In the morning our tour guide arrived five minutes early to our hostel lobby for the start of our day tour to the southern part of the Sacred Valley. Our bags were packed and in storage at our hostel since we leave Cusco tonight on the 10pm PeruHop bus to Puno. I am a bit concerned because there is political unrest in both Bolivia and Chile. The Bolivian election …
We are running low on warm clothes that don’t smell. I was quite happy that our hostel offered a laundry service; drop it off before 7am, get it àback at 6pm. I dropped it off at 6:30am yesterday (Sunday) morning and gave directions to wash in cold and hang dry. Last night we came back and our stinky clothes were still sitting in the same spot. They said it …
Our arrival back to Cusco was a bit of a shock. It was so much colder than the jungle. Our prearranged taxi driver was waiting for us at the airport. Raindrops began to fall as we made our way to the taxi in the airport parking lot. As we started driving through the city the skies let loose. Cusco is built on the side of a mountain and the …