17th Nov - Day 36
Mr Browns Birthday began with a great breakfast at Jacks Cafe. Nothing new but the foods just to good, and Leroy is fighting a strrawberry milkshake addiction. His Birthday plans were up in the air, as the Inka Trail Relief Samana Spa day i booked fell through due to the spa turning out to be in building sight conditions, oops. After dashing about town, Leroy and I turnedto google and found a beutiful place called Encantada. A boutique offering a relax package. This turned out to be even better than the original plan, a sweet touch of fate.We booked it for the next day to get the most and spent the day wandering around town. We went to the Natural Museum to see some wild life. A selection of birds, snakes and creepy crawlys. I wasn´t really a fan, especially after doing the Inka Trail and seeing most of the animals alive and well ! anyway, we chilled out for the rest of the day, in preperation for what ever the night had in store.
18th Nov - Day 37
Moving to the Spa was fantastic. we checked in to a room with the biggest bed in Peru and enjoyed the day. We went off to the Spa for 3 where we enjoyed a full body massage and facial. The room was filled with tranquil music, insent, flowers and a basket of edible joy. great day finished off with dinner at the hotel, again we had the place the place to ourselves making it fell strangly a little like a honey moon !!!!19th - 25th - Days 38-45
So this was a genral week of eating at different interesting places and hostel hopping. We´ve decided that this would be a great time to also organise our next big adventure to the Amazon Jungle. We moved into a new hostel `The View point´ and met with our Inka Trail group for drinks. The next day we foun a place calle The Real Mcoy for roast dinner, ow how i´d missed gravy. We can start to see the rain season kick in a little more, saw the biggest storm today. On the 21st we ran away from our hostel. (leaving them money for what we´d had obviously) It was the worst hostel, When we got ther the bed had bugs on it from the wodden beams above, they sorted it straight away so we let it slide, they had quite a few dirty cats and dogs that made nosie during the night, somthing that happens regulary in Peru so we also let that slide, in the morning they played the worst generic party music, it was annoying but the view and room was so nice and cheap, we where willing to put up with it ! The final straw was when they had the biggest faf trying to get my shower to work, in the end they offered me the dirtiest room to take a shower in, with the dapiest smelly dog imaginable. No thanks ! we packed then ran. Football at Paddy´s bar with a beer made it all better.
For all fellow traveler´s here is a check list of important things to check and ask when finding a good hostel.
Find out if they have what you want (in our case a matrimonial room) and the price.
Always ask for a disscount if your staying more than 3 nights, especially out of season.
Always ask to see the room before you say yes to anything. (sit on the bed, bit extreme but its surprising what you feel and find)
See what´s included for the price, breakfast, internet, heaters and any extra costs they want to through in.
See what time breakfast stops, if your not up in time for it why pay for it !
Our new home was a hidden gem in San Blas, Inti Quilla. peaceful clean with a huge tree growing in the middle of the court yard. That evening we found a gay bar-restarant for dinner, with the most elaborate decor we´d ever seen.bath tub tables with fish in, a massive selection of out there art and lots of cherub pigs on the ceiling.
We found a great Indian on the 22nd, Kormasutra! so great to have something different. Peruvian food can be great but sometimes you just need more variety, something england really provides. its interesting going from bar to restarant to understand what the altitude effects. When up high the things can no longer exsist are:
Yorkshire Puddings, celling the deal that leroy could never live up high.
Popadoms
Light pastry´s
Guiness on tap, ow well!
Some lovely flowers Mr Leroy got me xxx
So now it was time to get ready for the Jungle. We´ve gone with highly recommended company called Amazon Trails. and we´re heading in deeper to a place called Manu. a few days of faffing and we were ready to get in and amoungst the jungle.
