LLAMA LLAMA PRIVATE DRIVER

In the morning we had a plan to catch a taxi to go to Ollantaytambo, It was pretty far (80km from Cuzco), but we still thought we would manage. We namely didn't feel like taking a public BUS, go together with chickens and other funny creatures, and change on the way.

On the basis of the guidebooks we calculated it should costs something like 40$ to go there by cab.
However, to our surprise: no taxi wanted to take us... They all kept saying it's too far and that we should go to the bus station. The whole time, there was this guy following us, who (we thought) wanted to take us on a tour or something like that. Since he was bothering us, we ignored him and continued looking for a cab. He heard however where we wanted to go.

And just when we lost the hope that we will manage to find any cab, he came again, and said he can take us to Ollantaytambo with his car. It was just a private guy with a private car. The guy (Milton as he told us later) was round (?) 50-60 (it was hard to say for us, since Peruvians tend to look older than they actually are because of the sun). He probably had nothing better to do, and driving was an easy job - for his age.
Finally, we asked him for the price of going to Ollantaytambo, staying there for the sights & going back. It was something like 25$ or so. haha, way less than we had thought!
btw: our friend Milton could only speak Spanish + aVERY few English words - t was so funny to communicate with him

There were some gorgeous views on the way - i.e. the snow-capped mountains.

5 min later we were on our way by his OPEL to the Ollantaytambo ruins.

The weather wasn't very nice (there was no sun whatsoever - everything looked grey). The ruins were high on a mountain. A lot of climbing was involved… and it was NOT easy at 4000m above sea level - despite the fact we have already gotten used to it a BIT. but we heard it actually tajkes 1.5 years until your body has adjusted...
haha, we kept on stopping for ''picnics'' every 5 min = lazy us

ruins:

Chris showing how he brought there all the rocks on his back (by the way: the parts sticking out of the rocks: are still unfinished, they are the remains of the ''handles'' that the Inkas used to move the huge rocks around):

Peruvian national flower:

After the sighs & lunch we went back to Cuzco with our fiend Milton . It's VERY handy to have a private driver! And this one was almost as cheap as the one we had in Delhi in India

When we arrived safely back in Cuzco, we asked Milton to pick us up from the hotel also the FOLLOWING day - as we wanted to go to Moray & Salineras - and there were no other (easy) ways of getting there other than by car .