In the morning we moved from the hostel in the city center to the hotel further away. Immediately it was a fun experience as we escaped tourist traps and entered the streets full of local people. We were treated to the cheapest lunch of our trip costing 5 soles (1.1 euro) for a soup, main meal and a drink, although it’s a small win as the city is full of 6 soles deals 😋.
When we entered streets full of barbershops I understood that it may be a good time to fix the mess on my head. Although again there were 5 soles deals for cutting hair, as a spoiled tourist, I decided to try to go for at least twice as expensive haircut 🤑. The experience had its small differences from Lithuania. Instead of the hairdresser going around me when cutting here he was instead spinning the chair all the time, so you rarely are facing the mirror doing the process 😵💫. He was also speaking super fast Spanish that was in times difficult for me to understand so I just decided to say si to everything he asked.
As the weather was getting cold in the evening and we knew we have more plans in the mountains in the upcoming weeks we decided to upgrade our wardrobe with alpaca ornamented sweaters. We spent the remaining evening walking around the city and admiring everything from the old Inca ruins to untidy local shops and restaurants. We decided to finally take some food from one of the pollerias (chicken restaurants) which are on every single corner of the city.
When we returned to the hotel the life was in full swing behind our windows. Music was going full blast as the family from children to grandparents were playing football in the street ⚽️.