Post Inca Trail

Back at the hotel we presented Fernando and Berto with a tip from the group and thanked them for the most brilliant of treks. After the most amazing hot shower Jens and I sorted out our bags to allow for maximum amount of sleeping time in the morning before our 9:30am check out. We met the group at 8:30pm and went out to Norton's pub on the main square for some food to eat. We pretty much all had a burger and it was nice to spend a final night with the group. We also all looked unrecognisable to one another as we were all so clean! Jen and I called it a night and came back to the hotel, while half the group went to the pub for a drink. I was shattered and slept like a log!

We both woke up quite early, probably because we'd both been so used to getting up early over the past week. We went down for breakfast and apart from four people in our group who were catching flights, we were the first ones to breakfast. We hung around the hotel and caught up on emails and took advantage of the free wifi. We felt so tired still and our bodies were exhausted, so we decided to take it easy.

We went to a cafe up by San Blas square  called 'Pan...tastico'. It was tiny and only seated thirteen people. For the majority of the time we were the only ones in there. We were lured in by the most amazing passion fruit cake and when she brought out a straight out the oven banana and chocolate cake we couldn't resist! We then wandered down to the artisan market at the bottom of Av. del Sol. It was nice to look at all the handicrafts- there are so many nice things!

We then headed back to San Pedro market and had a strawberry and orange juice to share. It was amazing! By that point it was late afternoon, so we wrote some postcards back at the hotel, had a quick chat to Alice and Adam from our tour group and went to pick up our laundry from up the road. We then headed out to Paddy's pub, an Irish pub and by no means Peruvian- all we wanted was some nice comfort food after the trek! Inside, we bumped into Chris, the guy who wasn't able to do the trek because he did his elbow in. We had dinner with him which was nice!

We really love it here in Cusco, so are planning to come back on our way back to Lima in two weeks time. We're on the Cruz del Sur bus now to Puno. We get in at 4:30am and are going to catch another bus to Copacabana in the morning. Hello Bolivia!