Today we had to get up relatively early to catch our bus for the sacred valley tour. Fortunately we made it in time and had a very nice guide. I liked this tour more than the tour around Cuzco yesterday, because we spent a higher percentage of the trip outside the bus.The ruins and their history was also really interesting – it’s just a pity the photos always look ten times less magnificent than the originals.

For me it’s quite funny how widespread the use of Facebook is over here, it’s even more extreme than in Germany though Smartphones are far more luxurious over here than in Germany. The tour guides refered to Facebook several times. Another strange thing I noticed is people taking pictures with their iPads. Apart from the poor quality of the iPads camera it looks quite strange to take pictures with that (for a camera) giant thing.

We had an included lunch with this tour which was very touristic – crowded and relatively low quality. Afterwards in Ollyantaitambo we had some free time and the Pervians went to the train station to buy there tickets for our ride to Cuzco tomorrow. It’s quite a chaos – there are trains specifically for Peruvians with far lower fares, but it seems as if the tickets can only be bought at the station and not more than a day in advance. Thus they couldn’t reserve the return tickets. We walked around and took pictures a little bit too long, so our bus was waiting and we appologize multiple times. The infamous “hora peruana” that everybody sticks to in Lima seems not to work here, we already experienced that yesterday. Actually it was bad planning to go back to Lima at all, because we would leave for Ollyantaytambo again directly the following day to take the train to Aguas Calientes.