Today was an aftermath of the Inca Trail so we didn’t feel like doing much besides bringing our clothes to the laundry as we didn’t have many clothes left. In Cusco, a lot of places side-hustle as laundries, so it was enough for us to bring our clothes to a small food market which also takes care of the laundry.
After that, we got curious and made a small stop in a Coca Museum. It was half museum half coca store but was nevertheless interesting. Many ancient sculptures had coca leaves in the subjects’ cheeks showing the importance and normalcy of coca in day-to-day lives. The later fusion of Andean and Christian cultures also produced such an exotic concept as Virgin of the coca.
Coca store has proven that you can make pretty much anything using or including coca: flour, beers, creams, chocolates, teas, and much much more.