In any case, I had an incredible time. And I’ll quickly tell you how it went down: the Australian friend I met in Cuenca came out of nowhere one day and we had a few cold ones while playing ping pong. Later, some Peruvians arrived and challenged us to some ping pong games, we bet some beers and we kicked their asses, then we had some more beers. Little by little the group got bigger. My roommates arrived, one from England and one from Switzerland, good people. My Australian friend had a fight with the English girl. Later, a group of German men and women, from Ireland and the USA, joined. We all went to the bar and had a few shots before going to an after party. I couldn’t film how they make the drinks but the idea is that throughout the bar they put a row of shots on a glass with alcohol, then they make the shots fall into the glass as if it were dominoes and then you drink, and then they charge you to your tab. I think I have a video of that but in the Loki of Cusco, you’ll see that soon enough, we’re almost there.

So, 3 out of 4 nights were like this. I remember that on the 2nd day a Chilean arrived and then a German (by the way, these rooms are shared by 8 to 16 people, they are bunk beds, it is cheaper, made for backpackers). I’m sending greetings now to my Chilean friend if you are reading this, to Francisco, a pilot who came on vacation for 2 weeks and his final destination was Montañita. With him and the roommates we bought a pisco bottle (Franciso said that pisco is originally from Chile, Peruvians will say otherwise) and filled them into empty water bottles to take them back to the hostel (they don’t let you bring any alcohol in the Loki, in fact, they check your bags when you check in). After a while the new German roommate arrived, whom we integrated into the group and we had the pisco. The German was inspired and told us “those who say that they cannot travel is because they really do not want to travel, those who say that they can only travel a few days because they don’t have more money to continue then those people really do not want to travel anymore, because if you want to travel you will find dozens of ways to do it without spending money”. The translation is lost a bit, I don’t know if his words were exactly like that, I put some of mine as well, but in any case the moral was that: if you want to travel for a consecutive long time, you will achieve it one way or another (legally of course) and money is not a limiter, although surely there are others (such as children). And it’s true, you can travel without money, I’ll tell you how later in other blogs.