I am sorry to tell you this – but for the most part, this is going to be a boring post.  It is nothing against the Ruins of Pisaq, really – they were amazing and the town was quaint and came with the appropriate amount of South American dogs (aka the street cleaners)…

And I always love a good market (Teen picked up a, if not cool, completely “Peru appropriate” hat)…

However, I have to say the most memorable thing in Pisaq was Marco.  Marco, is apparently the man in Pisaq, who “makes things happen.”  For us – well he made the best Empanades in all of Peru happen.  Marco is kind of a mystery, though.  All we know is that whenever there was a question on cooking, pricing, firing, ingredients, materials, you name it – in the little back-of-the-building Empanada quiosk – the workers would yell to the front of the shop for “MARCO!”.  Marco would come, as if out of thin air, do…something…to make all well and disappear as quickly as he arrived.  All I know is, I have never had empanades quite like these before, and fear I never will again.

Don’t get me wrong,  the ruins were beautiful – with perfectly formed terraces…

Tucked inside walls of mountains…

To the halfway point…

And continuing up…

To see the amazing views from above.

All of which I feel sure…Marco somehow had a hand in.

 

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