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Day
11 (September 4, 2025) Cusco
Before
This day will be entirely dedicated to completing our list of visits in
Cusco.
The spots marked on the map are:
0- Cooper Hotel Boutique
1- Church of the Society of Jesus
2- Cusco Cathedral
3- Twelve-Angled Stone
4- San Cristóbal Viewpoint
5- Sacsayhuaman
6- San Blas Market
7- Coricancha
8- San Pedro Market
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After
Since we're awake much earlier, we have no problem going to breakfast
at 7 AM, the time we said we'd go. We leave a little after 8 AM to
finally see the Plaza de Armas, which is very close.
The cathedral has a sign saying that it does not allow tourist
visits until 10 AM and the Church of the Society of Jesus does not open
until 9 AM, so we head towards the 12-angled stone which, being on the
street, has no opening hours.
Along the way we passed several Inca walls where, instead of
carving stones of similar size for constructions, they tried to take
advantage of the entire size of the stone and worked on making them fit
together like a puzzle.
Back in the Plaza de Armas, we're going to visit the Church of
the Society of Jesus, which charges 20 soles and doesn't allow photos
or videos. Inside, I think I can guess the reason for the restriction:
the walls are covered with gold altarpieces with antique paintings.
Then we kill some time until the cathedral opens, which also
doesn't allow photos inside. It's like the church, but ten times more
elaborate. There are several rooms with much more gold and many works
of art.
I end up buying them a book for 50 soles to have a record of what I had
just seen. Afterwards, we go back to the hotel to rest, and around 1:30
PM we go out for lunch. We choose Mr. Cuy, where we order Inca-style
cuy, a sort of guinea pig typical of this area, with quinoa risotto for
me and noodles with Alfredo sauce for Eva. We pay 121 soles for
everything.
When we leave, Eva is not feeling well, so we go back to the hotel. The
altitude sickness is still there. Her breathing becomes rapid with any
effort. Eva go to bed, and I notice she have a slight fever. We'll see
how it goes.
In the afternoon, I go out to complete our sightseeing, so I
head straight to Coricancha, a colonial monastery built on top of an
Inca temple. It seems they don't allow photos or videos there either,
and when I ask about it, they explain that the restriction only applies
to the colonial art; the Inca sections can be photographed. The visit
basically consists of walking around a cloister with paintings, so I
finish it quickly.
Then I head towards the San Blas Market, which turns out to be
small and focused on food. Half of it is stalls selling produce, and
the other half is places to eat. With that, we've completed our list
for Cusco, and I return to the hotel where Eva is still sleeping.
We'll stay in our room and I'll only go out for a moment, at
night, to do some shopping and see the Plaza de Armas with its night
lighting.
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