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South America Trip Day 13: Cuszo

Early in the morning we decided to do our own walking tour through Cuszo. First stop plaza de armas. Second san blas market. Got some nice views with the city in the back.

We are at the Indian restaurant Maikhana, where a buffet with several dishes and unlimited water for just 15 soles per person awaited us. Food was average, but nice for a change of the Peruvian cuisine.

After that we strolled at El Marquez de San Francisco with a lot of souvenir shops. Be sure to negotiate for a better price!

After that we went to San Pedro market, fun fact is that it was designed by Eiffel, and it houses not only souvenirs but also a lot of food! Cheap meals, fruits, jelly and pudding, drinks, it had it all! We tried some local berries, jelly mixed with vanilla pudding and will come back for some dinner! Walking around is fun, seeing also bizarre things like the snout of a cow being sold. Outside the market there are a lot of locals selling skinned Guinea Pigs in tons, does not look too charming.

At night we ate at Pio’s Chicken, a local restaurant which from the outside looks like a KFC. We had a lot of food, a 1/4th chicken and 1/8th chicken with rice, fries and coke for just 24,50 soles.

On the way back we booked a trip for tomorrow early in the morning, to the alternative rainbow mountains. Big day tomorrow!

South America Trip Day 12: Machu Picchu

Waking up to the sounds of a wild river, opening the curtains to see a huge mountain in front of you, wish all mornings were like this!

We got up early to get our bus tickets (24 USD both ways) which are valid throughout the whole day. Our entrance at Machu Picchu starts from 10 am, so we quickly packed, got breakfast and went to the bus.

The bus ride was about 30 minutes, with amazing views over the mountain range! We arrived around 9:30 am, but our tickets were valid from 10:00 am onwards for a period of 4 hours. They were quite strict on the minute about letting us in. Exactly at 10:00 am we could go.

South America Trip Day 10: Arequipa to Cuszo with Peru Hop

Another early day, getting picked up from our Hostel in Arequipa around 5:00 am. An hour later our doubledecker bus was ready for our trip to Cuszo, 18:00 pm approximately arrival, long trip.

We had a short stop to get some breakfast at some local shops. Thought we bought chicken empanadas, ended up being cheese. First time I ever saw someone heating up six empanadas in a plastic bag in a microwave.

We stopped after a few hours of driving at lake Comsur for a view. The lake is on 4,000 meters altitude, so you kinda feel that kicking in. Here we had a view over the lake, with mountains in the background. Was not the most amazing view, because afterwards we drove on we saw more impressive sights. We could also buy clothing made by locals. The route continued navigating us next to green hills filled with alpacas, mountains and lakes.

Around 14:20 pm, after more than 4 hours in the heat of the bus, we stopped for a buffet. It was 20 soles per person, did not taste at all. As in, one of the most horrible buffets we ever encountered. After that another 3 hours before we reached Cuszo.

When lunch was done we were suppose to drive three more hours and reach our hostel at 17:30 pm, that became 20:30 pm because of the worst traffic ever.

Got a quick pizza and an Inca Kola and then to bed. Tomorrow, Sacred Valley!

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