As is becoming a recurring theme in Peru, the woman in the ticket office at Ayacucho, hadn't listened to us. Peruvian's want to be helpful, but often they just seem to decide upon what you've said and then hear that, not what you actually asked! It's pretty frustrating. Because of this, we expected to be in Cusco by 5pm, we ended up in Andahuaylas at this time, after on of the most breathtaking journies ever it must be added, and still had a further 8 hours to come on our journey. We eventually arrived in to Cusco at 4am (we left at 8pm or so), the ticket woman told us the time for the wrong city! Estupido. But anyway, we got here, the Incan capital, tucked away in a lush (not in a Gavin and Stacy
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