Hostal Huiñary (or something like that...) - Saphi Street, 10 soles a night (includes breakfast with hard bread and pancakes!)Before putting on our trekking shoes and heading up to Machu Picchu, one of the 7 wonders of the world, we spent a couple of days in Cuzco relaxing and getting to know the city. We arrived in Cuzco with our new Swedish friends and we followed them to a cheap hostel to meet their Brazilian friend, Livia. The hostel turned out to be a Hebrew hostel and the 5 of us, the only non-Israelis there. The place was nice, had a cozy feel, although, it was actually so cold that Laura and I had to sleep in the same bed in order to avoid freezing to death at night.
Cuzco turned out to be less annoying than we had imagined, since everyone told us it was sooo touristy. We did get tired of people asking us if we wanted massages. They were even selling Swedish Massages to Swedes who had never heard of such a thing.
The food in Cuzco wasn't the best we had eaten, but we did try alpaca (similar to a llama) burgers. Tasted like a hamburger to me!
We spent one afternoon hiking up a zillion stairs to a giant statue of Jesus Cristo, of course on the top of a big hill. When we got to the top it was raining and so muddy that we literally slid to the feet of Jesus.
While in Cuzco we did learn a few important things. Livia taught us a
cheap and off--the-beaten track way to get up to Machu Picchu. Most tours that take the Inca trail cost anywhere between 200 and 500 dollars. We spent $100. Almost equally as important, we learned that there are no Swedish Fish in Sweden! (What?? How can this be? Have the candy companies been deceiving us?) However, although the Swedes didn't know what Swedish Fish are, they told us that there is this really popular thing in Sweden called "Rhode Island Sauce" and that french fries are not complete without it. (Ummm... Rhode Islanders out there... have you heard 
of this??)Cuzco is definitely a really beautiful city, probably the most beautiful we've seen so far, except Quito of course.
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