Touring Around Cuzco and Acclimatizing
Spent the day touring around the city of Cuzco… fighting off the street vendors and finger puppet children. Here are several interactions that I had heard tell about…
Interaction 1 - a conversation between me and a street kid:
kid: Finger puppets? One solas.
me: No, gracias.
kid: Maybe later.
me: No.
kid: Maybe tomorrow.
me: No.
kid: Maybe next week.
me: No.
kid: Maybe next year.
Interaction 2 - a conversation between Camilla and a street kid:
kid: Finger puppets? One solas.
camilla: I don’t have fingers.
kid: But you have toes.
Interaction 3 - a conversation between Hung and a street kid:
kid: Finger puppets? One solas.
hung: If I buy one will you leave me alone?
kid: Sure sure.
hung: Here is one solas.
kid: You gave me a fake sol.
hung: Well a fake one is better than nothing.
kid: Cheeky monkey.
In Cuzco, I really enjoyed touring the church that was build ontop of the Incan walls. It was very cool to see examples of the stone work, like a hyper-charged game of tetris. It took me 2 days to acclimatize to the altitude, suffering with a thick headache, drinking coca leaf tea to cope.