From Puno
we took a night bus (Transzela) to Cusco. It arrived around 5am to Cusco and we
took ourselves directly to our hostel hoping to get maybe more sleep or at
least leave our luggage there. We had booked one night at Hostal el Labrador. Unfortunately,
the front of the hotel was under road construction and it was a bit challenging
to get to the hostel with all the luggage. But we managed to come in and the
hostel was kind enough to let us in a spare room to get more sleep until our
own room would be ready. Much appreciated! But the room was a bit small and the
shower was not very good – mainly cold water. The breakfast was not very
inspiring either. Well, it was the same that almost every hostel has – same white
bread, butter, jam and tea. We searched for other options and found one hotel
for a good price on Hotels.com. We booked 7 nights at Waynapicchu hotel. It was not as
close to the centrum, but not too far away either. The room was nice, staff
helpful (got us a heater for example when we said that our room was very cold),
and there were different fruits at breakfast too. 😊
Well,
enough about the accommodation, let’s see what we did during our time in Cusco 😃 First of all, it is nice to just walk around. There are lot of handicraft
shops and different markets all over and it is just nice to see all the
colorful textiles and interesting food markets. We learned later on from some
Dutch tourists that many of the handicraft products are actually made in China
and not at all the material the sellers claim them to be 😩 Once we saw some
real alpaca products and the price difference, we understood that most of the
products that are sold as “alpaca” are actually just something synthetic. That’s
a pity. But we did find some cotton products and other things that we believe
are “real” materials 😃
Beautiful colors in different fabric shops
