Cuzco, Peru
We arrived at Cuzco, after our 20 hour ride, in the afternoon and decided to take it easy as we didn´t know how will the altitude affect us.
Our Inca Trail trip was going to start in about a day and a half, so in the meantime we were enjoing the city and even took a city tour that turned out to be a waste of time. We should have listened to the "Good Book" and gone to the same sites ourselves by bus.
There were two great highlights for us this day. One is that on the main plaza we ran into a Peruvian Children´s Choire that was practicing for some big performance.
The second one was just a bit of a surprise. On the city tour, when entering one of the sites, there was a Peruvian man who held up an old film camera and kept clicking away at the tourists passing by. We didn´t mind much. Shurik even asked him for one sole like the locals do when you take their picture.
About two hours later, as we were boarding the bus to go to another site, the man with the old camera appeared again. This time he had postcards for us with local attractions and ourselves on them! I was amazed by the ingenuity. To think that this man has taken hundreds of pictures, developed them, pasted them onto a postcard, and then found us among the many visitors of the site, was almost unbelievable.
Oh yeah, and today was the day Shurik tryed "Cuy". The local delicacy, also known as Guinea Pig.
Our Inca Trail trip was going to start in about a day and a half, so in the meantime we were enjoing the city and even took a city tour that turned out to be a waste of time. We should have listened to the "Good Book" and gone to the same sites ourselves by bus.
There were two great highlights for us this day. One is that on the main plaza we ran into a Peruvian Children´s Choire that was practicing for some big performance.
The second one was just a bit of a surprise. On the city tour, when entering one of the sites, there was a Peruvian man who held up an old film camera and kept clicking away at the tourists passing by. We didn´t mind much. Shurik even asked him for one sole like the locals do when you take their picture.
About two hours later, as we were boarding the bus to go to another site, the man with the old camera appeared again. This time he had postcards for us with local attractions and ourselves on them! I was amazed by the ingenuity. To think that this man has taken hundreds of pictures, developed them, pasted them onto a postcard, and then found us among the many visitors of the site, was almost unbelievable.
Oh yeah, and today was the day Shurik tryed "Cuy". The local delicacy, also known as Guinea Pig.