At 6am, we walked across the street to the bus station. The bus ride took about 25 minutes and we caught some amazing views of the morning fog with the mountains. We arrived and met up with Cat the rest of our tour group. It was really foggy and we couldn't see anything yet. But once it cleared up, the view was breathtaking. I felt so close to the sky as if I was in a snow globe. I don't know if the photos I took can truly translate the spectacular view. We walked up many steps; it was definitely a great cardio workout! I don't know how the Inka people did it. After our tour, we were free to roam around. We found a nice little spot to have a picnic and just chilled. Then, we hiked a trail to the drawbridge, which was not the kind of bridge we expected it to be. We thought it was like a rope bridge that we can walk across, but it was only a wooden platform and it was blocked off since it would have been too dangerous to walk across. It was a nice trail and took us about 1 hour roundtrip.
We headed back to the ruins and I found a nice little area to relax and listen to my iPod. I wanted to fall asleep to see if I'd hae any weird dreams, but after about 30-40 minutes, I was kindly asked by an employee to leave the area since I'm not allow to sleep there. So as I made my way back to the ruins, it started to rain! So everyone started to head towards the exit. But guess what group of people busted out their umbrellas? That's right...the Japanese tourists! Haha. Ok, I admit it. I brought my umbrella, too, but left it in Cusco.
I arrived back in Cusco that night around 10pm, and Marisa and I went to go check out the discotecas (clubs) at the Plaza. It seems like no matter which club you go to, all of them have free salsa lessons before 10pm or 11pm. We checked out the salsa dancing at Mythology, then ahead over to Mama Africa to hear a live reggae band. Peruvians here LOVE reggae music, and I hear the music of Michael Jackson, Madonna, and Sean Paul on the radio all the time. For whatever reason, they also love the theme song to the TV show, "The Wonder Years".
