Before we start, Tali says "Hi". Continuing, today we went on a bus tour of the outer parts of the city of Cusco. The experiences we were met with were vastly different from those we saw within the city. We got to learn how adobe bricks are made and how people construct houses with them. The people making the bricks work for 8 hours every day, making almost 500 bricks per day. In perspective, a two story house requires more than 3,000 bricks to construct! The people working for a whole day make about 50 soles ($18). Suddenly getting 3-5 soles per person for taking pictures with llamas doesn't seem as hopeless. We had an opportunity to make some bricks ourselves which was a lot of fun!
We then visited a public school and got hailed on. A local restaurant showed us how they make a traditional alcoholic corn drink whose name escapes me. At this point we stopped at a wonderful store that specialized in fried dough in doughnut form. They were coated in a maple syrup like sauce that made it that much more delicious.
Our entire day was punctuated with rain, however we had a amazing tour anyways. This was our last day with Jesus, the director of the Amigos school that organized all these trips for us and we were all sad too see him go. (He gave us his card though so we may be in touch in the future).
Maxwell
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