After our best bus trip so far, we arrived the ancient Inca city of Cusco 3 days ago. The main plaza as you can imagine is filled with toursit restuarants and tour agencies, but surrounding all this is a beautiful city of cobblestone streets, archways, old churches, and Inca architecture. Inca stonework remains perfectly in tact in street walls and buildings including the Iglesia de Santa Domingo church. Back in the 158th century, the Spanish conquistadors tore down structures that were lined with gold and then rebuilt parts. The excellence and finery of the Inca stoneworks is evdidently far superior with perfectly straight lines and very thin limestone bindings.
Yesterday we had a full day of visting Inca sites around Cusco, including Pîsaq (citadels perched high over the villages), Moray (circular terrace experiments in farming), Salineas (the natural salt terraces of the Incas), an Chincero (huge ruins in perfect condition).
We head off on the Inca trail tommorrow...will write more on this post later as i have to get soe things together.
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