Cusco Arrival

early start, up at 4AM, yeesh, this hits you later in the day 10 fold let me tell ya when ur 10,000 feet ASL. down for breakfast but our cook had disappeared on us and we were left with simple fruit for breaky, not happy.

well that was all for Lima, we caught the bus into the airport and boarded a LAN airlines 320 to Cusco, its only then do you begin to see the other tourist groups and guides all doing the same thing. some nice eye candy around, we just got stuck with the old folk on the tour, bring on california! so we jet off and wammo you blast through the low cloud level and straight up into the Andes mountain range. awesome to see via the air.

we settled into the hotel and immediately the altitude hits you. heart beats fast, reason being the air is thinner, less oxygen. we immediately thought lets hit LAN airlines and try and get a sooner flight out from LIMA to LA, as it was we were looking at a 12 stay in the airport. we managed to change to leaving a day ahead, so more shoppin time in the states. next we took a general walk round the city centre square and the hotel area. clean and tourist oriented, unlike the dirty poor areas round the outskirts and the airport. Cusco is a microcosm of Lima.