Lunch

Leaving the Pisac market, we travelled for about 20 minutes to another town and stopped at a restaurant called Tunupa.  There we had a buffet lunch and were entertained by musicians.  There were four buffet tables.  The first one had sushi and other Japanese food!  The second had cold food such as salads and meats.  They weren't very different from many of the things we see on our buffet tables except most things were chopped much more finely and there was no lettuce that I could see.  For the meats, there was a cold pork with orange sauce and a marinated sliced alpaca ... and yes, I did try it.  It was very much like beef, but was sliced so thinly and marinated so well, it was very hard to tell !  The third table had hot meat and vegetables - roast pork, chicken and beef.  The fourth table was dessert, with jello, flan, bananas, oranges etc.  Of course I had the flan since it's one of my favourites.  So here are some photos:

This photo is for you Stephen Essex!  A lumber yard somewhere between Pisac and Ollyantaytambo, Peru!

This one is for Eric !  These taxi's are everywhere.  Three-wheeled.  Made with/from a Honda motorcycle.  Some of them get very fancy both with their paint jobs and with their accessories.

The Tunupa restaurant where we had lunch.  This was the first time I came across a real garden.  Of course, I was so excited about it that I took a ton of photos, whether the flowers were the same as at home, or not!

Our musical entertainment.  It was so nice to be able to see and hear musicians play music that I really like, in the country it came from.  Of course, after about 6 songs they came around table to table with cd's to sell, and a bag for tips if you didn't want to buy anything.  They had some pan flutes that were about 4 feet tall or long and gave a very deep sound. It was marvellous.

A poinsettia the size of a small tree (about 6-7 feet tall).  They don't get snow here, nor frost, so most things just keep growing.  There is a rainy season and a dry season.  I saw lots of geraniums and snapdragons, etc.

Poinsettia Tree