:: el valle sagrado ::

woke up early. mixed up the time and got out of the house an hour earlier than what i should. since i didnt have the key i was basically locked out for an hour. so i decided to walk around. got to cafe de mama oli, but it was too early for it to be open. so i turned around and walked back.

after breakfast a new friend of us came pick us up to go to the valle sagrado.
since we had wanted to visit q'enko the day before we passed by before going to the valley.

this was a worship place. a certain stone is said to produce the shadow of a puma during some solstice. and u could find the huuuge rocks, carved with steps, and sitting places.

after q'enko we went to puca pukara. according to our guide it was a place for young nobles, kinda like a boarding school where they would learn the skills needed to govern the empire.

there are mooore pictures in the album, click the link at the bottom of the entry.
nways after visiting this site, which the guide also claimed, is full of energy and high vibrations; we left for tambomachay.

here in tambomachay we can find a fountain. some call it the fountain of eternal youth, cause the water has lots of iron and leaves your skin very soft

nways it was an important place where the inca would fast and meditate, there are little niches in the wall behind where it is thought they put their ancestors.
they used to think the ancestors who had died had gone to the lower world and rised up with messages and knowledge through the waters bringing messages and instructions to the ruler. nways that's the story we heard.

after that we went to pisac. its the most extense archeological site around there (i think its even bigger as in extension than machu picchu. of course its not as dense)