My hotel is fairly basic but that's okay because that reflects the cost. The room is comfortable. Breakfast and WiFi are included.

It's the sort of hotel that has board games in a communal area for guests - homely. 

Looking for the tourist office I caught my first sight of Coricancha - this was the most important temple in the Incan empire but was largely destroyed by the Spanish who built their  Church and Convent of Santo Domingo on what remained of it. 

Some parts are still intact - in these photos that's the darker grey wall along the base. 

Having found the tourist office and bought a tourist pass it was now well past lunchtime, I decided the San Pedro Market was a likely place to find something to eat.

The market has a wide  variety of stalls including selling meals. I had some grilled alpaca meat, at least that's what it was sold as - it tasted like lamb which was very enjoyable.

Heading back towards Coricancha I came across the Calle Awaqpinta, an ancient Incan street.

These three holes in the Incan wall seem significant to me - see further comments below re the inside of the Coricancha.

To see more of the Coricancha I had to enter through the arch of the Convento de Santo Domingo.

Inside is a combination of Spanish construction and the original Inca work that it was built on top of.

In one Inca room are these three holes in the base of the wall - theories on their purpose range from the lurid "draining sacrificial blood" to the practical "draining rainwater" - I feel that they should correspond to the holes in the wall outside but couldn't find anything to confirm or contradict that.

In the evening the nearby streets are brightly lit.

On this Saturday evening the central square, the Plaza de Armas, is very lively.

At times lively verging on deafening.