Cuzco

We´ve made through Machu Picchu so we´re a little backlogged on the blog. We spent three days in Cuzco and yesterday we came to this little town called Aguas Calientes. Machu Picchu is just down the one road in the town. You have to take a train to get here as there are not road, except the one connecting it to Machu Picchu. Cuzco was pretty incredible though. We´re going back in a hour then tomorrow we´re going to Puno, Peru on Lake Titikaka.

Cuzco is pretty crazy though. It use to be the Incan capital before the Spanish took over. A lot of the building still have Incan foundations. Now though, the Incans are relageted to chasing you down the street asking you to buy goods made from Alpaca wool or to come to their restuarant. If you just walked by the say "Okay friend, maybe tomorrow". It´s really pretty sad the poverty. Especially outside the town. We took a bus up to these Incan ruins and walked back into to town. On the walk we saw some houses people were still living in that might as well be ruins as well.

This is a woman and her daughter downtown. They ask you if you want to take a picture. If you ask how much it costs they say its voluntary. After you take the picture though they get really mean and demand at least a sol per person.


This is a little village by some of the ruins.


Here´s the Plaza de Armas at night.


From a distance, here´s the "Red Fortress", one of the ruins outside of Cuzco we saw.


Okay, that´s all for now, folks. We got to go catch the train back to Cuzco.