alicia08

Mountains and Rainforest

Posted by alicia08 | 2nd December 2008

Graham:

We left you last in Cusco...ok, so that was 3 weeks ago and we´re now in Mexico, but hey, travelling is a busy life! So here´s a little catch up on our 2 weeks in Peru, our last stop in South America, which is a shame because its been a brilliant, packed with interesting places and people, endless stunning landscapes and great food and drink (Bolivian beer aside). I´d highly recommend a trip there to anyone. Anyway....

Cusco, the centre of the old Inca empire, has to be the nicest looking city we have visited so far. In all of the central area the Spanish colonial buildings have been immaculately maintained with not a plate glass window in site. The Spanish destroyed or built over most of the Inca buildings but here and there a few remain which you stumble across as you wander the tight cobbled streets. By law you cant build a roof in Cusco with anything but tiles so from our hostel on the hill the city was a sea of red tiled roofs, white buildings and endless churches (t

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