We arrived in Cuzco, Peru, what some call "The Rome of the Americas," and hit up the town immediately - going to museums, churches of gold, parks, plazas, ruins, bars, drag-costume parties, clubs, eating and drinking local delicacies, and shopping at the black market where you can buy name brand camping equipment directly out of fellow travellers' stolen backpacks for $5. Then we split off and the girls scammed their way into the Sacred Valley to look at Inca stuff, and the boys went rafting down the class 3+ Urubamba River where Gordo fell out twice but swam well. All was fun and grand and we all met back up. On the 31st we embarked on what we all have agreed to this point (for the 6th time) is our favorite part of the trip: A
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