9-21 (Sunday)



I felt 100% better this morning but Barbara was still suffering. We had breakfast at the hotel. The snotty girls were there waiting to leave on their trek.



We were so happy that we weren´t being picked up until 9 a.m. We didn´t have to get up at the crack of dawn after both of us had been sick.



We had hired a private car and driver to take us to the Sacred Valley.



After first stopping at the side of the road at a tourist trap (we didn´t buy anything) we went on to Pisca to the market which is only open on Sunday, Tues, and Thurs. We did drop a couple of coins here. We saw lots of men and women dressed in their native costumes. They were very colorful. We went on to Urubamba, Ollantaytambo and then across the high plains to Chinchero. This was the driver´s home town so his little boy, who had been staying with his grandparents, rode back to Cuzco with us. Barbara was still suffering this morning with altitude.



On our way to dinner we saw another hostel. We decided to go in and check it out. It was about $30 instead of the $50 we´re paying so we decided to move tomorrow in the morning. The Corihuasi where we´re currently staying has wooden floors and you can hear every stop the people above us take. When they take a shower or flush the toilet it sounds like the water is running right down our walls.