Around the World III

Day 31 - Wed 2 May 07 - Cuzco, Peru

Up early for breakfast and then down to the square to pickup my tour. There was a lot of to'ing and fro'ing as a few tour agencies pooled their clients to fill a single bus, by 09:00 we're off and the first stop is Pisaq with a stop in the market. I skipped that and found a cafe with a balcony. I got a cup of tea and a cookie and watched all the shopping taking place below.

Then it was onto the sacred valley proper, we were shown around a number of Inca ruins, which were interesting but didn't really grab me for sum reason. A long walk there and a long walk back. I'm sitting next to a Japanese guy on the bus who loved my attempts at Japanese.

We stopped at Urubamba for lunch and almost everyone went to the 'official' restaurant. However I headed up the street looking for some bread and cheese. Eventually I found a shop with some bread, but the cheese wasn't to be found. The owner started going on about 'Polo' - so I said 'ok' thinking I was going to get some chicken. In the end I got two very nice fried egg rolls, and a coke for 4 Sols.

Back on the bus to Ollantambo for more ruins, terraces and some grain stores perched on the side of a mountain opposite. The final stop of the day was a church in Chinchero, but the sunset over the snow capped mountains while we were there was the real highlight.

Then is was back to Cuzco for a pizza at Chez Maggy - v.nice, and over to the Cross Keys a british pub transferred to Latin America, chatted to a couple of nurses who are on leave for three months. Back to the hotel were I paid my bill as I have (another) early start tomorrow.