ridding in the outskirts

after a nigth's rest, we wake early and decide to have a walk around cusco. (or cuzco, its spelled both ways as far as i know of)
supposedly sacsayhuaman is at a walking distance. so we walk towards it. we arrive at a stable. the guy there convinces us (i have no clue in what tense im writting this blog, jaja so f it, i'll just keep going in whatever tense i was)
nways the guy convinced us to rent horses so here we are... ridding around cusco towards sacsayhuaman.


we got there but didn't stop. we went ahead to some x zone. a place with many tunels through the rocks and openings and little caverns. interesting. we went through some. and then i tried going through another but... the end was too deep and i had no clue where it went.


nways from there we went to the temple of the moon. there's not much left or much to see as in other places. but its nice. there is a very deep cut between a rock/mountain. and little worship places in between.
from there on it was getting late so we rode back to sacsayhuaman.

At sacsayhuaman we were required tickets to enter the place. 2 of our companions decided to sneak themselves in. the other 2 of us bought the tickets (we were still gonna need them anyways, for the other sites in cusco)


After buying the tickets we got a guide and visited the place. sacsayhuaman is supossed to be a bigger temple, built after the koricancha became too small for the inca people. they used to say it was a fortress but it wasn't. it was used as one when the inca's defended themselves against the spanish but that was not its intention. it also has a zig zag shape, something to do with the lightning. and from the top u can look down towards cusco


on the other side there is a quarry from where i guess most of the rocks came from. and there is a curious rock with the shape of a slide, and very very polished. click on the link at the bottom to view the entire photo album and see pics of us slidding down the rock


The guide told us that this was sort of an artificial lake made by the incas. well it kinda makes sense looks like it somehow. i still dun know where the water came from




it was getting late, with some nice shadows so we decided to start our way back. no more horses. in cusco we passed by El Café de Mama Oli, a veeeeeee e e e e ry nice place. very kind lady. and good stuff in there.



if u wanna see the album for today

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