Spent the morning at the market. Bought new shoes, gifts and earrings.
After lunch, we took a four hour tour today of Cuzco. It was so cool!! We saw a temple that was half Inca and half Roman. Second, we toured Cuzco's cathedral and the church of the society of Jesus. It was so pretty! We couldn't take pictures, so I bought postcards. My favourite story was of the Black Christ. He's black because not only did people leave flowers as offering, they also lit candles. The smoke from the candles look the paint off the statue and turned Him black. He is wearing a skirt because His loin cloth disintegrated and fell off, leaving His groin exposed and completely white!!
Second best story: the last supper was painted by a Peruvian man and the meal in the middle was changed to guinea pig, white corn, apples, potatoes and a Peruvian drink. The man in the front on the right is painted darker because its Judas; but the painter also modelled him after a not so liked leader at the time of the painting.
After we finished at the cathedral, we walked in the rain to our bus and got on. We went to four look out points that were amazing: Capital Arqueologica De Sudamerica; Q'enqo; Pukapukara; and Tambomachay. They were beautiful and we took lots of pictures.
The bus dropped us off at the town square and we met a ELCA missionary from Minnesota, who is stationed in Peru for 6 years, with her family (I'll write about her work in another Blog).
She took us to supper at a local restaurant. I had ravioli bolagnase. It was really good!!
Had the best shower of the whole trip and off to bed. Busy day tomorrow. Montu Picchu!!
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