Thursday, November 19

day 06 - Tombs & Ruins of Coporaque - ruins of Uyo Uyo

Went for a long walk in the morning to the village of Coporaque nearby ...  first passed by the chuch of Yanque

One of the dog of the hotel followed me for a long time to the village Coporaque (1 hour 30 walk)...


we went over the Colca-river



To the next mirador where I saw Inca-terracces still used by the people today ... they where masters in irregation




View from Coporaque to Yanque

and view up the hill where the tombs are ...


After an intensive climb ... to have the same amount of 1 breathtake in Belgium you need to breath 3 times over here ...








even a big tomb with a whole skeleton in its original position ... I did make some offers of real coca-leaves ... you never know !


Below the tombs are the ruins of an old village ...


On the way down ...


Have to climb over some stone walls before I got to the road though...
Back to the hotel to fetch some sleep and at 3pm a car with 35 loudly peruvians came to the hotel. As in the price of the room a little visit was included I got with all those people in their bus (with some other tourists) and went to the pre-inca ruins of Uyo Uyo... some pics... the main sacral house was rebuild ...




The little house of the current guardian ...

some irrigation-structures

On the way back we stopped at a natural spring for bathing 35degrees  ...it would have been very nice ...without 35 loudly peruvians. I have a pic, but as it was night the quality is not so good ...