It All Started With A Bus Ride

so we left really late on Wednesday the 14th 

we climbed onto a bus from Vina to Santiago

It’s about a 2 hour ride 

got to the bus station found a taxi and headed off to the airport

we got to spend 8 lovely overnight hours in the airport hanging out at Dunkin Donuts 

(I tried a Boston Manjar yesterday and it was just pure joy in my mouth)

so our flight left Santiago at 7 AM

we flew PAL airline from what I can understand it like the last choice of Chileans 

but I think it was pretty nice besides the face that the cockpit door would sling open when we took off

and we took off like 3 times it stopped like in 3 cities on the way up to Arica

Once we landed in Arica we grabbed a taxi and headed off across the border

It takes about an hour and a half to get across the border and to the next destination Tacna Peru

In Tacna we grabbed the first bus out  

we also grabbed some food because by this time it was like 1 and we still had not eaten yet

our bus left at like 1:30 Peru time (3 PM Chile time) 

this bus ride was about 7 hours long to Arequipa Peru

it was a pretty smooth bus ride through the desert of Peru

we got into Arequipa around like 9ish or so 

our next bus left at 9:30 

it was an overnight bus to Cuzco

this is where all the action took place

about 4 hours into the 12 hour ride I woke up really sick

I woke Tawni up because I was kind of freaking out a bit

I never get sick and I just knew that the food we ate earlier made me sick

So I proceed to the restroom on the bus

and at the same time I get up to go Phil wakes up really sick to

but he was really dizzy 

Tawni was passing out drugs to us and Phil was not responding 

so she just forced this pill down his throat

I somehow manage to get back to the seat after laying in the floor the of the bus in the back 

and then the floor next to our seat

I climb up in the seat with Phil and we sit in misery for a few minutes

I made it back to my seat and was miserable the rest of the bus ride

We make it to Cuzco and by this time it’s Friday the 16th 

we head off to get our tickets into Machu Picchu and our train tickets there

our train was from a town about an hour and a half away so we had to grab this taxi van thing 

it was so pretty driving through the country side of Peru

our train left from a really cute town called Ollantaytambo

we made out train and headed out to Machu Picchu city

as soon as we stepped off the train we were swamped with people wanting us to stay here or buy this

it was super overwhelming but we found a cute little hostel along the river

Macchu Picchu city is really small and literally the only thing to do was shop

so when did we do? 

well we shopped for hours

we all got some really fun stuff

Peru is really cheap compared to Chile

this was the most stressful part of the trip

we were rushing to get to Machu Picchu because this was the main thing on our to-do list

we made it 1904.8 miles in less than days
It was defiantly the most tiring part of the trip but still super fun!