Day 9 – Cusco!

Today we arrived into Cusco from an 11 hour overnight Bus that was truly awful and hot!

We went out for breakfast and a couple of hours walk around the city to see some of the highlights, at the altitude of 3,400ft it was tough doing all the stairs with the walk! Deep breath!

The covered market San Pedro market, it first was built and designed in 1925 by the French architect Gustave Eiffel, the man who built the famous Eiffel Tower; it was the largest covered area built in the city of Cusco, and it still is. You find stalls for everything from fruit, veg, meat, souvenirs and more.

I had pre-booked this cooking class before I left the UK and I was the only one, so a solo class for me!

We started off making a Pisci sour, this was actually my first one! We tired Pisco previously. The Pisco sour includes Pisco, lime juice, sugar syrup, aromatic bitters. It was yummy! Though some of the guys have had bad ones out.

First of all we started with a Quinoa salad. Quinoa is very popular and grown here. I got to add all the ingredients and then present the plate in a professional way with a mold. It was really yummy, the vinaigrette was tasty.

For main we did a kind of Beef stiry fry with rice and chips. As you will see from the photos we added a shot of Pisco and burnt off the alcohol. The flames were huge!

Lastly finished with chocolate ice cream and a coco tea. It was all really nice and fair to say I didn’t need any dinner!! Which was good as I didn’t sleep alot on the bus so had an early night!