Nothing to report today, just moved from one place to the next. This is my last destination before returning to Lima, tomorrow I'll spend the day visiting the natural reserves here, see some penguins and if I'm lucky wild dolphins.

Let me list some weird and noteworthy things about Peru:

• When you order a Coke here, they invariably ask if you want it warm or cold. To me that's like asking if you want alcohol in your beer or tobacco in your sigarette, but apparently many Peruvians prefer warm Coke.
• US Dollars are used for many large transactions here, so I brought USD from Belgium. It turned out the ATM's here can feed you USD as well, but there's something very special about my own USD: whenever I hand out some of the 2$ bills I got, this causes cheers of joy with the recipient who will often call other people to come and watch the treasure. Apparently 2$ bills are a very rare and wanted collectors' item here.
• If you read my Middle East report, you may remember me raving about encountering herds of Dodge Coronets (the car from the Dukes of Hazzard) in Syria. Well, Peru has even more of them, and I found large concentrations of them driving around in some suburbs of Arequipa for example, where they were simply the most common car. In Nazca the car that got me to the necropolis was a Dodge Coronet (and the German girl who was in my group looked just like Daisy Duke, mmmm), and the driver could tell me why there are so many in Peru: the Dodge Coronet was the token Peruvian police car in the 70s, and later the police sold off all their cars to second hand dealers.