Friday, 5/17/13
Morning!! We arrived
in Cusco at 5:30 a.m. groggy and yet ready for adventure.
We had a list of
hostals we were going to visit. Needless to say the were the cheapest ones in
Peru…we thought. As we searched for a taxi at the bus stop, a lady offered us a
hostal for $10 per person. Pretty cheap. That was about the cheapest we saw
online. All of a sudden, a man jumped in front of her and said $7.50. Deal!! It
had wifi and hot showers. We did not care if we had to sleep on the floor. We
expected a dungeon but decided to go with it anyways. We were pleasantly
surprised.
The hostal was a
hole in the wall. But opened up into a nice courtyard. The rooms were great and
it seemed super safe. We jumped in bed and snoozed for a bit.
We then woke up and
booked a Macchu Picchu tour. We did not plan on it. We were planning on finding
our own way to the ruins to safe lots of money. Turns out, with this service,
we would save money and a whole lot of hassle.
So far, my
hands-down favorite part of Cusco is the food. Delicious!! There are
restaurants everywhere. Most of them look fancy but have great prices. Chad and
I ate at a high-class bistro with a quirky, strange, yet intelligent waiter who
offended Chad when we asked for wifi. The waiter’s response was: “But you have
such great company in this young man…why do you need wifi?” He was quite rude,
but eventually brought the password for Chad 15 minutes later. The food was
scrum-diddly-umptious but was not filling enough.
We walked around, shopped,
and before I knew it, I was again starving. Boom! We found the gold-mine!! A
sandwich joint with 21 sauces to choose from. They had garlic sauce, olive
sauce, pineapple sauce, spicy sauce, and some other weird stuff. We tried most
of them. Turns out, this place is ranked #15 out of 262 restaurants in Cusco. I
agree.
Then, dormimos (we
slept).
**Keep
adventurizing!...I know I will!**
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