Getting to Cusco and the place so far..

The flight to Cusco was a joke, I was convinced that we were going to die!

The plane was nice, like a proper jet and everything, but there wasn't many people on it, which is always a little worrying, the flight however was horrific! loads of turbulence, and then, when you start flying over the Andes, and you realise that they're going to land the thing in the mountains, it all gets a little bit silly, to me it looked like we were flying directly into the mountain then next thing you know it banks like crazy and we some how manage to land, Lou was pretty cool though out, my palms were sweating! I shook the captains hand on the way out to thank him for keeping me alive.

The first day was fine, we both seem to have dodged altitude sickness, which is good news. The weather here is difficult to suss as one minute its raining, the next minute its boiling hot sunshine, the next its really cold, as I write this I am sitting here glowing like a lobster with a light bulb up its bum. Lou's burnt her arms but her face has got away with it, my face is really red, look like a right muppet.

We took it easy on the first night so today we've had a really full day (Monday). We've been to the indoor market, which was a real eye opener. There were all sorts of animals heads and feet scattered around on counters, but also lots of lovely cheese and bread and fruit and stuff. We had a laugh trying to film all the rotting donkey snouts without the sellers catching us. I went off the rails slightly by sitting down with the locals to have some chicken / salmonella soup with noodles, to be honest it was nice. Lou and I have been advised by freddy our land lord that there is a drink called chicha which is worth a go, unfortunately the woman selling it in the market looked like she had been dug up, Lou was very quick to spur me on to having a glass of this red delicacy so I did, I took one sip from the grotty glass and ditched it, to be honest I'm not even sure I will survive from that amount. Lou took a video of the moment laughing her head off.

Following the market we have taken a tour of all different Inca sights which has been really good, we've also planned out the next parts of our stay in Peru, I will tell you more another time, for now we need to go out and get some dinner.

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