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| Hopefully all the beers in Peru are this size! |
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Found Annaliza's arch - in a bus
station in a different country... |
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| On the road to Puno |
A day coach to Puno gave more good views of the lake, plus
another border crossing, but little else. Didn’t even venture out of the hostel
in Puno – it was our first experience of rain since we’d arrived on the
continent so four hours watching rubbish cooking/home improvement shows on Fox
Life was deemed the better option (the rain didn’t stop, otherwise we’d like to
think we would have wondered around the town!).
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Another street excavation on
our doorstep - bonus! |
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| Inca Cola - Mmmm! |
After umming and ahhing about our best route through Peru,
we ended up heading straight to Cusco – the Incan jewel. Casa Carlos was our
first Air bnb venture this trip, and despite some dodgy electronics it was
great to be so close to the Plaza de Armas (main square).
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| Cusco from above |
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| Knees together, arms out wide... |
The amount of tour operators in the city even topped San
Pedro de Atacama, but fortunately we already knew who we wanted to do our ‘Inca
Trail’ (Salkantay) trek with – our bartering exploits proved fruitless though
despite booking the day before. It did however give us two more opportunities
to get a run down on what the trek entailed – at this rate we potentially wouldn’t
even need to do it! After rambling through the city streets to get to the
second most famous set of ruins in the area,
Sacsayhuamán
(read “sexy woman”- much more memorable!), we found that it was daylight
robbery to enter. This is where Annaliza’s knowledge was right on the money,
and a half an hour detour to nearby Cristo Blanco almost gave us full views of
the Incan ruins – cashback! Unfortunately, the descent from here resulted in
the scariest of our travel experiences to date, with a dog bounding up to us
and biting Annaliza on the leg. Not what you need, by any stretch of the
imagination, but after stumbling through a trip to a doctor they deemed her
safe and not requiring a further injection just a course of antibiotics (thankfully
we’d both got rabies boosters prior to travelling!!!).
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| Sexy woman... |
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| Cusco from above #2 |
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| Cusco's Plaz de Armas |
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| Trying to smile post dog bite... |
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| Not sure what's for sale in here... |
Key Learnings:
1. Inca Kola tastes nothing like Coca Cola – more
like Vimto in fact. Sounds cool though.
2. Beware of random dogs at all times – throwing
rocks at them is a much better deterrent than acting passively and hoping they
piss off
hope youre ok AL, sadly it is a dog eat dog world
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