The Plan

I got an email today saying that my passport has been mailed..FINALLY!  And it will be here by Tue. which means that this time next week Ams and I will be in Lima, Peru!  We also finalized our  itinerary.  We are taking a bus  to Chicago to catch an 8 hour flight to Lima...with a 5 hour layover in Florida.   We will spend about a week in Lima and the surrounding areas before flying to Cusco, Peru.  Three days give or take in Cusco to acclimate to the high altitude and then we will be leaving on a 5 day/4 night camping/hiking tour which takes us to Machu Picchu.  After returning from our tour we ill travel by bus, from Cusco to our last city in Peru, Puno.  A few days there and then we will cross Lake Titicaca via ferryboat and arrive in La Paz, Bolivia.  A week in La Paz exploring around and getting accustomed to the Bolivian lifestyle and then we will depart by bus (10 hours) to Sucre, another city in Bolivia with much to see and do.  After a week in Sucre, a three hour bus ride will take us south to Potosi, a city in Bolivia known for its mining.  We will be able to tour around the mines and talk with the locals (if we've picked up enough Spanish along the way).  A few days there and then we have a long bus journey even farther south to Uyuni, Bolivia (the last city on our trip).  We are going there to see Salar de Uyuni, the largest salt flat in the world (4,086 sq. mi.)!!!  And from there we will be back tracking a little to Sucre, the closest town for us to catch a plane.  Me, back to Lima then home.  Amy, to Argentina to wait for her work visa or straight to Brazil to begin her new life!  Thats the plan and we're hoping to stick to it..for the most part.