On Monday 08/24/09 we got up and headed to the hotel’s dining room for breakfast. We had Andean cereal mixed with papaya and yogurt, eggs, bread, butter, strawberry jam, juice, coffee…a pretty good spread. We were supposed to meet up with Percy at 9am but Cathy wasn’t feeling very well (altitude sickness), so it took us a bit to get going waiting for the anti-altitude sickness pills to take effect. The city tour included Sacsayhuaman, Tambomachay, Pucapucara, and Qenqo and would last ½ day. On the way to Sacsayhuaman, we stopped at an outlook, where one can see the entire city of Cuzco, capital of the Inca Empire (1200s to 1532). In the distance, the snowcapped mountain Ausangati rises to 6,380 meters (21,000 feet) above sea level. Our first stop, Sacsayhuaman, is an impressive Inca complex
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