Took cab to Tambo Machay, with intention of walking back via various ruins to Sacsayhuman and to Cuzco. Beautiful morning turned into rainstorm. Cold and thoroughly wet, we sheltered in a cave/fissure in a hill, with the wind whistling through it, as though the gods really resented our presence. Eventually gave up, walked down the longest set of steps to a good local restaurant halfway down the mountain. Sat guiltily watching local women doing some hard work rebuilding steps that had been washed away by the previous year's floods. The women here are obviously as strong as the men and there is certainly no discrimination against women doing the heavy work.
Monday, 25 October 2010
Thursday 14th October - Cuzco
Took cab to Tambo Machay, with intention of walking back via various ruins to Sacsayhuman and to Cuzco. Beautiful morning turned into rainstorm. Cold and thoroughly wet, we sheltered in a cave/fissure in a hill, with the wind whistling through it, as though the gods really resented our presence. Eventually gave up, walked down the longest set of steps to a good local restaurant halfway down the mountain. Sat guiltily watching local women doing some hard work rebuilding steps that had been washed away by the previous year's floods. The women here are obviously as strong as the men and there is certainly no discrimination against women doing the heavy work.
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