Today was our last day in Cuzco. It started out kind of overcast and rainy… it seems that the rainy season wants to start up here. We were very lucky that the weather has been excellent these past few days. It was time to go and visit the city. We toured the Coricancha and the Cathedral as well as some of the outlying archeological sites like Q’enqo and Sacsayhuaman, an immense fortress in a sector that overlooks the city. The walls make you say, like, “Wow!” We were just bowled over by their perfection and beauty, and they must have been much higher back in the day. We’re bewitched by it all.
It is now the moment to say good-bye to Cuzco, and that makes us very sad since time has just flown by and we almost didn’t have time to see everything we wanted. We’ve been treated as queens and met a ton of super nice and friendly people. Thank you’s go out to Betty, Angie, all the staff at Domiruth and PromPeru, the drivers… and especially Shura, our fabulous guide who was able to communicate to us all the wonders of the Incan culture. We’ve enjoyed so much, and I think we won’t easily forget any of it since it far exceeded everything we could imagine.
Waiting for us in Lima was Bartolome, the same guy who met us the first day we arrived in Peru, with Tang, our driver. We went to a farewell dinner at the restaurant, La Rosa Nautica, perched at the end of a pier jutting out into the Pacific Ocean and serving good seafood… of course our favorite: delicious ceviche. Today, we will sleep a little more since tomorrow we don’t have to get up early. Bad luck, though, since it will be the end of our legend in Peru. What a shame!
