When traveling in Peru, you have to make sure your US dollars are immaculate. I mean perfect perfect. Depending on the person working the exchange, they won't accept bills that got a small little rip. In my case, they wouldn't take my $100 that had a small little hole in them. So I exchanged our money and came back to the hotel and was told that our tour was waiting for us at the Plaza de Santo Domingo. I got AL going and we made our way to the the plaza, but there was no bus. We waited around with AL going back and forth to the hostel to call our agency lady inquiring about the bus. I went around to each bus with my receipt asking if they were the ones. We kept being told that the bus was there, or was going to be there, but nothing. We waited for over and hour and I was getting pissed off. Finally, s
ome local police decided to help us. I like the Peruvian female officer uniforms with their mini skirts and knee high leather fuck me boots. The two officers ended up taking us to the iperu on Avenida del Sol and from there those people contacted the tour . Once the iperu steps in then you get service. Our travel agency lady showed up there with one of the ladies that works the buses that do the tour. Apparently, we were told the wrong place to wait for them. If we wanted to meet up with our tour, we had to take a taxi to where they were. It would cost us 40 NS or $14 to do that. Well, I still wanted to do the tour and we had no other plans for that day, so we took it. Our taxi driver was this cool Quechua guy named Eduardo and he talked to us in Spanish while he drove us. He explained some of the Incan philosophy and showed us the difference between a llama and an alpace. Also, he told us the difference between an alpaca suri and alpaca huaynaca. The latter produces the best wool and is on the Peruvian money and flag. We finally met up with our bus and luckily they hadn't even done anything yet. From there we went to Pisaq to visit an Incan Ruin. Incan walls are amazing. They have huge stones and the rocks are held together without mortar. 
Note the smooth curves and the rock that is made to be a corner of two walls coming together. High up in Pisaq, I was also surprised to find this amazing aqueduct that the Incans used for water and for their purification rituals. Pisaq also had this beautiful terracing built on the sides of mountains that last to this day. Much like the Mayans, it is a marvel how they move these huge rocks to the middle of nowhere. However, I think the Incans are crazier cause they did it in high altitude on top of mountains. All I can think whenever I see such amazing structures is that someone had to be exploited to make those things. Cause my lazy ass would not be having it. I 
would be thinking you want me to move what??? Because you say you are the incarnation of God??? Yeah... I don't think that I could have been an Incan. After Pisaq, we went to Ollantaytambo which was really impressive. The Incans planned their cities based on their sacred animals. For example, Machu Picchu is based on the condor design. Ollantaytambo is built on the design of 2 llamas, a baby llama and a mother llama. It was an incredibly beautiful structure. The picture to the lower right is of Ollantaytambo. The picture below it is of a fountain at Ollantaytambo. If there is one symbol that represents the Incans then this picture of the fountain is an example of that symbolism. Notice the 3 step pattern along the outside and inside of fountain. This is called the Chakana and represents the 3 sacred planes of heaven, earth, and the underworld. Each of these sacred planes has an animal that represents that plane. The underworld is where the snake lives. The earth is where the puma lives and the heavens is where the condor lives. This symbol was pretty much found throughout all the Incan s
ites that we visited. Hiking in Peru is hard. Especially when we found out that Cuzco and the Sacred Valley is at a higher altitude than Machu Picchu. It's funny cause everyone thinks that Machu Picchu is so high up, but Cuzco is higher. I figured that once I hiked Cuzco, then Machu Picchu would be a breeze...so to speak. From Ollantaytambo we went to Chinchero to check out an Incan ruin that had a Spanish Cathedral built over it. The picture below the fountain is of the Cathedral. It's crazy because you can see where the Incan ruins end and the Spanish Cathedral begins so perfectly. The picture below the fountain is of the Cathedral in Chinch
ero.On our bus ride, AL and I talked to these two cool young nuns from the states. They were in their 20s and we talked a bit about liberation theology and its impact on Latin America. They also talked about the declining enrollment of nuns in the US. The median age for nuns in the US... 71 years old. That's median folks. Anyways, they were doing missions in Peru and they were saying that it was cool for them because in Peru there were many girls their age and younger becoming nuns.Just visiting those three sites and getting lunch took the whole day and we got back at 7 pm at
night. We were wiped out by then...but what an experience. 
