Cusco, Peru

Stephanie bargaining for the first time on our trip.

Someone how we spent an entire day doing errands; laundry, post cards, shopping... Stephanie was never a really big haggler, in fact neither was I. But after just experimenting a few tactics, we've managed to get away with a bunch of warm clothes for our trek up into the mountains. It also really helped out with the freezing cold weather at night in Cusco.

Peruvian women making belts on the street.

There were a lot of people trying to sell things to the tourists on the streets. Some of the things were Alpaca goods, fake raybans, and massages. Massages? At first I thought it was really strange that everyone was asking if you wanted a good massage, but after I thought about it, doing a four day trek over the Andes mountains actually sounded nice. The fake raybans were awesome. Guys would come up to and tell you they have real raybans, they would continue to bend them to prove they were real as if they were going to break it. After you would call them out and say they're fake, they would say "noooo, not fake, stolen my friend, stolen".

Plaza de Armas at night

After our day of errands, i went and climbed up the hill to take pictures at night. As I left the hostel I asked the lady if it was safe to walk around at night by myself since the book said there were lots of thefts at night for tourists. Not one problem. I deem Cusco safe.