Wednesday, May 20, was our last day iin Cusco. We wandered around town, visited several museums, and Nick finally got his shoes shined in the Plaza. The most interesting of the museums was the Regional History Museum. It's housed in the colonial house of
Garcilasco de la Vega, the son of an Inca princess and a Spanish Captain. De la Vega, living in Spain after the age of 21, wrote extensive histories of the period and is recognized as the foremost chronicler of the era.
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| Entrance to De la Vega's Home |
That evening, we dined at
Chicha, the Cusco presence of Peruvian celebrity chef Gaston Acurio. Nick had the
cuy (guinea pig) on a bed of quinoa, and I had pork. Both excellent. We followed this with attendance at a production of traditional local dancing at the Cusco Center of Native Art.
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| Removing Months of Grime from Nick's Shoes! |
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| Traditional Dances |
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| In this Dance, the Man Proposes, the Woman Demures, and He Picks Her Up and Carries Her Off! |
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