Cusco and Ollantaytambo - The Perez Family in Peru, Part V
Here’s the fifth installation in The Perez Family in Peru series, written by the very talented, Michael J. Perez, as travel through Cusco and Ollantaytambo, slowly making our way to our final destination, el Gran Show if you will, Machu Picchu. Enjoy! After our 10-hour luxury train ride from Puno, we arrived in Cusco, took a cab and checked into Los Niños Hotel. This was a really cute place with nice rooms and a courtyard that we could hang out in, read, have coffee, breakfast, etc. Unfortunately, this was my second go-around with an “internal excursion” and I didn’t get much sleep that night but, luckily, I didn’t wake Chris up. Check out the hipsters (aka Jamie and Marlee) enjoying beverages and reading in the courtyard On our first full day we walked around quite a bit of the town on a long hike checking out some sites, including churches, buildings, plazas and a few markets along the way. We also found another...