LLAMA LLAMA CLIF

today we went by taxi to Pisac (30km away from Cuzco).

Each Sunday there´s a fmous market there - with the people from the highlands coming down to sell their produce and exchange it for other goods they cannot produce themselves. There´s also a huge artesania market where we stocked up on nice stuff. E.g. i got some (MORE) jewelerry which is gorgeous here and all hand made from natural stone/plants (beans, roots, coconuts, wood etc)

we spent there quite some time walking around. Of course we took some pickies of funny Peruvian people - ladies wearing their 5 skirts & funny ``backpacks`` which were in fact pieces of colorful fabric in which they would wrap whatever they were carrying on their back

guinea pig:

market:

coca saleswoman:

after the market we got our first collectivo (i.e. shared car) to the ruins in pisac. its a common thing in Peru that people share a taxi - it was funny. haha, i think we will stick to taxis anyway, but it was funny to try

getting up to the ruins involved climbing. and the biggest problem was not the fact that it was steep or goig up (as we have already gotten used to the altitude by now).

haha, it was so cool: it was actually at times very difficult to go up. We had to follow some arrows/paths. They were not always very clear. Ince we ended up on a VERY bad path up where we were basically rolling down with small stones. it was NOT easy to do with a 1.5kg SLR camera with zoomlens o my neck :-S. haha, end evil Chris instead of being supportive was taking pictures of me being stuck half way

and then we got to a funny staircase and a very narrow path. must have been like 0.5m wide, and it ended on one side with a cliff. so you could actuyally look down into the valley - hundreds of meters beow.

view form the top of the stairs:

Chris was laughing that it would b a bad death to go down, since you would first roll through a lot of cactuses before finally getting down

luckily we didnt fall. it was SO COOL to walk. Simon, for your sake, we did all the parts of the ruins .

Peruvian national flower:

oh yes. and we had a very ``funny`` taxi driver on the way back to Cuzco. The road was one long serpentine with very rapid turns all the time. And the crazy guy was going 90km/h at times. We had to hold on to the seats, and a few times it got ``funny`` when there woudl b dogs/cars/holes in the road popping up unexpectedly in front of us. funny ride...

thats all for today . we r tired after all the rock climbing