Sexy women at New Year

Firstly the title, Sacsayhuaman are the ruins that stand over Cusco, but in gringo speak they are called Sexywoman.

Ruins through the gum trees

On New Years Eve we climbed Sacsayhuaman, and to be honest we were more than a little over ruins. We were ruined, as G would say. Although these were maybe some of the most impressive. Boulders carved with channels for the blood to run during human and animal sacrifice. Enormous stones erected into walls, just too huge to imagine. 

Rasta llama

Each stone is about 2m tall

According to our research this is an original Bansky

And so New Year rolled around and we decided to do what everyone else in Cusco does, go down to the main square, Plaza de Armas and join in the fun. And to make it truely Peruvian we bought ourselves a bottle of vodka and wandered through the masses, trying our hardest to avoid the fireworks being let off by everyone around us. We needed the vodka to steel our nerves against the fright. As the clock struck 12 everyone around us started frantically shoveling grapes into their mouths. We found out later you eat one grape for every hope you have for the year to come. So everyone looked like squirrels, cheeks bulging with grapes. And then the masses started to move, another tradition, to run around the plaza 12 times. It was madness, but exhilarating, hilarious madness. 2012 is going to be a beauty!

HAPPY NEW YEAR 2012
Celebrating with Cusco's finest bubbles - so sweet we couldn't stomach it!