We caught the train early this morning from Aguascalientes to Ollantaytambo where we caught a local bus to Cuzco. It is a really beautiful train trip through the Andes at a very high altitude – we saw lots of snow. It was really neat seeing small villages of remote Peru.
We arrived in Cuzco early enough to catch a good meal and find a nice place to stay (where I am using their computer at the moment). I have learned to negotiate the price of everything and we´re paying about half the normal rate where we are presently staying. We bought a lot of nice things from the market today, including the sweet Alpaca sweater I am presently wearing along with a sweet new hat for my collection.
As we are getting a bit tired of Peruvian food (it all tastes the same to me and it isnt spicey!), we went out for fire cooked pizza. It was really good. After that we went to a second floor pub overlooking the main square. It was especially nice because of the wood burning fire (its really cold here!).
It was neat to finally get an update this evening from Matt and Dana in Dublin. It appears all is going well with them now and apparently they were waiting in the welfare line today…? Not sure what that´s all about, but we´re assuming they´re on welfare or something like this…
