so this is the first entry on recounting my entire peru trip which lasted just over a week because the whole point was for of course the 'inka trail' / Macchu picchu. So on to the whole thing!

Arriving in Chile on the 28th of November and with barely a stay in the capital santiago my cousins brrother and myself were sent north... to PERU!. anyway what can i say about the flight... it was ok.. nothing flash. landing in Lima i was suprised at the really... bad amount of security, they dont put your bag through xray machines and when they do check you its random plus the machine didnt really work, the random test was done by pushing a button, if you got a red light your checked and you get a green light your fine, i kind of lol'ed at it but whatever. Ok so then we caught a short flight to Cuzco the ancient capital of the inkas and a colonial capital in its own right, the flight was amazing to say the least the Andes and the rest of the scenery was beautiful. We flew by LAN airways which i gave my thumbs up to for everything

ok so arriving in Cuzco you usually get the tourist hounded thing by taxi drivers.. which about 50 did to us, really uncomfortable anyway we arrived at our hostel about 10 metres from the Plaza de Armas (the main square) now this hostel cost us like 20 dollars australian a night and it was bloody amazing, private bathrooms and 2 to a room, it was an old colonial building remade into a hostel total hotness.!

Ok so the first day in Cuzco after unpacking was spent visiting a tourist agency to do a day trip the next day while we also visited one of the cathedrals. We had to pay a few soles to get in and then we were suddenly abused and kicked out by the priest for 'inappropriate clothing' it was so rude.. the way he went ballistic and we were all like 'wtf!?' we all got really peeved off.. it was an ugly church anyway in the style of the spanish ones where the altar and behind it is really really cluttered.. anyway enough of the cathedral drama we spent the rest of the first day walking around and exploring. a bit of advice to anyone going to cuzco DO NOT respond to the hounders on the street there are so many people there attempting to make a living via selling you random stuff like i mean you walk 10 metres and u get hounded by like 30 people.. so just ignore them which my brother didnt do and we got followed for an hour because this kid was trying to sell postcards. The night was spent visiting a local nightclub which was rather good except also for the fact that out side there were toddlers selling chewing gum at 4 am... which we all thought was rather odd..

ok so the next day like wow this was wonderful, we all payed 20 bux american i think it was to go out of cuzco and visit various inkan sites like Pisaq which i posted a picture of, Ollantaytambo which i will be posting soon and Chinchero a colonial town high in the andes, along with that we went on a mini tour of the markets. so it was just the 8 of us and a guide and a van. I must admit i rather enjoyed this day then the actually day we reached Macchu Picchu for some reason. anywho Pisaq was beautiful despite the cliff drops beside your 1 metre wide path, my cousin made the mistake of wearing thongs aka flip flops?/Jandels? you know? so there were a few fountains there in the 'water temple' which was still flowing from the mountains which i thought was quite interesting but i forget all the details coz it was so long a go..

Ollantaytambo.. was also an interesting place because people still live there at the base of the actual citadel/palaces but this place was PACKED and i mean Packed.. plus i got in trouble for stepping on a building which i thought was just a stone despite that it was ok nothing great.

Chincherro was ok aswell it was very spanish colonial with the 300 year old church but other then that it didnt have very much else

that night was once again spent clubbing

and the day after it was the start of the inka trail !