Cusco

Cusco is a dream city - bright, colourful and always in a vibrant fiesta mode.
A continuous succession of parades, festivals, strikes and demonstrations are all enthusiastically attended with equal fervour and fanfare. The local markets were bursting with delights from local herbs to horse heads and a stall of what looked like llama testicles ...
An Incan city and one of the oldest cities in the Americas, there's an amazing blend of Incan and Spanish architecture - imposing Spanish Catholic churches were built on the amazing masonryof the ancients.
Preparing for the Incan trek I had been drinking gallons of coca leaf tea which was becoming difficult to stomach until I found the Coca leaf shop ... and coca leaf chocolate...and cookies ... and omg coca leaf brownies ..and suddenly I knew it was going to be ok ...