Monkeys and Cunape

1. On Wednesday 11 giddy and energy filled girls got on a Semaipata bound bus. Semaipata is a tow a few hours southwest of Santa Cruz. We are exchange students, we were very exited to all be together and on a fun trip. We stopped at an Hipermaxi yelling "Hipermaxi!! Hipermaxi!!". It is a large grocery store where you can find everything, even the rare american things we often miss. We loaded up with Cunape, a cheesy bread that is famous among the us girls and a Santa Cruz specialty, and soda and junk food. We laughed and sang and danced for hours, when we finally arrived we jumped off the bus and ran around the small town that consisted of a few touristy type shops, a beautiful plaza, and lots of stray dogs and dirt houses. We "bopped" around, one of our favorite words to say, for a little while just seeing the town and then dropped off our things at the hostal and went to dinner. We were all pretty tired so after dinner we all went back to the hostal and hung out and chatted for hours. The rooms were 3 beds to a room, mine had 5, it was a very fun night!! The next day we woke up early and went to an ADORABLE little Belgian cafe, complete with an herb garden, a horse, and gourmet food that was so great I had tomato soup for breakfast. We spent some time just sitting in awe at how absolutely beautiful the place was and the amazing hills around us.                                                                 After breakfast we went to a Zoo where monkeys climbed on us!! They were all so cute and so friendly, we had a blast laughing at each other being scared of the big black monkey with long arms and a tiny head named Simon that was really friendly. One of them climbed on my Canadian friend Kirsten and it was very cute until it started making a really scary noise and then began poking her face, her face was priceless and even though she looked scared we were on the ground laughing. It was all so fun and put us in a good mood.                                                                                                  The next place we went was some Incan ruins, we took a tour of the incredible ruins on top of a mountain. We learned why they made their home in that certain spot and some of their habits and history. It was fun thinking that people were right where we were standing over 3,000 years ago. We laughed and made up stories about how the Incans may have been aliens or taken by aliens because they just disappeared and no one knows what happened.                                                                            We stopped briefly in Semaipata again for water and snacks and it was off again to our wonderful city of Santa Cruz, and we all went home and slept because were all pretty tired and sore from hiking up to the ruins.                                                                                                                                                               It was an amazing trip I am so happy I went and I had a wonderful time with the girls, it was a girls trip and we all had tons of fun together.