day 13 - Cusco part 1

As the weather is nice ... I went to visit some ruins in the region of Cusco ...
The city of Cusco is build upon the ruins of the Inca-city ...

The main square ...

With it's cathedral

... nice arcades ... still with some inca-basements ...

... and wooden balcony ...

I took a collectivo to the temple who is the most highest : Tambomachay... this site was used for ritual bathing ...

... on the way to the main road ...

... and don't forert it is early spring over here ...

... from here i went on foot ... to the next one Pukapukara (the red fort) just on the other side of the road ...

which is a kind of lodging but I thimk there where also some rituals ...

some pics

then went for a big walk ... a few kilometers further down the road I saw a ruin not indicated on my maps ...

I think there are just excavated ...

and above in the rocks ...

I didn't wanted to go back to the road and make a detour, so I went directly in the direction I wanted to go ... and had a view on the main temple of Saqsayhuaman ( to pronounce sexywoman) ...

... but it took me over two hours to get there ... I visited first another little bathing-construction nearby

and then down to the main temple ... the weather was becomming a little bit clouded ...

and then  Saqsayhuaman ... amphitheater

and a few hundred meters further ... a view on the famous three walls ...

down the stairs ...

for a few looks on those walls ... representing teeths of a puma

up to the first level ...

look at the stonework ...

even the stones in the corners are rounded ...

up to the highest level ...

to see the temple still beeing excavated ...

and a view on Cusco ...

down to the lower level ...

and to the next temple ... Q'enqo