Originally Posted by
FrogProf
Just spent 10 days in Peru with a group of students. We were in Lima/Miraflores, Cusco, Sacred Valley, and Aguas Calientes/Machu Picchu. I'm happy to report that we didn't have a single mosquito bite the entire trip. Although we all sprayed pretty thoroughly with deet at Machu Picchu, I never saw a single mosquito. A couple of students reported bites from sand flies, but they weren't bad at all.
May I "correct" your English? It's not "
although we sprayed..." but "
because we sprayed...".
One usually
sees mossies only when they come for their lunch/dinner. Thus, when the entire group of students smells like DEET, they'll never approach. I wonder why the sandflies came through, though, as they're equally repelled by DEET. I guess when you say the sand flies' bites were not bad at all, you refer to the number of bites. Because their bites are "normally" much worse than the ones of mosquitoes.