Going to Cusco

Teo, May 30, 2015

After a few days having fun around Machu Picchu, we left on a train to Ollantaytambo. Half an hour after we got on the train, when the train was moving very fast, there was an announcement about an old tradition. The tradition was half Peruvian and half Spanish. A few minutes later, a person dressed up as a lion came dancing through the aisle, getting women to stand up and dance with him. I thought it was cool. I especially liked his mask and his clothes, which had all the colors of the rainbow. He danced for about ten more mintues, and then the loudspeaker came on and said that there was going to be a fashion show. The train conductors just put the clothes on over thier uniforms. Most of the clothes were made out of alpaca. They walked back and forth up and down the aisle.

The train got into the station at Ollantaytambo and we got off. We walked up to the plaza and we saw bikers getting ready to do tricks. We saw bleachers and lots of people and ramps and a blow-up thing that said Red Bull on it. It looked like a big deal.

We took a little taxi back to the van that we would be taking to Cusco.

Javy and I grabbed our iPads and got into the van. Mom was sitting outside looking at the view.

We waited for about half an hour and some Australians climbed in. They were loud and said lots of bad words. Our mom was sitting next to one of these guys. You know those Australians, they always wear those little masks to cover up their eyes so that they can sleep. The man sitting next to our mom fell off his seat while he was sleeping, and he couldn't see for a second. 

We saw snow-capped mountains and lots of other mountains. Every time we turned on the switchbacks, we saw the town below.  We drove into Cusco, and dropped off the noisy cursing Austrailians. I was glad that it was quieter after that. We stopped at a main plaza, and there were lots of people. The van driver drove us to our hotel. We signed in and had to write in our names and our professions. Javy and I wrote in "good kids."

After a supper of sandwiches and ice cream, we got into bed and went to sleep.  The next day, we explored Cusco.