get excited we will have photos up soon!

Okay so we are off on an adventure of itself to find food that is not delicious street food that will tempt us and make us sick, the temptation is becoming too much no promises! Love you all! Adventure is out there!

P.S. Brian Crater no bugs yet but we are still freaking out about them thanks... say hi to the mountain for us!