After our relaxed night in cusco we decided to get out of the city again. The hotel that we have been staying at has 3 locations all of which help the orphaned children in cusco. The 2 locations are near old town cusco and the third is a hacienda outside the city. We decided to try it out for a night and couldn't have been happier with it. We started with a taxi to the country side and got settled into our own resort. We had an entire house at this resort, there was 3 bedrooms, 2 floors and a room with a fire place. There was also no one there other than the staff, and we got to hop on our horses for a trail ride in the country side. These horses were quite lively compared to the cusco ones and they were ready for a run, Geoff's horse was crazy and was either whipping my horse with her tail or trying to kick it, and biting the guides horse on the butt.. Only our trail guide new we were white gringos and was not going to let us run wild with the horses. It started to rain, and only got worse so we turned around and our guide eventually let us run... Only he didn't tell us and my stirrups were not fitted properly so as fun as it was it was scary as hell because my feet came out of both stirrups so I had to hold on for dear life through a muddy section in the road and all. Afterwards I was happy that I didn't fall off, and our guide was laughing about how fun it was... It was freezing cold and pouring when we got off but the staff got a great fire going for us. We ended up having a relaxing afternoon by the fire and the rain didn't let up until later in the afternoon. We got cleaned up for our dinner and started into a bottle of wine at the lodge. No one was there still and at dinner we were still the only ones getting our 3 course Peruvian meal. It was delicious! Pumpkin soup followed by a steak gravy potato dish and then apple crisp with tea.
The next morning we were up at 6am to take a taxi back into town, we had made an arrangement to meet the guy who sold us our tickets at the station to give us the tickets. We were nervous he might not show up but he did...however, the return tickets were wrong but he assured us someone would bring us new return tickets when we arrived in Puno. We had no choice but to trust him and he hadn't given us any reason not to. We hopped on the bus for the very long 10 hour ride. We had 5 stops a log the way most were unimpressive, but some of the ruins were pretty cool. Unfortunately Geoff had a nasty headache for the entire trip, possibly from the altitude, hard to say, this made the 10 hour ride drag on though. When we finally arrived Geoff took some Advil and we both freshened up with long hot showers at our hotel, La Hacienda plaza de armas. The guy was supposed to drop off our bus tickets but he never showed up, so we just headed out for dinner. We went to a place just across the street, Mojsa Restaurant. We had a fresh salad which was delicious and we tried the trout civiche that Brian our taxi driver recommended, it did not disappoint, it was delicious!!!!
We got up bright and early again today for a tour of Lagos Titicaca. We got to our boat and headed off to the floating island, Isla Uros. It was a fascinating place, hard to describe, the entire village is floating and made of lake reeds. From Uros we headed to Tequela Island were we snuck away from our tour group and went and did our own thing. We went for lunch at a little place in the corner, for 30 soles we had a delicious quinoa soup, some fresh grilled lake trout and some matte tea. It was an amazing lunch. We toured around the little town on the island and then headed back to the boat. The only down side to the day was our boat was probably the slowest on the lake and it was a 5 hour round trip which was boring!!
We went out tonight looking for "cuy" aka guinea pig but failed, our dinner was nothing to write about so I think I will stop there.
Our time in Peru is coming to an end, we head back to Cuzco tomorrow by bus and then the next day we depart to brazil. We are both excited for some beach time and maybe a sleep in or two.
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