Cusco

Our hotel is in the city of Cusco, and today we walked to the historical centre.

There was a lot lovely churches and open squares with markets and lots of trees. Today was a public holiday called All Saints Day of the Living, so there was lots of local people about and some unusual sights.

This display was a mystery to us, but there was lots of people watching the preparations, but we didn't wait to see what happened to the giant ladies head.

Just round the corner was a market with all of the stalls on one side selling cakes and bread, and every stall on the other side selling roasted pigs heads and lots of other bits of roast pork. Darren was keen to try something but we didn't want to accidentally buy a whole head and then not know what to do with it.

Instead we started walking uphill and passed some great murals and flower filled streets.

Up and up we went to the highest possible point where a Christ the Redeemer statue was located.

He was quite small, but the views were amazing and I think that at last I am getting acclimatised to the altitude.

Slightly late however, as tomorrow morning we get a flight back to Lima which is on the coast.