Saturday was a great sleep in day, with nothing much to do early in the morning. Dave made it in to our hostel at around 4am, and Mom & Dad made it to theirs about the same time. We were going to the Cusco area tour in the early afternoon. We went down to Mom & Dad’s hostel and met them and went to Norton Pub, which had some great atmosphere with flags on the ceiling and interesting pictures on the wall. We went to try and check in with Peru Treks (our tour company for the Machu Picchu hike) but they closed early for lunch. So we walked back to our hostel for the tour. Unfortunately it was a lot of walking as we had to walk right back down to the square for where our tour picked us up. We left 45 minutes late, then were stuck in traffic for 15 minutes to go 3 blocks to our first stop. Needless to say we weren’t all that impressed. We started at Qurikancha which was the sanctuary of the Sun God later converted to the Convent of Santo Domingo. It was kind of interesting, but not quite what we were looking for. The next stop was going to Saqsaywaman which is when the rain really started. It was amazing to see the size, scope, and scale of some of the rocks that were there.
However, we are just readying to leave for the 4 day hike to Machu Picchu, so the rest of Cusco and the hike there will have to wait until Thursday night.
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