Sacred Valley

So we rested for a day after our night of festivities and met up with our great friend Nacky from Puerto Rico. We partnered up with a girl from New Zealand named Gemma. Had dinner at a thai restaurant and made plans for the sacred valley seeing more ruins. We paid a taxi guy about 10 dollars a person to drive us to Chinchero where we saw this palace that was Incan now turned into a church on top. (According to the Incas Chinchero was the birthplace of the rainbow. The rainbow is revered in their culture and the Incan flag is a rainbow flag that flies beside the red and white Peruvian one. ) The views there were amazing. Next we went to an Incan terracing system called Moray where they practiced perfecting seeds and growing certain plants. Great circular agricultural terracing. 6 hours later we made it to Ollyantaytambo to the Incan fortress. We ate dinner that took us 3 hours to get served some very sweet sugary fish. It was ok. Then we went to our hostal to sleep. Cassie and I slept in our tent for a dollar and Nacky and Gemma stayed in dorm room. We awoke went to breakfast and toured the the ruins for about 2.5 hours. Taking pictures with the Peruvian Special Operations Unit - Military men in training. It was fun. The ruins were huge. The views amazing. The Incas always build high up to see the surrounding valley for protection. Then we took another cab to Pisaq. Ate lunch at an amazing restuarant and had cheesecake really good cheesecake. Then hiked up and up about 3 miles to the top of the Incan citidel. This area was spread out with watch towers, terraces, burial grounds, ceremonial places, housing, they built a hole throught the mountain to walk through. Then we walked back to town about 3.5 hours. Ate a little food at the same restaurant. Returned back to Cuzco, drank beer with locals in the back of the bus it was fun. Then we arrived back and went to sleep. The next day I helped Nacky buy an airline ticket and yes WE WATCHED AMERICAN FOOTBALL NFL for the first time. NFL SUNDAY TICKET AT NICKS SPORTS BAR IN CUSCO. Great day. Today we bought tickets to Lima and are heading to Huaraz. TOUCHING THE VOID anyone seen that movie? That is the area we are going to do some amazing trekking and hiking with our fabulous friend Nacky. That will be our next update. Peace out C-YA as we move northward. We are not staying in Lima long. Just another big city. Love you all enjoy the blogging. Tito and Cassie

p.s. we also went to a cultural dance show tonight, I am going to try to upload a video it was beautiful!