The rest of the week turned out to be uneventful workwise, as there are protests and strikes happening now in the Cusco region. What we thought was a procession in the main square the other day was actually a protest. No teachers are working and transport services are also on strike. So, the second half of the week nobody came to work, no children came because the schools were closed and well I´m not really sure why nobody else came. So, we decided to visit the lagoon in Urcos, lots of people had told us we should go and we didn’t have anything else to do.
The lagoon is beautiful, and as no one was working there were lots of people there, playing volleyball and having picnics. We started to make our way around it as a family stopped us and asked if we wanted to play volleyball with them so we joined in. After that we played dodgeball and when we were tired and sweaty we decided to carry on our walk around the lake.
On the Saturday, we decided to plan our future trips and look around all the different travel agencies and compare prices to see what things we can do. We decided to ask if there was anything we could do on Sunday on such short notice and one company said that we could go do rafting and zip lining on the river Urubamba, so we decided to do it. It was amazing as you can see from the pictures. On these type of tourist trips you meet interesting people from all over the world and it was fun to chat with the others while doing the rafting. At one point, we stopped at some rocks and the guide asked us if we wanted to climb up and jump off, I was definitely up for it, the water was absolutely freezing. After doing rafting we had dinner and the vegetarian option was some type of soya meat, not really sure if I liked it or not, it had a very strange taste to it.
We are hoping the issue of the strike gets resolved soon so we can get to work but also so the kids can get back to school as they have already missed more than a week xx
Unwritten Adventures 