The Adventures of Hello Kitty: Wandering around downtown Cusco

So last night a was a rough night for Mike--altitude sickness finally hit him and he was up sick for a better majority of the evening.  Which means, since he is typically the one with the stronger stomach and immune system, I will be falling victim to the porcelain king in due time.  But after a light breakfast with some yummy bread at a Panaderia we found down the street we were off.

We walked around downtown a went into many many many shops.  We finally hit the crafting district where we ended up purchasing most of our gifts for people.  We also walked by some great mini-markets and got some shots of the produce and ick....chicken feet, that were being sold.  A family even let us take a picture of their cute pup wearing a rain jacket.   

Everything we purchased today

So the main craft of choice here in Cusco is weaving and knitting.  The items we picked up are made from Alpaca fiber.   I also tried my hand at bartering and either I'm really good at it or the vendors were taking pity on my boater Spanish--either way, we scored great deals!

Very important to grab snacks as we are walking-bottled sport drink, two bags of chips came out to less than $1.00 USD