Sacred Valley to Cusco

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We've been up and down the Sacred Valley today with a trip to the market in Pisac for one hour and then onto (a very pleasant) lunch at a country restaurant and our travel company's local agent then saw fit to take us to Ollentaytambo to see the Inca ruins! Jen enjoyed it but David had to bottle out because of a combination of vertigo and clumsiness.

We then did a circuitous route dropping other travellers off, first at the Hotel Pakaratimpu (out of which we checked this morning!), another at a Casa Andina establishment near Urubamba, two drops in Yucay, and then one drop in Cusco before getting to the Casa Andina where we had left one of our cases a few days ago. Our guide for the day had asked us to stay for "about" 40 minutes whilst "Sylvia" was busy dealing with something else and would escort us to our upgraded hotel, the Monasterio
. We suggested that Sylvia could make her own way to the Monasterio because we would be going there by taxi, which is what we did.

We are delighted by our decision regarding accommodation, despite the cost difference, but not by the local agents who are insisting on payment in advance this evening.

More will follow, but we've seen some lovely scenery this evening. On the whole, a wasted and frustrating day.

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