We left Cusco for the Lake Titicaca. Cusco was the capital at the time of the Incas, the city is charming with these churches and the remains of Inca architecture, the conquistadors reconstructed the city on top of the Inca foundations. Cusco is very touristy, it is the starting point to visit the famous Machu Picchu.

The city is 3360m above sea level and here it rains every day, during the day we passed through the four seasons and in the evening it get cold. We arrived a week before Carô, our Brazilian friend who will come to join us for Christmas.
We mooved 3 times before finding a decent Hotels with reasonable price. We enjoyed the city, and after few days we even felt a little bit like at home. To know better about the history and local cuisine we did a free walking tour of the city.

One day we went to visit the village of Pisaq an hour away from Cusco, where we climbed the mountain to enjoy the view and some Inca ruins.

We went out one night and did a tour of the nightclubs of Cusco until 6.00am with Peruvians and foreigners. Carol danced on all the bars of the city. We had a lot of fun!

Another day we did a guided tour to visit an ancient Inca agriculture laboratory in Moray and the salt mines of Maras.

Carô arrived on December 24th in the afternoon. Alexis went to get a tattoo of an Inca condor on his back as his Christmas present. Then we cooked to spend Christmas in a couchsurfing meeting with fifty people, everyone should bring a specialty of his country. Carol made a Brazilian red bean soup, some rabanada and brigadeiros and Alexis made a French mushroom soup. We had a Merry Christmas, Alexis played guitar and everyone was singing along! We ended the night in a club…