Last look at Sacred Valley

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Our driver from Sunday picked us up in Ollantaytambo, and since Len hadn't had enough time to shop at the Pisac market, we returned for a couple more hours. This is such a quaint Andean village! We bought a few more things, and had some choclo, which is their strange kind of corn on the cob. The kernels are huge and pale yellow. Yum! Peru is a very economical country for U.S. visitors. A taxi for a 70 mile drive is $40. Dinner at an upscale restaurant is $8.00, and at a local diner, it's about $2.50. A bed and breakfast in the small villages is about $35.00, and an upscale hotel in the modern sections of Lima is about $60.00. Sally bought an alpaca cape for $30.00. It would be at least $100.00 in the U. S. A new motorcycle is $800.00, and they can buy a house for $8000.00. Of course, their salaries are also very low. Construction workers make about $6.00 a day. What a country! After shopping, our driver took us back over the mountain to the airport at Cusco where we caught our flight to Lima. There was some kind of protest going on in Cusco, and it was causing problems with traffic to the airport. We were told it was teachers protesting low wages. Those darn teachers; they're the same everywhere! We had a nice hotel in Lima, found a good place to eat, and were ready for bed early, since we had to be up at 3:00 a.m.

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[Kayla]

Hooray for sales!