The Cultural Capital, Cusco, Peru

After our beautiful day at Machu Picchu, we spent two more days in Cusco, enjoying this high altitude city. We spent our days wondering around the city, shopping, and of course eating and drinking (wine and pisco sours)!! Among other activities, Graham and Phil enjoyed an afternoon at the Inca Museo, the ladies enjoyed a traditional weaving museo, and we all took part in a traditional meal with musical, dancing show for our closing Cusco Banquet. At one point in the evening all the ladies were up dancing in the show, with great style, of course. We spent one more night at our Cusco Hostel, Rumi Punku, a lovely, traditional hotel, before heading back to Lima. Altogether we were in the beautiful Sacred Valley for eight wonderful days. And despite some altitude sickness and some tingling, we had a full schedule and saw many amazing sites. We were also extremely lucky to have primarily sunny days, although we are looking forward to hitting the coast and the summer weather, for our second week of adventure!