Sacsayhuaman (sound it out)

The trip has started off great. Lots of family time... We´ve spent the last few days in Cusco the tourist mecca of Peru. Our first day took us to the ruins of Sacsayhuaman (don´t say it wrong, the locals get offended) just outside of town where I stood a foot from a real live condor hugged a 128 ton boulder transplanted by the incas on rolled logs and met Jose. Maybe it was his terrible english accent or just his love of the subject matter but we ended up spending the next two days with him. He took us around to similar ruins in the Sacred Valley in the shapes of llamas and pumas and through"cheap" mercados. On our second trek to the sacred valley we saw a Catholic church built on the stone foundation of an Incan temple, a site of concentric circles that the Incans used for agricultural experimentation and the salt mines that provided salt to the entire Incan empire and is still used to this day for the inhabitants of much of Peru. Needless to say, with the altitude combined with the long days, I´m pooped. Looking forward to our four day trek along the incan trail to Machu Pichu!