After nearly a month, Megan and I are finished school and ready to leave Cusco. We fly out tomorrow morning for Buenas Aires. Megan is researching tango shows and cafés as I write this :)
We actually finished school nearly a week ago, but we had one more thing to do, that no trip to Cusco is really complete without: visit Machu Picchu!
We took a guided tour that technically ended at Machu Picchu, but really seemed like two separate trips: 3 days walking thru the Lares Valley and seeing how the locals lived and camping in villages, and one day in Machu Picchu after a night in the best hotel we're likely to see in South America.
The trek was interesting, and our guide's relationships with the locals really gave us a view into their lives. The fully-supported nature felt a bit odd to us, tho, and we probably won't do another similar trek. Machu Picchu was (of course) spectacular, even after having seen many of the other ruins in the Cusco area.
One thing my pre-trip reading hadn't prepared me for was the incredible number of granite walls in the Machu Picchu/Ollantaytambo area. Unfortunately most are covered in a hanging garden of jungle foliage - if it was a bit drier there I might have to move there!
Lots of pics are up on my picasaweb site.
--Dave, Cusco
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