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| Still hiding from the sexy woman. |
A few years back, some friends and I found cheap tickets to Peru and booked a night at Loki Hostel, a hostel with a wild reputation that isn’t unfounded. For four bucks a
night, we were willing to put up with quite a bit. On the way to Loki, our cab driver asked us what we were
going to be doing. We told him about the hike and the three unplanned days
before it. “You want to see sexy woman?” he asked in his stilted English. Obviously he knew about Loki’s reputation and assumed we shared the promiscuous disposition of its usual boarders. Over our vigorous protests, he told us he’d get us tickets. “You see sexy woman. You see sexy woman," he said. A knot
formed in my stomach. As it turned out,
Sacsayhuamán—not “sexy woman”—is the ruin
of a massive Incan temple just outside Cusco. The complex was the site
of the last stand between Incan warriors and their European invaders in
the 15th century. Guess we didn’t seem that wild after all.
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