Monday 04/07/11
So after our first day in Cuzco, we had day 2 which was...more relaxing and sight seeing! It was pretty sweet. Here are some views of the beautiful city of Cuzco.
one of the main plazas in Cuzco, the rainbow flag is the flag of Cuzco.
more beautiful buildings of Cuzco!
you get the idea! beautiful buildings with houses that go up into the hills!
Cuzco was by far my favorite large city that we went to. It was beautiful looking up into the hills and seeing the terra-cotta roofs. At least i think they are terra-cotta. You know that classic tiled roof. Susie and I were lucky not to have any symptoms of altitude sickness. We had headaches here and there, and definitely weren't able to move around as quickly as usual, but other than that, nothing! We found a pretty great place to eat named Jack's Cafe. It was super yummy and we had quite a few meals there!
grilled pita and hummus! it was super yummy!
Tuesday- 05/07/11
So then day 3 in Cuzco, that's where the adventure began! Our goal was to go see the sites of crazy names. and yes this is where i have to look back to the pictures of the signs that i took so i can remember the names of them.
We were headed to the archeological site of Saqsaywaman. To get there we took a public bus, which in Peru was a WHOLE lot different than in Chile. We had seat numbers, but as we were heading out a flood of people got on the bus and susie was sitting on the isle seat with a woman's briefcase jamming into her ribs. hahhaa, oh the memories.
We asked the driver to tell us when to get off, and when we finally got there, it was basically us swimming through people to get off of the bus, and then we were on the side of the road...and this is what we looked at.
houses up in the hills.
VIVA EL PERU, in the side of a mountain. so cool!
So as we were walking down the road trying to find these ruins...we were spotted by this men as tourists. Yep, and they offered us a tour of a couple sites on horseback...and we haggled the price down a little bit, and so we hopped on a horse!
Susie on horseback! what an adventure!
So Susie is a speed demon! She kept trying to get her horse to go faster, so our guide would whip the back of her horse, which would then scare my horse...and well. My horse would start running! totally not fair!
We stopped off first at some caves, which weren't really caves but cave-ish.
Susie in the cave
Next we headed to the Temple of the Moon, which is supposed to have good vibes for women. It didn't really seem like a temple to me.
semi stairs there!
Then it was time to get off of the horses and see the sites that we had gone to see in the first place. Qenco, and Saqsaywaman.
Once again we were picked as tourists and offered a tour of these 2 sites. It cost us about 10 bucks, so it was worth it. He was very helpful and told us some information about the sites that we otherwise would not have known.
some archeological site.
where they used to prepare the bodies to be buried. at the site of *kenk-oh* in Quechua.
Susie's cool panorama setting on her camera!
This is the site of Saqsaywaman. Pretty cool! Every rock was brought from the mountains and carried to this site. limestone.
me standing next to the tallest rock, SO TALL, and they moved this with man power.
and the biggest rock.
more than a ton!
Susie and I in the only remaining original entrance.
After exploring the ancient archeological sites, we collected our stuff from the hostel where they let us store it while we were out exploring. We put on our bags and headed down the road to try and find the taxi to Ollantaytambo, which we just ended up calling O-town because it was super hard to say. On that taxi ride, Susie lost one of her sandals on top of the van. Sad day...
We settled into our hostel and i found a bug in my bed! ahhh!
so i slept in my fleece blanket that mom had packed for me. that was the beginning of that trend.
And Ollantaytambo started a whole new adventure!
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