Yesterday evening when I updated my blog I heard music and fire-crackers on the main-square just outside ... It was the local school ... each class performed a local peruvian dance ... and I can say ... they were sweating ... nice way to end a beautifull day ...
...today ...
A view of the mainstreet ...
Took a collectivo and then a taxi to see Moray ...
The inca's used this site to experiment with crops ... it consists of several terasses in circles one upon the other ... this create a bowl-shape . Each terrass has a different temperature and the sun does not shine identical on each side ... so different micro-climats ...
There are not one but tree of those bowls ..
They used stones in the wall to go up and down the terasses...
there is also less wind in the lower levels ...
and of course irregation is very important ...
here you can clearly see the steps ...
Left afterwards to go to another very special site today ... walking ... surrounded by high tops
with clouds this time ... hope they stay that side of the sacred valley ...
I lost my hat in a collectivo in Puno ... and I burn a bit my forehead in the sun in Cusco ... so I wear my ...
Don't forget it is spring here so lot of ...
...and beautifull plants ... a lot of the agave family ...
I wanted to go directly to that special place, but the road took me to the village of Maras ... and then further down ... I was on the right track until I took left too early ...
managed to go further via little tracks downhill and uphill ...
so I took the direction I gues the right ... but I was blocked ...
So I had to climb again to a certain level to have it easier ... and of course I came to a view where nobody comes ... and what a view ... the salineras ...
... going down and passes some salted spring ...
... nearly fell in it ....
and to the salt-terasses used since the inca-time ...
... there are over more then 4000 of those bassins ...
and of course the famous irrigations ...
The brown collor is because it rained this night ... if it is dry everything is white ...
(Laura je t'ai acheté quelque chose içi)
... and then down the valley ... and a last view from below ...
cross the suspended and moving bridge ...
over the Rio Urubamba ... which flows into the Amazone-river ...
at the other side of the bridge a nice restaurant-hostel ...where I ate a marvelous meal for just 36 sol (8 euro)
pisco-sour, frech made sort of nacho's with guacamole and grilled porc with delicious mashed vedgetabels
then a little walk to the big road and a collectivo back to Urubamba (2 sol) ... up to the hotel, shower, resting a little bit, updating my blog and ... time for dinner already ... pizza perhaps tonight ...
