Cusco

So after the 10 hour train journey from Puno to Cusco, we arrived in Cusco late Saturday evening and made our way to our accommodation in the San Blas area of Cusco - very lovely place and the accommodation was good too as there were only the three of there and the cat Socks. So was nice and quiet. 

Socks

We were in Cusco itself only for two days, Sunday and Monday and we spent these days doing touristy things. I really wanted to visit the Inka Museum so we went out on Sunday to try and find it only to find that all museums in Cusco were closed on Sundays. Well the big ones anyway, because Mum and I visited the Coca Museum on Sunday afternoon when we came by it by accident. It was an interesting museum giving the history of Coca which as you may know is a export of Peru. 

And in case you did not know here is a fact for you re coca - it helps with altitude so if you are ever at altitude, drink some coca tea and eat some coca sweets, it does help a lot. 

As the Inka museum was not open on the Sunday we then walked around the main part of Cusco looking at the plazas, the architecture, taking pictures and wandering around artisan markets. Cusco is more expensive compared to Arequipa, think its because it is the most touristy place in Peru.

Mum even got her photo taken with a baby Llama.

As well as us being in Cusco, my fellow Arequipean Strider Linda was also there too (well an hour outside Cusco) but we met up with her on the Monday and finally managed to get to the Inka museum, which was very interesting. Afterwards we went on a bus tour around Cusco and saw Sacsayhuaman (Inka ruins) and also Cristo Blanco (a statue of Jesus Christ... which is based on the famous one in Rio de Janerio but much smaller). The bad thing about this bus tour is that it rained and we got wet..... ah well.

Sacsayhuaman

Cristo Blanco

After the bus tour we met up with Chloe Stephen was had been visiting other Latin Link missionaries in Arequipa and was in Cusco this week too. We had lunch with her which was very nice. Think she was following us as we saw her in Puno as well!

In the evening Chloe and I visited a museum all about chocolate which was very interesting. There was no free chocolate tasting which was a bit sad but we did get to taste some chocolate flavoured tea which actually tasted quite nice.

For more photos on our time in Cusco please click here and here