ummm... where were we...
Yesterday we drove all around the Sacred Valley, visiting various towns and archeological sites, with lots of interesting things to see along the road.
Like these 18 piglets - Nish would have been in heaven!
We stopped at a site in a town called Moray that looked like an amphitheater, however we shortly learned that it was an Incan agricultural experiment to see if circular terracing would produce greater results than the standard familiar stepped terracing. No news yet on the results.
the camera bag is freakin' heavy OY
From Moray we head to Maras to the Salt Works, where water from the Pacific Ocean flows underground for 630 miles to fill man-made pools on the side of a mountain. Here the water evaporates, leaving the salt behind to be harvested.
this isn't what evaporation is all about...
Rainbow flags abound so we asked Ruben, is there a lot of gay pride here in Peru? His response - no, that is the flag of Cusco. hmmm that makes more sense haha
Despite the rain we continued on to an amazing fortress/temple at Ollantaytambo - no photo here, you will have to trust us until we can share the cream of our photographic crop. Even though the Incans worked on this site for over ninety years, it was never completed.
Back at the hotel around 5pm, we attended a Pisco tasting (not recommended) and then Mom got her second surprise of the evening (first being the flowers from Nish from the previous blog...)
big surprise points to Nish
The waiters sung "happy birthday" in both English and Spanish, and the cake was delicious!
Got to sleep around midnight, in great anticipation of our 4:30am wake-up call...
That's all we got for yesterday... now on to the magic of today :)
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