South- and Central America

After sleeping out I had breakfast at the hostel with a nice conversation with a hostel stuff. I made laundry and wanted to go to one museum ( inca Raritäten) which is not open. I will do it on Monday.

Then I went after one cappuccino to a the museum Coricancha Qurikancha, which was the sun temple ( the biggest temple in Cusco, Cusco= Capital of the Incas) of the Incas.

OMG I learned so much today about the Incas in this museum!:

- the Museum was the Tempel of the sun, before it was damaged by the Spains
- size: the Incas were at the biggest till 1532 from kolumbia till Santiago
-Stones: they had so different stones for different usage and their temples had so much steps and in the temples the sun with a face inside was their main symbol teine
- Inca calendar
- Inca Astronomie (explains the Nisca lines?)
- in the museum were Spanish and Inca stuff, but the Spanish stuff did not interested me so much.
- they had a Temple of the sun, rainbow, moon, lightning, Venus, stars and the highest priest.
- they sacrificed kids
-They had in our winter fasting months
- they involved patcha mama!

—> the Spanish damaged so much and it is crazy, that they used all material for their cathedrales and churches again. Ruining a culture, idiots.

Resume: OMG I felt in love with that museum and their culture, that’s the reason I I stayed 3h there. The bell tower there was my last steps.

P.S. : I payed the entrance for a student haha, but unfortunately not for Machu Pichu😂 physical card blah blah

So I was lucky, that I had not to wait for the chocolate workshop in the chocolate museum, because I informed about that yesterday.

It was super interesting to make my own chocolate, got in touch with the process of making and to try different chocolates. (Over 65% it is to bitter for me) facts:

-There are three kinds of chocolate: dark, milk and white, which is in the industry not natural made.
- Peru has of the best Kakaos, because of their diversity ( also Brazil and south west Africa) otherwise chocolate is best at Belgium and Swiss
- white chocolate will be done after pressing the cold chocolate

My selfmade chocolate tasted amazing and I did the course with an introverted and strange American called Cliff.

I bought some stuff for the 2 days one night trip to Machu Pichu. I decided myself against the Inca trail or the salkantatrek(should be amazing), because it would be to long and to expensive. Also agains the train, because two ways are 120€. My buses are 20

So the evening was against chilled and I am looking forward to Machu Pichu.

Bus to hydroelectrica—> 3h hike to agua calientes and sleep there. —> 2h hike to Machu Pichu —> 2-3h there —> 3h down to hydroelectrica and pick up at 14:15. back in the hostel at ~9pm. Sleep one night there, Inca museum and then off too nisca lines!もっと詳しく