Cusco Cathedral

... Spanish and his mother was a direct Incan decendant.  He lived through the 1950 earthquake and helped rebuild the cathedral damage.  He was born in Cusco and has never left. Although pretty small, he looked tough as nails.  This has to be ...

... that I visited in Mexico.  I took a bunch of photos right at sunset so the lighting is perfect on cathedral façade. Absolutely beautiful. For dinner, I walked up the staircases up to Plaza San Cristobal and tried some local meat !!! ...

...  got out to Machu Picchu and I expect some may have missed it altogether if they had no flexibility. Today we visited another cathedral, built on top of Inca ruins, then hit McDonalds again - I had the local version "The McNifico" (pictured) - ...

... on, so you can wander up, and it is a very pretty city to look down over. Walk north of the main cathedral, eventually succumbing to one of the street postcard sellers, and then back down past various churches and monuments in this pretty city. ...

... . Made sure we got EVERYTHING written down for the whole trip which was referred to more than once later! Then into the cathedral which was very gold and free before 10am! (not the gold sadly) Then had a lovely breakfast on a balcony overlooking the ...

Today was pretty relaxing. It's a Sunday so not much was open. But churches were! We went to the Cathedral and had a look around. Very ornate, lots of silver and gold, a little much. But pretty. We walked around the town a little and took some ...

... . So back to Cusco, city tour a freebe for booking our tour to Puno next stop. More Inca sights and the splendid Cathedral with great oils of famous religious scenes done in european style with the odd larma thrown in. Then the cultral show. Why oh why ...

... - the "Cusco Ticket" I had bought which gave you access to various sites, didnt cover the places we were going - the cathedral, the monastry, and as we are leaving tonight, no mas dinero - no more money, we stayed outside (Ive seen enough Cathedrals) - ...

... in the San Blas Plaza and then walked back downhill to the Archibishops house which now houses lots of religious art. The Cathedral in the plaza was probably the most beautiful Cathedral we have ever seen. Connected to two other churches either side, ...

... fresh and the cheese was indeed very yummy and very creamy! CUENCA Cuenca is a beautiful city famous for its amazing cathedral (very large and gorgeous with its colourful stained glass work, all set off by what seemed like a thousand candles around ...

... , they preserved the basic structure but built Baroque churches and palaces over the ruins/foundations of the Inca city. Cusco Cathedral The Incas' engineering medium was stone and many excellent examples can still be seen today. They didn't need ...

... ? Well Cusco is a very pleasant city. Its main square surrounded by Colonial style buildings, as well as an impressive looking cathedral and another, baroque-facaded church, has a large fountain in the middle. Surrounded by mountains, it is also in the ...

... a couple of markets. One giant one had clothes,local crafts, fruit smoothies, food etc... We sat outside the cathedral and somehow everyone knew we were tourists. We were offered paintings, cigarettes, finger puppters, massages, batteries, memory sticks, ...

... draws thousands of tourists to see the nearby Macchu Piuchu ruins, lying in a remote valley 3 hours from Cusco. We did the usual tour of the cathedral, pretty floral plazas, museums and various smaller churches, as well as a full day trip to the nearby ...

... we first celebrated by sleeping in.  After lunch in the San Blas area, we got cultural and toured a Spanish cathedral built on top of an Incan temple that was destroyed by the Spanish.  It was fairly impressive...almost ...

... after suffering 226 earthquakes in 14 months. Similarly the earthquakes stopped in 1950 & 1986 after he was brought out the cathedral & paraded. An interesting mix of Cathloic & Inca religion, very much alive today. Let us hope it keeps protecting the ...

... to the bank and running back to the alpaca company to pay for my first shipment, Lisa and I caught a night bus to Cusco. These buses are fairly comfortable, with reclining seats and foot rests and there is a (smelly) loo on board, but as ...

... breakfast at the hotel. With a whole day, and a short list of to-do´s, I decide to take in Sunday mass at the Cathedral, which is huge and beautifully constructed by the Spanish.  I confess I dont know a lick of Spanish, but I remember enough Sunday ...

... in the plaza de armas. its amazing, absolutely crammed with inca gold and silver that the spanish knicked and used in their cathedral (which i might add they built over an inca temple, bastards) The locals got one back though, the spanish hired them to ...

... the Sun, which was an Incan temple which the Spanish invaders destroyed and turned into a church, and then the huge cathedral with stunning art work. I especially liked the painting of the Last Supper with guinea pig being served and various other South ...