First day in Cusco

We woke up at 5 am today, packed all our stuff, and were at the airport at 6:00 am. Our flight was scheduled to depart at 6:30, but didn't actually depart until about 7:00. We arrived in Lima at about 8:00 and were going through security at about 8:45 when we realized that our next flight was scheduled to depart at 8:30. We hustled through security (as fast as you can hustle through airport security) and ran to the gate. Turns out that the time on the ticket (8:30) is when the plane arrives at the gate, not when it starts boarding. We had until about 9:35 till the plane started boarding.

I don't think I mentioned this, but this year is the 100th year anniversary since Machu Picchu was discovered. Because of that, on the plane we didn't get the average pretzel or nut mix snack. We got a small box of candy/snacks. There was a caramel-filled chocolate egg-shaped-like-candy, a thing that was similar to kit kat except bigger and a lot more wafer and a lot less chocolate. And there were also some crackers.

We arrived in Cusco (the flight in is pretty interesting. You fly awfully close to some mountains and the runway seems to be just enough to land the plane) and it was very cold. Instead of being like 99 all day and 80 at night like in Pucallpa, it's about 69 all day and about 35 at night.

Today we explored the town square and many beautiful architectural buildings. (A lot of the streets are one-lane cobblestone streets. Imagine something along the lines of urban-French-roads).

Tomorrow we will be shopping around.

If anyone wants to Skype, I'll probably be online somewhere from (5:00 pm to 8:00 pm pacific time tomorrow). My Skype name is "derekantrican".

*sorry there aren't any photos for today. Maybe I'll add some later. Though I have taken around 400 photos so far this trip with my SLR (most of them today). Those will be added to my photobucket after the trip.