Sep 23, 2016.  Hostal Soecia II, Cusco, Peru.

• Tour day.  Took the standard tour of Chinchero > Moray > Salinas.  All Spanish tourists, except three Austrian girls on vacation from their volunteer work on the coast.  Chinchero was a stop at a tourist shop, but with a nice explanation of where the dyes in the textiles come from.  Best yet: a little cuy house, full of guinea pigs.  

• Moray was a deep amphitheater-like set of concentric terraces, each layer with its own microclimate, according to depth.  Maybe the Incas used the terraces as a kind of laboratory to determine the optimal conditions for growing crops?  Lots of tourists.  

• Finally, Salinas: thousands of salt pans fed by a tiny, salty hot spring.  The salt is used for cattle licks - and was also for sale in little bags for tourists.  Most tourists of the day, but still a lovely sight.  

• Back by late afternoon, meal at the market, with a juice from the same lady that served us two days ago.  In bed by 6, but up till  11 trying to figure out where to go next.  Current thinking: Pisac tomorrow, then back to Cuzco for a night bus to Nazca; then Arequipa; bus to Puna; Lake Titicaca; Bolivia...