Cusco, Peru ...Part One

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I am in Cuzco, Peru and have been for the past two weeks or so. I am staying in a hostel off the main plaza (Plaza de Armas) called the Mirador. For most of the time I had been in my own room with a queen bed for 20 soles ($6.30). Yesterday I moved across the hall with a smaller bed and a lot less space for 15 soles ($5). This is more expensive than other Hostels I have stayed in in the past month but is still not bad, eh?

I haven´t done any traveling around in the past few weeks because I just finished fourteen days of spanish classes. They where four hours a day and seven days per week. I had been walking about 6K to school (1hr) and then around 9-12K on the way back home. Needless to say that after hikes, walking and eating a little healthier over the last month I have lost around 20lbs. This is the lightest I have been in about six years. Other than school I was just having as much fun as possible. Class was from 10-2pm and when I got back to the hostel after class I would either meet up with friends of the hostel or just cruise alone exploring the city until night time.

At night we do more exploring just with the inclusion of going to the discotecas (clubs). Every night is a good night for the bars and clubs in Cuzco. Generally on the weekdays we take it easy and go out to the hooka bar (Indago´s) to play poker, smoke hooka, and drink a few beers. Indago´s has the best music and is our favorite hangout.

The other guys and I ditched our plan to do a trek after being in Cusco for three weeks we were ready to just get out of there. Especially if I am going back later to do Machu Picchu and other things later. (By the way that is the plan now). I decided to go with Mike and Kilo north to Mancora, Peru which is a beach town in northern Peru. After that we are going north to Ecuador and Columbia. Why not? I´ll just add in two more countries and then fly back down to Cusco and pick up where I left off!