Hola Cusco
Cusco is a beautiful little town, with an ornate cathedral and several other equally impressive churches. Here they are.
Yellow is the color of the New Year in Peru. It signifies good luck in the upcoming year. In the days before New Year's Eve, clothing shops and stalls in the mercado were hawking all manner of yellow underwear (green for money and red for love are also sold, but yellow is most common). I'm so happy I found out about this little tradition before arriving, otherwise it would have been really weird to walk past shop after random shop, all selling inordinate amounts of yellow underwear. Think about it. If you saw that and didn't know what was happening, you might not even be able to put your finger on it, you'd just feel that something odd was going on.
La Compania church (above)
The cathedral -- these massive doors were open on New Year's Eve, which was fairly impressive.
Yellow is the color of the New Year in Peru. It signifies good luck in the upcoming year. In the days before New Year's Eve, clothing shops and stalls in the mercado were hawking all manner of yellow underwear (green for money and red for love are also sold, but yellow is most common). I'm so happy I found out about this little tradition before arriving, otherwise it would have been really weird to walk past shop after random shop, all selling inordinate amounts of yellow underwear. Think about it. If you saw that and didn't know what was happening, you might not even be able to put your finger on it, you'd just feel that something odd was going on.
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