We arrived in Cusco at about 5.30am, the former capital of the Inca Empire was very pretty even through bleary eyes, but very cold. It didn`t get any warmer, we spent most of our time in Cusco wearing literally all of our clothes to keep warm, even in the hostal room!
Cusco offers tourists everything they want from pìzza to handicrafts. Peru in general is very much geared up for the tourist, you can´t visit any site without seeing coach loads of French, German, Chinese, American and English being guided round. And the sites aren´t cheap. Just a couple of months before we arrived all the site entrance fees doubled which was a pain, so we paid 70 soles (14 pounds) for ticket to take us to 4 inca sites around Cusco and later found out that Machu Picchu was 122 soles (23 pounds), steep prices when we were used to paying a couple of $ for entraces in other countries, but it was all worth it...!
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