Our taxi driver from the bus terminal was going to charge us 15s (~$5) and we were ok with that price since we had no idea of getting to our hostel.

 As we were exiting this crazy roundabout outside of the bus terminal, our driver ran over an uncovered storm drain and his right wheel went into the hole. I was sitting in the passenger seat. The taxi driver told us to get out and stand in the island, I don’t know why he told us to stand there when we could have stood in the middle of the roundabout. Needless to say, some locals stopped their cars, got out and helped him move his tire out of the hole, the tire was flat and the taxi driver left us. So we crossed the roundabout to go to the center in hopes that the driver would come back. He didn’t. He totally left us. Then we crossed the roundabout to get to the side street when it wasn’t as busy. I managed to flag a taxi down but he didn’t know where our hostel was. I flagged a 2nd taxi a minute later and this time the man knew where the hostel was and he was only going to charge us 6s (~$2)! If the 1st taxi hadn’t driven into the hole, we would’ve gotten ripped off! Well, guess that’s what he gets for trying to rip us off!

We got to our hostel, checked in and knocked out! Or at least Lu and Katriz knocked out. I went downstairs to pick up our train and Machu Picchu tickets and to book a taxi to the train station. We would be leaving the next day at 6am and wanted to sort that out asap. We slept for 3 hours and woke up in time for dinner. We were all feeling the altitude and it was getting us headaches. For dinner Lu got pesto pasta with chicken with passion fruit juice, Katriz got aji de gallina with papaya juice and I got pasta with chicken and passion fruit juice. All were worth about $7. Lu and I managed to eat a bit.
After dinner we went in search of altitude sickness medicine and snacks for the train ride. Lucky for us there was a pharmacy next door. The man couldn’t speak a lot of English so he had me type our symptoms into google translate to which he knew exactly what we needed. There was some language barrier that resulted in body language regarding how many pills we wanted each. He was originally going to give us 2 each but we wanted 6 each. In the end we did get 6 each with me getting only 5 because he ran out. These pills were 50mg so they weren’t too strong.
After the pharmacy we went in search of a local mart but were unsuccessful. Seems as if Peru doesn’t have these local marts. We couldn’t find them in Lima and we couldn’t find any in Cusco. So we went back to the hostel where I had to call my bank to have my debit card unrestricted. This was all my fault, I had forgotten to let my bank know that I was traveling. Lucky for me Charles Schwab has great customer service. I was able to get a hold of a representative, had them un-restrict my debit card and waited on the line while I withdrew money in case I got declined. I was able to withdraw money so that was nice. One of the workers in the hostel had to help me dial 4 times in 4 different ways before the call went through. So far everyone’s been pretty helpful.

Went back to our 12 bedroom dorm where we showered, re-packed and then went to check out. Why check out on the day we checked in? Our train was leaving at 740am the next day which meant we had to get a taxi at 6am which meant we would have to check out before that. So instead of having to wake up super early to pack and check out, we just did it before we went to bed. Which is the much better idea. After checking out, paying and putting our big backpacks in storage, we grabbed some tea and went to the restaurant part of the hostel and chilled. The downside of Pariwana Cusco is the Wifi. You can only connect to the Wifi on the patio and lounge areas. We stayed there until we were all caught up with whatever we all needed to do online then went to sleep. Cusco is freezing at night!