We arrived in Cusco to a nice but cloud covered day. Our youth hostel here is very nice but only has shared internet which makesit a little bit hard for Laurel to work. Posting to the travel blog understandably takes a back seat. We have a room on thesecond floor with a very nice view of the city outside our window.
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We went to visit the main square in town. Plaza De Armas. It was quite pretty but was overrunwith tour busses, tourists and people trying to hawk anything to the tourist crowd. WhileI enjoyed seeing another area of Peru I was beginning to think that Cusco was not mykind of place if heavy tourism was all it had on offer.
We tried to find a less touristic place for dinner without luck. A restaraunt called PapaPlata which was near our hostel in an area filled with hostels. Despite a promising menu including Cuy (which had to be ordered 24 hours in advance), the food a mediocre. The best we had was an appitizerplate of tubbers and a pork dish covered in beef gravey which tasted like it was mixed up from a packet. The cost of dinner was around $80USD which was high for Peru and veryhigh for what we got. So far I am not liking Cusco although the rest of the family seems tobe more open at this point.
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