great night out in cusco. we asked a local woman, who looked like the clubgoing type, to tell us which nightclubs on the lonelyplanet list were good. she recommended xtreme and mama africa, which were actually right beside each other. started off with a 1L of ron between several of us that we scored for 11.80 sol and then headed out. as soon the 7 of us squeezed out of the 5 (-1 seat for driver) man cab, we were swarmed by promoters practically begging us to go to their night club. free drink vouchers were given out.. i got 7 for xtreme, and we started there. wasn´t bad, but too many gringos, so we moved on to mama africa, which was absolutely rammed. stayed there until about 4 or 5, then the last few of us pushed on to another club. contrary to the friendly and upbeat atmosphere found in the prior two, we were faced with an unwelcoming bouncer and a club that appeared to be half full of poorly disguised prostitutes and had no shortage of coke dealers. we quickly made our move and headed back to our hostel. chris and i, restless, went out and got some breakfast then came back for sleep. i woke up about 2 or 3 hours later and continued on the day.. so i´m typing this in the hostel at 9:32pm with only 3 hours sleep in the last 36ish hours.
doesn´t sound quite as exciting but i had to leave out the good bits to protect the innocent... oh yeah and chris got naked on a stage in mama africa. good man.

won´t be able to write for at least 3 more days. i have to be up bright and early at 8:30am for a 4 and a half hour bus ride into the wilderness to camp and white water raft. then it´s off to machu picchu via train and la paz via bus.