Subject: Post: <p>Damn. Our finally decided plans were pretty nicely shattered in the morning. The agricultural people are on strike, and they are blocking all the roads out of the city. Even taxis and buses are not going outside the city because the people are obviously throwing vehicles with vegetables and even rocks. The strike is expected to end after tomorrow, but today and tomorrow we would be stuck in the city. So, no Inca sites. I'm so happy we decided not to go for Machu Picchu, as we would now be stuck outside Cusco in tourist trap Aguas Calientes or even on the road. Being stuck in beautiful Cusco is much better option.</p><p>As going out of the city was not an option we just spent the day around the city then and had to rework our plans. The 22 hour bus trip to Lima was abandoned and flights on Peruvian Airlines booked for Saturday morning, which will allow us to spend entire Friday visiting the Inca sites after the strike ends. We returned the car, but will get the same car back on Thursday evening for Friday excursions, ready to depart at five in the morning. Returning the car was already a bit sad, I think I know what I will start looking for my next car back in Finland.. I also found a small dirt road that goes really close to Machu Picchu and the hot springs at Santa Teresa. That will be the destination.</p><p>The day was spent visiting the museums and shopping. Contemporary art museum, Chocolate museum, Regional History museum, San Pedro market.. And in the evening theater for some Peruvian folk dances.</p><p>I have been missing sunglasses all the trip, and as we now had time we visited some opticians in the city. We found a shop who promised to make me prescription sunglasses for tomorrow and their spanish-speaking doctor checked my eyes. The values had changed a bit from what was measured from my current glasses, and as my lens coating was in really bad shape I let them change the lenses of my glasses too.</p><p>The lens coating was already a bit damaged by washing in too hot water or just wearing when we left for the trip, and the sun heat in here finished it to really foggy. I would have anyway had to buy new ones in Finland in near future. Not bad to do it here, the new lenses were made in the shop and changed in an hour, and the price was like 35€ for "best quality" anti-reflection polycarbonate lenses. Now I just need to get used to these, but already starting to be ok. :)</p><p>So, we have been extending our stay in the hostel day by day, now going to stay four nights in total in this place. This is a small hostel with three rooms, an American really helpful owner and extremely cheap prices, just a couple of dollars per person per night. We now abandoned our private rooms just to make it easier for the owner, and are all sharing the five-bed room which was originally my and Iryna's private one. Timo is snoring like hell, just like usually.. And I'm considering of sticking my extremely smelly socks (have to wash my fivefingers tomorrow somehow) in his mouth..</p> Latitude: Longitude: Security Code:
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