This is the true story of my adventures in learning Spanish and teaching English in South America.

Thursday, June 19, 2008

The impending weekend

It's been awhile since I've gotten out of Cusco, and I think this weekend, it's time. We have a 4-day weekend coming up, since everyone will be too busy worshipping the sun to bother with English class on Monday and Tuesday. While I definitely don't want to miss that, I'll be getting out of town on Saturday and Sunday to watch a sunrise. Here's what Lonely Planet has to say:

The view of the mountains dropping away into the Amazon Basin here [Tres Cruces] is gorgeous in itself, but from May to July it's made all the more magical by the sunrise phenomenon that optically distorts the dawn into a multicolored light show with double images, halos and unusual tints.

Sounds pretty cool, huh? At the moment, I'll be going with two other couples, since I do so enjoy being the fifth wheel (insert sarcastic face emoticon here) and I'll freeze my you-know-what off camping, but I think it will be a good time.

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