We jumped on a tourist bus to get from Puno to Cusco cos we heard there was some cool stuff to see along the way. There was a couple of great museums, a lady with a Llama......and the amazing temple of Wiracocha at Raqchi. This was cool - my first really big Inca ruins and the first example of the really fine stone work.
We arrived in Cusco later that day and tried to settle in. However our accommodation wasn´t that great and we spent the next day trying to sort out some more - once Neil and Sar arrived later that day we moved into much more comfortable digs and finally started getting to know this beautiful city. The main Plaza is mind blowingly awesome, with its huge cathedrals built atop the original Inca temples - I kept imagining how amazing these pre-colonial structures must have been...
A few days into Cusco we took a one day trip through the Sacred Valley of the Inca, which was also mad, featuring more amazing Inca ruins. We also stumbled into the Festival Del Carmine in Pisac, which was also way cool, with basically everyoine in the town dressing up and dancing and singing and playing music and parading through the main sqaure.
Ollantaytambo was my favouraite destination in the valley - it was an Incan fort and observatory, and had these freakin huge stones that they had put into place perfectly... ugh.. was wayyyy awesome.
We also took in and few museums in Cusco, and the food was really good, especially Granja Heidi, which had the best crepes. We managed to have a pretty relaxing time and got very well prepared for our next adventure, the 4 day trek through the Andes along the Inca trail to Machu Picchu.
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