Cusco, Peru 🇵🇪 

Steve leaves today and is up early to bid us farewell.  We are booked on a cheap tour again, this time to see the Inka site of Moray and the Salt mines.  The tour does its usual thing of stopping at tourist traps, might be a requirement of the government or just extra commission.

Moray is stunning, with circular terraces descending into the ground, all watered by a irrigation system to keep crops watered and to divert rain.  The temperature varies by 15 degrees from top to bottom, half a degree difference for each step.  It is widely agreed that this site was used to test different crops for farming.

The Salt mines are crazy, we walk down into a valley where a natural spring brings salted water up.  They build small pools on the side of the valley to catch and evaporated the water until they can harvest the salt.  Looks like back breaking work, but the different coloured pools make for good photos.

I booked a sports massage for this afternoon as my back feels pretty tense.  The masseuse, Dan was from Somerset and did a great job in getting more movement in my body.  Tonight we go out to a bistro that specialises in fish.  Justin has a combo of ceviche, fried calamari and a local dish of seafood risotto.  I went for the beer battered fish and chips.  It's been ages since I've had it and this was very tasty, shame we weren't on a seafront.

Moray site

Mining for salt