A short flight had brought us from Arequipa (via Juliaca) to Cuzco in the late morning. Today was a special day – England was playing (and loosing) against Portugal in the soccer world cup.

Of course the English part of the group wanted to see this game. Good news was that we arrived in Cuzco in time – bad news that there was a parade and we ended up in a traffic jam… The longer we waited, the more the English guys turned impatient, finally they asked the driver to get off the bus to go on by foot, making their way through the parade.

Once we made it to the hotel, we met again for an orientation walk of town – for obvious reasons the English and Australian part of the group did not join in (the game was still on).

In the afternoon Merete, Aisling and myself did a trip through town with the tourist bus – with the highlight being the viewpoint from top of town.