Ururtoytombo and Pisac

Hello hello! I have not been able to update the blog very well because we have been so busy. The girls are currently out shopping and I am simply about shopped out. I can´t keep up with them. Yesterday, 12 of us rented a driver and a huge van who took us to Pisac and Ururtoytombo (that´s how it sounds, no clue how to spell it). It cost each of us 10 dollars to hire this guy for the ENTIRE day- I still can´t believe how cheap this place is. We went to a market in Pisac for a little while then headed to Ururtoytombo to hike up a hill just outside town. There are Inkan ruins on several sides of the town. We hiked up to the free ones, which looked over the whole town and the other ruins (the ones you had to pay for, ha!). We hung out up in the ruins for awhile, taking in the scenery and the vastness of the mountains surrounding the towns. I would guess that most of the mountains surrounding the town topped out at 14000ft, which is just about as tall as the highest mountain in the lower 48. There were several peaks in the area that top out at 19-20 thousand feet, which happens to about a mile higher than the tallest peak in the lower 48. So awesome. Mountaineers come from around the world to climb some of these peaks- we are probably going to have to wait till the next visit to Peru to do that. After the hike we headed back and had another 5 star meal for about 20 bucks, hit a local bar then called it a night. Another successful day in Cusco. The one pic is of me in front of the ruins we hiked up to with Ururtoytombo in the background, the other is just of the town and the last pic is of one of those 19,000 foot mountains. Stay tuned for more!