Cusco

We flew to Cusco yesterday. This is my second time coming to Cusco, it is my favorite city of all that I have been to. Inca stonework under spanish colonial buildings. Warm during the day, cold at night. Up high at 9,000 ft in the Andes. Another note on drugs, we were offered weed at least 15 times yesterday. We found a hostel for $4.50 a night and had delicious alpaca steaks for lunch. I bought a small bag of coca leaves from an indigenous woman and chad and I chewed wads of them mixed with gum to hold off some of the affects of the altitude. Coca chewing is an ancient tradition in the Andes, predating the Incas by thousands of years. I am hoping to find some chicha, beer made from chewed up corn that is sold in rural areas in the mountains. Our room in the hostel was oddly decorated, we had a picture of Jesus on one wall and on the other a painting of a naked woman with a mullet and sideburns smoking a cigarette. Last night I froze. I had on three shirts, sweatshirt, jeans, socks, was under three blankets, and even had on my tobaggan, but I was still freezing. I just checked the weather and it got down to 34F last night. Our room was probably not much warmer than that because we have open cracks to the outside haha. Such are the Andes.