June 10-11, Festivities!

It's been a busy couple of days for us in Cusco to say the least! Yesterday we began with a trip up to the Inca ruins of Qenko and Saqsayhuaman, the great stone fortress that sits on the hills above Cusco. A few of the students tried to commune with one of the giant corner stones there. Don't know how much luck they had.


From there, we hiked back down to Cusco where we were just in time to see a number of the Saints entering the Plaza de Armas in advance of today's main event, Corpus Christi.
Corpus Christi is a huge holiday in Peru, but particularly huge for Cusco. In Cusco, the 15 Saints from surrounding churches are brought on giant litters carried by dozens of men, into the main Cathedral where they spend the night together before the main procession. Kind of a Saint sleep over. Here are a couple pics of the main procession today.





Tomorrow we're off to the Salt ponds of Maras and the Sacred Valley. More later!

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