The good news: we arrived safely and with little or no altitude problems. The bad news: we left home at noon on Friday and arrived at 8:30 a.m. on Saturday. The Hotel Torre Dorado had a car waiting for us and took us directly to the hotel and let us check in early. Although the sight of a real bed was very attractive to these weary travelers, we managed to keep going. We dropped our luggage, drank a cup of cocoa tea, and had the driver take us to the city square so that we could have lunch and see the city of Cuzco.
I understand that Cuzco has about 300,000 people. It appeared to be a very poor city. We at lunch at a German restaurant, Heidi's (recommended by our hotel). The special of the day was cremo de pallar (lima bean soup), ossobuco in a bright orange vegetable sauce (which is beef that comes from the leg), rice, and salad (which we all four thought would be unwise to eat), and a carrot cake for dessert. We were assured that the water in our tea had been boiled, so we had tea made from a variety of fresh leaves (one can only imagine what they were). It was a good lunch, but only made us that much sleepier!
We continued walking around the town and finally gave in and called the hotel to come and get us around 3 p.m. We all disappeared to our rooms and what we agreed to be a short nap at 4:30 p.m. became a six hour nap for me, and Richard is still sleeping. We have big plans tomorrow to be rested and feeling good so that we can take a tour of the Sacred Valley.
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