Our hotel, Hotel Embassy (though no Spanish-speaker could understand 'embassy' when we pronounced it even though it´s an English word), was about 5 minutes driving or 30 minutes walking from the main part of town. The hotel had 2 pools, one overlooking the river and the other surrounded by palm trees, so I spent my mornings and afternoons tanning and reading by the pools. The hotel also had 3 restaurants, so we ate all of our meals there, and the highlight was a desert called chicarones, which is like a combination of doughnuts and funnel cake in honey. The hotel was really full, but I enjoyed it because there were plenty of people to talk to and practice my Spanish with. Most of the hotel guests were big families, so the friends we made were the young employees of the hotel, so needless to say we got very good treatment. One guy even taught me how to salsa then played his guitar and serenaded me with Spanish songs. 
Lunahuana also offered us a ton of outdoorsy activities. We went horseback riding up a mountain, rode ATVs along an Inca trail, and went white water rafting down the river right past our hotel. My favorite was definitely riding the quads because we stopped at a really interesting and really primative winery and because I rode in the back so I could stop for a minute and floor it to catch up to the rest of the group. Everywhere we went had incredible views, and I know my pictures won´t do any of them justice. I tried to buy postcards in town to better capture the scenery, but they didn´t even sell them, which I decided was probably because photographers don´t know what to take pictures of since everywhere you look you literally feel like you´re right in the middle of an amazing postcard.
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