Day 15

So this is the cobbler. and what a cobbler!

This morning we were in Aguas Calientes and now we are back in ***** Cusco. We are back in the same room and it is good to be somewhere familiar after days of moving about Peru.

After breakfast, which was peruvian magic as usual with sumptuous fruit, we went to the public hot springs where D had been two years ago. Now they charge for the key to the locker ¡20p! and for the use of the baths. In the hottest bath we met Mamma Lima, a lovely large lady who was trying in vain to reduce her double chins and who was kindness itself telling us where the hottest part was, to bury our feet in the sand and giggling girlishly at complements about Peru, the food, the landscape and the people.

Back to the hotel and Margaret will tell you about the orchids!

The hotel we stayed in last night is very eco-friendly: they grow their own tea and coffee and use them in the hotel. They do a lot of preservation too. We went with a guide to see the kinds of things that were growing naturally and have some lovely photos of orchids. It is not the season for orchids so there weren´t as many as we would see later. Gorgeous nevertheless. Our guide, Carmen, was lovely: she said that I didn´t speak Spanish with a foreign accent.

Train and bus and back to Cusco. Having a lazy evening after re-sorting and re-packing our luggage. Don´t know about blogging tomorrow, but we´ll soon be within communication distance. Thanks for reading this, bye bye.