Today we woke up fairly early, and made our way to the Maximo offices to catch the bus to Pisac. Here I met all the other volunteers, which was quite a relief after having only had crazy Ursula for the past few days; Pri, a girl from Chicago, Erica, from Tasmania, Rob from Melbourne and loads of others. It took about an hour and a half to get there and we stopped at several places along the way to take photos of the Sacred Valley which was just incredible, the photos I took do not do this place justice. We arrived in Pisac at around 10 and had 2 hours to look around the markets which was far larger than it first seemed and extremely deceiving, as Pri and I were suddenly completely lost. We found a sweet little cafe/restaurant which made amazing honey, strawberry and banana smoothies. At 12 we returned to the bus and trundled back over the mountains to Cusco. Once there we had a few hours before we had to be at the old people's home for volunteering. I managed to buy a phone, as neither of mine receive service here, whilst also managing to find a little restaurant which did the most amazing sandwiches (actually we couldn't decide if they really were amazing or it was simply because we were starving). At 3 we made our way to the old people's home where we began plastering, sanding down the walls and then painting, it was extremely hard work especially in the sun but it was good fun, and the old people seemed to really enjoy our company.
Our first stop at Presidencia
Various views of the Sacred Valley- which was just amazing
Some Alpacas
A local indigenous person in national dress with her Alpaca
A few more shots of the Sacred Valley and another place where we stopped off
The market in Pisac
Me with one of the local indigenous girls
Various pictures of the market in Pisac
The river running through the Sacred Valley on the way back to Cusco
The river running through the Sacred Valley on the way back to Cusco