Subject: Post: <p>Well, this was a fun day. After finally departing Starbucks towards our hostel me and Iryna decided that it would be a good idea to ask local car rental agency if they had decent offers available for the day. Renting a cheap car would be the same price as taking taxis if we wanted to visit the nearby archeological sites. We agreed on renting a cheap Toyota Yaris, the guy made a couple of calls and told us that he could not arrange the Yaris, but would give us a 4x4 pickup for the same price if it was ok to us.</p><p>The car arrived soon, and I didn't stop smiling for the rest of the day. There is something extremely pleasing in 2800 kilograms, big engine, real four-wheel drive and big mud tires. Not to mention the 10cm black steel rollcage and bumbers.</p><p>Naturally our plans just changed a bit from seeing the archeological sites to finding the steepest dirt road up to the highest mountain nearby. Offroading up the steep hill on the muddy road that was just wide enough for the car with a kilometer deep cliff on the roadside was extremely fun, too bad I didn't remember to take the video camera with us. On the top there was a nice mountain lake at over four kilometers altitude.</p><p>Before the mountain climbing we visited one archeological site, Saqsaywaman near Cusco. The site is an Inca fortress built on a hill overlooking the city, unfortunately mostly destroyed by Spanish invaders. Nowadays the main reasons to visit the site are the view over the city and the remaining Inca constructions: Huge stones which are precisely cut to fit together, so tight that even a piece of paper cannot be put in between the stones.</p><p>We also finally made a decision what we are going to do: Machu Picchu is not worth of eight hours of bus travel both ways, hours of walking and just visiting the site for three hours, not even mentioning the high cost. There are dozen of nice Inca sites nearby Cusco, so we will just stay here and travel through them in the next days by car.</p><p>During our today's journey we visited a restaurant a bit outside the city for a quick snack. The quick snack turned out to be an excellent four-course menu with some local drinks etc in a fancy restaurant. The most funny part was the price: 9 euros.</p> Latitude: Longitude: Security Code:
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