Cusco

We soon found Cusco was very different from your normal city, some places poor but everyone is very friendly and helpful.

Ok let’s start with the houses:  

In the poor parts of Cusco most of the houses are made of mud bricks which are called adobes, and in main Cusco lots of garden walls and walls which are not part of the houses are made of adobes. Lots of the hoses have little shops in the front, so up every street there are about 6or7 little food shops, very good for your sublime supplies! The poor houses on the out skirts of Cusco are very basic and lots of the times have guinea pigs running about the floor!

            Sublimes: Well is says it in the name doesn’t it.

The streets:

Only the main roads in cusco are tarmac, all the rest (and there are lots of little streets) are cobble, now I said that there are lots of little shops they are beaten only by the hundreds of people selling …………… well um err everything really, here is the list of the top of my head:

Bread-‘big, round, sweet’      

Chocolates-‘all types’

Limes-‘little ones, no lemons’

Quail eggs-‘as fresh as you want’

Little fluffy llamas-‘um white and brown!’

Finger puppets-‘billons’

Telephone calls-‘llamadas llamadas’

Scales-‘to do your weight in the street’

Soup-‘with the ingredients on a plate on the top’

Churros-‘with dulce de leche’

Meat skewers-‘for skewering meat I’ pose’ 

Pieces of pineapple

Passport photos-‘hundreds’

Orange juice-‘nice and sweet’

Toenail clippers-‘all shapes and sizes’

DVDs-‘almost giving them away’

Flours-‘lots of colours’

Postcards-“would you like a picture my friend, I drew them”

“No gracias”

“only 5sols each my friend”

“NO gracias” etc etc’

Shoe cleaning-about 50% of people on the street ask if you need a shoe clean

Pegs-for hanging up clothes

Wow

Dogs:

The population of dog in Cusco must be the same as the population of all dogs in Europe. Hundreds everywhere, every house has dog, you walk down the street woof woof RRRA woof grrrrr neneneene.  In the night the cars don’t keep you awake…….the dogs do.

I expect all the dogs have flees we even saw a dog with dread locks, THE DREADED DOG.

            Markets:

Cusco has lots of markets, the biggest one we went to was called Molino and it is huge we went there on Friday, it has to big under cover places (no floor) on with food and one with everything else (it would be impossible to give a proper list) there is a fresh juice maker and we had jug of strawberry it was heaven. There are lots of other different markets in Cusco, food markets, tourists markets, local markets etc etc. Also we went to a supper market where they had loads of things bags of sugar about the size of minis, fresh fruit. Oh and how fresh do you want your chicken, killed, plucked and cut up in front of you?

Jed