Our final day, leaving the hotel after lunchtime to fly back to Lima and then home, needed some careful travel planning due to it being a BIG festival day! Here are some photos before we left:
I’ve not included photos of celebrations we saw earlier in the trip, in Ollantaytambo, so I will include them here:
I also assembled various videos I recorded of the celebrations, to a single YouTube video:
Today, our last full day of the tour, we visited Inca ruins at Tipon which have a lot of working water courses / irrigation canals, and water “fountains”; very beautiful!
Here’s a couple videos of flowing water, also:
On the way back to our hotel we stopped to get an overview of Cusco:
After lunch we visited the fabulous giant stones at Saqsaywaman which in some ways is more impressive than Machu Picchu due to the enormous size of the stones which even so have been precision cut one to another!
We finished the day with a group dinner …
Today was “A Day In The Life”, it began with a visit to a local Farmers Market, quite different to what we are used to in Winter Garden! So much fresh produce, so many choices – and so inexpensive. I skipped photographing most of the meat but believe me there was a lot of those choices too!
We next traveled a bit further from the city center where we rode “moto taxis” (tuk tuks?), visited a local family and shared their fabulous baked potatoes, and visited a school – and once more we stumbled on a local festival!
M&I / GBMINI 