After getting a few hours sleep we got up and still caught the end of the hotel buffet breakfast. We love the Magnolia Hotel - it is a small boutique hotel with only about 40 rooms located in the main shopping district. We planned to do a walking tour in the afternoon so we headed out to find where we were to meet the tour. We walked around the very busy downtown shopping area for over an hour. It was very clean and modern and looked just like most North American...

What we expected to be a long and tiring day of travel turned out to be not so bad. Our flights from Cusco thru Lima to Santiago started at 5:00 PM and ended in Santiago at 3:15 AM. Our transfer to the Cusco airport was not until 2:30 so we took the opportunity to take a sightseeing bus tour around Cusco in the morning. The area surrounding Cusco is quite pretty. We went way up a hill where we saw some more Inca archaeological sights and a smaller version of Chri...