Písac

I met up with Sean &Monika at Jacks for brekkie where I met Chris, an Englishman they had been talking about for ages. They've been waiting for him to turn so I would have a drinking partner. It seems he got stuck in La Paz for 4 days whilst protests blocked all the roads to Peru. He tried every day to leave, but each time the 12 hour bus trip simply returned him back to La Paz!

Leaving Chris behind Sean, Monika &I catch a bus to Pisac - a huge Inca ruin site. Better than that, it was a warrior fortress! In Pisac we take a taxi to the top of the ruins - the idea being we explore them working our way down, rather than up! Not long after us, coach loads of day walking American tourists up - run! They're coming, they're coming! Head for the hills! So we did, off the beaten track to the top of the fortress where Sean and I stripped off and acted like Inka Gods, commanding our puny troops below.

When Monika got bored of our little game she headed down, back the way we came. Sean &I climbed down a slippery slope to meet her only she had taken a wrong turn and was a different trail which bypassed most of the cool ruins. Sean and I spent our time looking at the ruins and playing, "Where's Monika?" looking down at the paths below. It was a wicked scramble around, shame Monika missed it!

Walking into Pisac we had a good mooch around the market, a late lunch and picked up a couple of souvenirs. We also shared a bottle of a popular local soft drink, the bright yellow Inka Cola. It was to be the first of many. I am now addicted to the stuff. (But maybe not as much as Downsy is addicted to Coke!) In the evening we met up with Chris at Cafe Ritual for dinner. When Sean &Monika announced their early night Chris and I decided to continue drinking. Sean, acting all fatherly as he left, warned us, "No Coke-n-Whores!" Especially as we'd booked ourselves in for a day of White Water Rafting tomorrow. "No Coke-n-Whores!" Shesh! Who does he think we are? Well, here's how most of the night went...

At the Kamikase pub bar we took advantage of a cheap Cubra Libra offer and left 4 large glasses later. Swiftly followed by a free Cubra Libra at the Up Town Club. When I told Chris it was full of Israelis he didn't understand that it's FULL of Israelites! So we left for Mamma Africas. A beer later he got fed up with Gringos so we left for Casanovas, a strip club with a 20 sol (£4) entrance fee. There I was treated to an hostess for the night, and boy, she had the cutest, most perfect body I've ever had the pleasure of um, yeah! (Face wasn't bad either!) I finally left at 04:30 and only realised how drunk I was when I tried to order a taxi back to the plaza with extremely slurred speech.

Posted by Steve Eynon