Paragliding – Everything flying should be!!! Imagine a dream – one where you can effortlessly step off a cliff top (say over a Peruvian beach at sunset - though it’s your dream) and float effortlessly up on eddies of warm soft air, holding and supporting you where you want, letting you reach out and touch the palm tree canopy with your feet , wafting higher past sky scraper roof tops, effortlessly gliding with a flock of seagulls and then feeling the soft breeze through your hands descending in a new direction. Now realise you are 100% awake and this experience cost you 50 bucks. Possibly the most fun you can have in 10 minutes with all your clothes on, and it’s legal. Seriously thinking of getting into the game... maybe when i settle down :)
Other highlights so far include visiting the Isle of Ball... which is known as a kind of poor man’s Galapagos. The islands are home to thousands of birds lots of cormorants, pelicans, seagulls and boobies, as well as some sea lions. Much as I like seeing boobies and birds of a feather, one generally tries to avoid the associated white sticky mess. These Islands are composed almost entirely of guano. Ok that’s not true, but they are literally covered in shit. As there are no building materials around they literally build their nests out of guano, and thus shit in the nest. Once every few years people go to the islands armed with shovels and spend months poop-skooping as guano is a major export of peru.
On a more pleasant note i have spent the last two days at a desert oasis tearing up sand dunes on my board and with the dune buggy. Lots of fun followed by lots of lazing around and talking to people. I never realised that Peru had deserts but after driving Hour after hour after hour on buses (with reclining seats and WiFi) I found out it had deserts aplenty. This one is the world’s driest and is used my NASA to test life detection equipment among other things.
While Yes buses are notoriously dangerous as far as crashes / hijacking / and so forth - they are the only way to get around and on the imperial (10x the price of the chicken transports locals sometimes use) you can at least do it with the luxury and relative safety of modern technology (eg. seatbelts and winscreens made of glass), Wifi, and a Peruvian vegemite and cheese sandwich.
Paragliding – Everything flying should be!!! Imagine a dream – one where you can effortlessly step off a cliff top (say over a Peruvian beach at sunset - though it’s your dream) and float effortlessly up on eddies of warm soft air, holding and supporting you where you want, letting you reach out and touch the palm tree canopy with your feet , wafting higher past sky scraper roof tops, effortlessly gliding with a flock of seagulls and then feeling the soft breeze through your hands descending in a new direction. Now realise you are 100% awake and this experience cost you 50 bucks. Possibly the most fun you can have in 10 minutes with all your clothes on, and it’s legal. Seriously thinking of getting into the game... maybe when i settle down :)
Other highlights so far include visiting the Isle of Ball... which is known as a kind of poor man’s Galapagos. The islands are home to thousands of birds lots of cormorants, pelicans, seagulls and boobies, as well as some sea lions. Much as I like seeing boobies and birds of a feather, one generally tries to avoid the associated white sticky mess. These Islands are composed almost entirely of guano. Ok that’s not true, but they are literally covered in shit. As there are no building materials around they literally build their nests out of guano, and thus shit in the nest. Once every few years people go to the islands armed with shovels and spend months poop-skooping as guano is a major export of peru.
On a more pleasant note i have spent the last two days at a desert oasis tearing up sand dunes on my board and with the dune buggy. Lots of fun followed by lots of lazing around and talking to people. I never realised that Peru had deserts but after driving Hour after hour after hour on buses (with reclining seats and WiFi) I found out it had deserts aplenty. This one is the world’s driest and is used my NASA to test life detection equipment among other things.
While Yes buses are notoriously dangerous as far as crashes / hijacking / and so forth - they are the only way to get around and on the imperial (10x the price of the chicken transports locals sometimes use) you can at least do it with the luxury and relative safety of modern technology (eg. seatbelts and winscreens made of glass), Wifi, and a Peruvian vegemite and cheese sandwich.
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