Monday in Cuzco

Wake up call at 7:30, breakfast, and getting ready for the day. Patricia, our local guide for yesterday and today, met us and we started out for Saqsayhuaman. We will go up to the cedar line (tree line), visit the Sacred Valley, have lunch at Pisac and visit the Ollantaytambo temple.
We stopped for a view of the city of Cuzco from above and the received a lesson in silver jewelry making and the difference between the lama, alpaca, as well as the wild guanaco and vacuna. I think there were a few gift purchased here for home. We then drove above the tree line, 12500 feet on our way to Pisac.

Some more shopping in the market in Pisac. More of the same trinkets. Buffet in Pisac featured some more local food such as lupin and quinoa a well as alpaca meat. We saw plantations of both in addition to the huge-kerneled corn on our drive.

A longer drive to Ollantaytambo where I am sure there were a few naps taken on the bus. We toured a typical 4 dwelling house of the Ollyantaytambo people. Then we visited the Ollyantaytambo stronghold. Just about everyone rested their high altitude lungs and leg muscles on the 700 steps up the terraces.