Day 3 - Cusco - City Tour
Typical Peruvian Breakfast...little scrambled eggs...fruit salad...buns...orange juice...and of course the almighty coca tea. :-P
[Picture from Margaret] The following were taken by Margaret when she went out to the market in San Blas...I ended up going there later to get my coca leaves but didn't take pictures of the place.
[Picture from Margaret] Peruvian Vegetables
[Picture from Margaret] The stall where I got my coca leaves. A really large bag for 1 soles. Roughly 31 cents.
The Plaza de Armas...center of Cusco
La Compania, a Jesuit church
La Catedral, the famous Catholic church
Fountain in the middle of the square
[Picture from Margaret] I could probably create another site just with Margaret's many numerous poses.
Pachamama Restaurant
Soup with potatoes "Menestron Sopa"
This appetizer was really cool...best the entire trip. It's got tuna inside and the topping is kinda like pudding made out of mashed potatoes. Very tasty "Causa Limena". Recipe from Epicurious
Margaret's Frejol con Bisteck (Beans with Beef Steak)
My Asado
Yes the oven is naked...oh yeah, they had this drink that tasted a lot like Cranberry juice but probably wasn't. [From the comments, Margaret says that it's Chica Morada, a drink made out of black corn]
Many street vendors selling pop and candy.
Convent de Santo Domingo...built on Incan ruins.
Huge paintings on the side
Look at that stonework! Amazing
Flowers around the courtyard
I love the style of the courtyard
Interlocking pieces of stone...kinda like Legos
They even did curves
[Picture from Margaret] You can't really see but that's my head poking through on the right. Basically all 3 windows of the 3 walls are perfectly aligned with each other.
Incan hallway
Margaret seemed to like taking pictures of flowers as much as I did
Another view of the courtyard
Incan doorways are cool...another theme of Peru
Museo Arqueológico de Qoricancha
...umm...I blame it all on high altitude sickness
[Picture from Margaret] Just to show that I wasn't the only weird one
Incan Fountain on the grounds of Santo Domingo...above the Museum.
Skull Trepanation - "The operation was performed with anesthesia for the patient. They think that coca and others could serve like sedatives. After they cut the scalp with a gold or silver knife until they got to the bone. Generally, once finished with the operation, they enveloped the area with a sheet of gold and bandages." Gold knives?!!! Gold isn't the toughest material...
Skull Deformation - "They had an almost erect form, flat or slanting form. They made these activities using little pillows with a skeleton of little wooden sticks that placed on forehead and backside of the head of the newly born, until this deformation was irreversible. People with this deformation had social prestige."
Incan mummies in the fetal position. Incans believed that people should go the way they came in...in the fetal position.
Incan padlock
All over the countryside, there are things etched into the mountainside. The thing on the left is the seal of Cusco.
Museo de Arte Popular...
Apparently even Jesus had cuy (guinea pig) at the Last Supper
The university next to La Compania
Balconies next to the Plaza de Armas
180 of Plaza de Armas
[Picture from Margaret] Trying to catch a cab...actually we had very good experiences with the cabs. You can go anywhere in Cusco for 3 soles (just under a dollar). 3.2 soles = $1
No Margaret, that door doesn't open...
The actual entrance to the Cathedral
Cathedral at night
This popular walkway in Cusco has original Incan stonework
Inca Kola...la nacional bebida del peru! Link to Coca Cola's Inca Peru blurb.
Peru Trip 2005
