Clostridium, Capitals and Coming down slopes very quickly

Hello again. Things have moved on apace since last we spoke. We´ve been to not just one but TWO new places, which is a lot, and doesn´t even include the places we just passed through. We stayed in Iquitos (biggest city in the world which is not accessible by road) for a few days, and went to a butterfly farm where this happened:

You´ll notice that that clearly isn´t a butterfly. We were outraged and left.
Afterwards we went out for dinner and ate some alligator, which was very nice but unfortunately made me violently ill. A torturous plane journey across the country ensued, and we were forced to spend an enormous amount of money on a lavish hotel in Lima to help me recouperate. Sadly our schedule didn´t allow us much time to hang out and see the sights (not even the amazing Llama Woman - see below), and we had to get on a bus out the very next afternoon.  Buses in Peru are RIDONCULOUS. Despite being very cheap thay are like hotels on wheels - people come round and serve you soft drinks and full-on cooked dinners, there are blankets, pillows and the like, you can actually LIE DOWN, there are movies to watch and EVERYTHING - we arrived in Nazca and had to be dragged off. Luckily the hotels in Peru are also like hotels, but don´t have wheels, which means they are as comfortable as the buses and easier to find. We stayed in one of those for a while, and went out on some excursions.
Today we have done something amazing, which made us look like this:

We had to get up at half 3 in the morning because otherwise you die of heat exhaustion, and then climb up the biggest sand dune in the world (2080 metres), which was very hard (not literally of course, because it´s made of sand). Then we strapped planks of wood to our legs and threw ourselves down again. It was excellent - you can go really fast and stuff. It´s almost impossible to stop but that doesn´t matter because it´s also very difficult to hurt yourself. Since we got up so early we still had most of a day left, which we´ve spent eating a number of avodados. Soon it´s time for a Pisco Sour or two, and then it´s off to the bus. Next stop - Cusco.

Oh, and the thing with the Llama Lady - basically someone wanted to build a big statue of someone famous in a square in Lima. Since they wanted to convey an image of power, glory, dignity etc, they asked the sculptor to give her a crown of flames. Unfortuntely the poor chap wasn´t really familiar with the use of that particular artistic metaphor, and since the Spanish word for "flame" is "llama" he gave her one of those instead. HA!