The Vagrant Gypsy Life

Day 191 Wed 9/3 Cusco/ Pisaq

Photos of Pisaq

The driver smehow managed to get us to Cusco an hour earlier. The 6 of us hopped into two taxis and headed to town, where we spent the next hour walking around town, knocking on doors to find a hostel. After securing a hostel, it was time for breakfast. It was great to walk around at a time where the town and main square were scarcely populated and the scenery breathtaking! There is a reason people flock to Cusco, and Machu Pichhu is not the only reason as I had thought.

A shower and a quick glance at my emails. I had received an email from the Catalan girls whom I had met in Colca canyon in Arequipa. They were also in town. I walked over to the hostel to find them at the breakfast table, making plans for the day. I would spend the next 5.5 days with them and had a lot of fun. As a solo traveller, it is always great to meet a bunch of nice, friendly folk with whom it is easy to travel. We felt like old friends after a couple of days together!

We bought ourselves a tourist boleto, which costs 130 soles and grants entry to a lot of sites in Cusco and around town. Off to Pisaq in a collectivo. We arrive at the square, where an artesanal fair swallows the girls. An hour later, I walk around trying to find them. It took another hour before we managed to find each other and then it was off to the Incan ruins. Taxi up and hike down, since the site was about 1.5 hours away. The carnaval had arrived and there was much festivity, music and traditional dance at the ruins. We had our lunch, enjoying the dance and music. After spending some time exploring the ruins and posing for some photos, we hiked back to Pisaq and headed back to Cusco.

Met up then with a French couple, Aude and Aurel, whom the girls knew, as we started our preparations for our trip to Machu Pichhu the next day. Shopping, splitting up of food and water, dinner, and then it is off to bed! The 6 of us would have to make an early start to catch the collective, if we are to make it to Aguascalientes before sunset.

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