Peru: Day 7

Well considering that day 6 was a complete mammoth of a post, day 7 is much shorter! We spent the night before in the little mountain town near Machu Picchu and then woke up early to catch our train ride back to Cusco.

Here is a mountain-side view of Cusco. So many houses crammed on top of each other, hey?

It was another beautiful day in Peru. Winter there proved to be stunning. 

Ancient architecture in the middle of more modern buildings. 

We spent most of the day checking out the ruins around Cusco. The first ruin we went to was Sacsayhuamán. Just say sexy women kind of fast weirdly and that pretty much how you pronounce it. 

I think this is the sign for Sexy Women in Quechua. 

This was our Chilean-hating tour guide for Sexy Women. He was pretty funny, moved really fast (you try walking up a million stairs in 100,000 metres above sea level elevation without falling over), and spoke Quechua on top of that! He's showing us a picture of what Sexy Women looked like in her (the ruin is a she) hay day. 

Pretty cool, hey?

They claim that these rocks were once underwater and that there are sea animal fossils in them. 

It's pretty cool how they put the rocks together perfectly!

Blue skies and Jesus:

More rocks:

The evil stairs! 

Family pictures sans the Rays... 

Overview of Sexy Women:

More history of Cusco: 

View of the Plaza de Armas:

Lovers! Ooooh, I need to go on my diet again....

On top of the world!

Proof of the sea creatures. The white around them is graffiti which our tour guide blamed on some "f'ing Chileans". Pretty sure it wasn't, but we just stood their and nodded.

Our next few stops were some more ruins. I can't remember really- I think I was suffering from elevation poisoning at this point. 

Going down into some caves:

This is either a bed or a sacrifice alter:

Or maybe a kings chair....

The matching weirdos:

More ruins:

And that was that for day 7! After we saw all the ruins, we went back to the Plaza and had dinner. Then it was straight to bed after that. Day 8 was our last day in Peru. We got to explore Lima a bit more, so that was pretty exciting! Staying tuned for day 8!