Peru and Ecuador 2026
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2026-06-08
Today the group explored Cusco a little. However, I went out first on my own.
While out, I encountered a very strange intersection—see “Strange intersection”
below.
The group visited The Temple
of the Sun. In the evening, I found two more chocolate stores, walked
through San Pedro Market, and sampled the local churros. The market has all
sorts of things: cheese, bread, meats, spices, nuts, produce, other groceries,
clothing, tourist trinkets, food stands or counters, and packaged goods. The
churros were quite crunchy.
I did not see many beggars or apparently unhoused people on this trip. There are
plenty of street hawkers in tourist areas, but they are not too aggressive.
Eventually, I figured out this is some traffic engineer’s idea of a solution to
getting more use out of the streets, which are very crowded. Since the road
south from the intersection is one-way, no north-bound traffic comes from it.
So, when southbound traffic on the north road has a green light, it can use all
the lanes. (And there is no right-on-red for the traffic coming to the
intersection from the east.) When that light is red, traffic coming from the
east can turn north, so the southbound vehicles should have vacated that lane.
The same lane is used for alternating north and south traffic, according to
the traffic light. If you are going south with a green light, you can move
into the left lane. But you better make the light, or you will be blocking
northbound traffic. Which is what we saw in the first photo.
© Copyright 2026 by
Eric Postpischil.
