Hostal Suecia I Cusco

... was filled with herbs and flowers: chiri chiri, coca, chonta, moco moco, lavender flowers, orange and mandarin water as well as coffee flowers. (Don’t ask me what the first ones were). Basically the purpose was a purifying bath that would ensure could health, love and money. Once the woman had finished washing me, I stood up and was asked to dress. No towel??!!! Well, once in Rome…and I dressed although stayed barefooted until I could wash my feet at a pipe outside ...

... have no pictures) The stones on one structure align perfectly during certain days of the year. The ancients certaintly had very advanced knowledge.
We went to dinner at a fancy restaruant and 3 of us had the ´best burger inthe world´´ i beg to differ... it was halloween night and i was surprised to see so many kids dressed up and goign to shop to shop, they sang a song in spanish that said something like ´we want candy..´
i was stressed out over my camera so i spent ...

... yesterday´s footie action but after another hearty breakfast we´re all set.

We reach our lunch stop and again our chef has prepared another slap up meal. We are now in the first civilisation we have seen for a long time and there are other hikers around. After lunch we say good bye to our donkeys and their guides and start to panic for a second that we will now have to carry all the gear. Jimmy comes to our rescue yet again by showing the bus that will now take ...

... showing a random assortment of pre-Incan stone tools, Incan artifacts, a couple of deformed skulls (the elongated ones from the royal Incan families) and a few mummies to round things off.

Following this museum, Kay and Beth were absolutely starving (must have been the mummies...) so scampered off down Avenida del Sol to find something suitable. We stumbled into a little hole in the wall which had ...

... for it....tuna is cantaluope NOT the fish i was thinking of. So I ratted myself out and told her what I was thinking. We giggled about that for 5 or 10 minutes. I love cantaluope - it's my favorite melon. So today, guess what I got...yep... naranja/tuna jugos. And it was yummy.

***Somehow while typing this dippy keyboard decided to move things around. What should be an exclamation point is ...

... found a pig. He was cool. We went in some place that specialized in authentic textiles and the lady there gave us some potatoes to eat. Probably shouldn´t have eaten them, because we felt obligated to buy something and everything she was selling was way over-priced compared to the markets. Oops. Oh well. Got a scarf. ( : Got a cab back to Cusco. Another parade was going on ...