We showered and made our way to breakfast. We were on a mission. With another couple from the tour we had split a loaf of bread and our mission was to butter the bread. Butter curls were 2 to a plate. We had 5 plates stacked. Then the hotel breakfast employee comes out, sees all the butter missing and questions Annette who claims that we really like butter. As it was, the bread was dry and the butter hard.
The drive was long but Annette did manage to find markets on a 5 minute stop. She bartered while the rest of us waited in the bus. This was at around 4000 metres so when we got started again and ate our chip butties I believe it was a world record for consumption of such food at the highest altitude.
The scenery was spectacular. I just wish that the sun wasnt on my side of the bus the whole way.
Finally we made Cusco, had a short break and did a quick walk around the city. This is the time of year for festivals and every 5 minutes fireworks would go off.
We made our way to the restaurant and had nachos. I had an alpaka burger as a main meal.
It was here that we met our guide for the walk and got an orietation. Seems like we cant take many clothes on the walk as the sleeping bag and extra mattress take up more than half the weight.
Back at the hotel with our duffle bags for the trip we tried to figure out what to take as the weight situation had stuffed everything. We used scales to weigh our stuff and we were way over. The scales also said my sleeping bag of 1.75 kg was 3 kg. mmmm. We then discovered they had other scales that were a bit more accurate it seemed but we just dont know.
I then attempted to have a shower. No hot water or course. It could wait until tomorrow.
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