danielle + cusco = unhappiness

As soon as I woke up this morning I was feeling like crap.  That horrible feeling you get when you feel empty and shaky but not hungry... hot and cold... weak like a baby kitten... yeah, you know that feeling.  Not sure what is up - hoping it just has to do with the altitude and will be gone by tomorrow!  Needless to say I was less than on my game today, and napped in the van through more than one site.

However, Mom was the energizer bunny and greatly enjoyed the city tour of Cusco.  First stop was the Convento de Santo Domingo, where monks still reside today.  Next onto Sacsayhuaman, the largest completed Incan temple in Peru.

Mom at the zigzag walls - there are three parallel zigzag walls at this site.  There may be three because three is a sacred number to the Incans, but not sure why they are zigzag. This may symbolize one of the three sacred animals, the snake (the other two being the puma and the condor)

After this we went to Tambomachay, at 12,620ft, which is the Temple of the Water.  Relatively unimpressive, I think I took one photograph.

This is the point I called it quits.  Mom continued on to look at Kenko (the Temple of Mother Earth) while I napped in the van.

Later on she and I walked to the Plaza de Armas and saw La Basilica Catedral, which was large and very over-done.  Ate a late lunch in a cute organic restaurant called Greens that would fit in perfectly in San Francisco!  After some shopping headed back to the hotel, where we hung out in the bar for a bit before calling it a night.

Mom and her Chivas, me and my coca tea

9pm now and I still feel "off", hopefully tomorrow I will wake refreshed and ready to hit the Amazon at full force.

nite to all