Cuzco is a smaller more local village collective of a city than LIMA. Meaning most who want to live in a city in mountain region and who don't have the money to go to LIMA would move to Cuzco. It's definitely more manageable to get around then in LIMA and has more of the traditional Peruvian character to the city. When I say manageable I mean walkable and if need be taxi or public transport whereas in LIMA it's a huge city and is divided into different city sections. LIMA also being pack with motorized vehicles that traveling in that way could take a while and walking takes a while too because of how spread out everything is along with traffic flow both on the sidewalk and roadways. As I was saying in the LIMA section before about animals, well here in Cuzco there might be more than just cats and dogs that one might see. Another possibly is pig, chicken, Alpaca, and sheep (goat), but mostly throughout the city it will be lose dogs roaming around. The animals as roaming and lose as they are about the city the are well behaved and mannered. The biggest thing about Cuzco is food and restaurants. Than there are shops, vendor booths, and markets. Throughout the one square of the city (section with two churches in a plaza near Plaza San Francis) there are nice and high end looking restaurants which are all really good and fairly priced spread all throughout even in the parallel and adjacent streets off the plaza. There is some of variety of places like Italian, Irish Pub, Peruvian, sandwich & soup place, and cafe style places. So there is always something and a new place to try every time. Just like home they have Happy Hour every night to get people to come in. The food and edible stuff one will want to stay away from is street vendors with food, especially the ones that grill on the street. Also sandwiches for the most part that will have mayo and depending somethings from the San Pedro market which is the locally grown and managed vegetables and meat.
The shopping places mix from: grocery, street markets, street vendors, high end/ nice jewelry, high end Alpaca products to more lower priced product shops, street booth vendors, instrument shops, and the list goes on. But for the most part ever place you go to in Peru for souvenirs will have the same thing. Within Cuzco there are just so many places and great things to check out. Of course for club or party goers there are a decent amount and looking clubs and bars to enjoy. Of course there are a lot of hotels too, ranging from two star to five star hotels. Regardless of stars they are all stay able and nice, don't need the nicest looking one. One of the most exciting and best things to wittness to also be apart of is when a country does their traditional holiday and festivity celebrations the same time one is there for it. I was able to and check out what it was like both during the day and the night of one day of the week celebrating. It was interesting seeing the social difference from home to here in Peru. That being from a social stand point, economic stand point, status (occupation) stand points, and daily living value stand point. They were not too different then back home in some respects; although I can say police in Peru don't look for drunk people to ticket like our police back home do.
Even if one does not want to travel far from Cuzco, but want to get out of the city for a while like a day trip there are sites and things to do outside the city too. Everyday is different and interesting even after two weeks in being in the same place.
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