for 130 soles or around 35 we can get into 16 different tourist sites around cusco
we are going to see how many places we can hit together and if this ticket is worth the price
today we're heading over to a ruin that is right next to our campground so it's
a nice little walk over it's called sex ai walmart which is a really funny name yeah it's
in quechua so they're not really saying that everybody that lived there was super hot
we actually walked by it before and we know that there are some llamas in there so we're excited
to see those buddies uh this ruin overlooks cusco so it's gonna be a really pretty view too
this unesco world heritage site had begun being built even before the incas each block is
perfectly made to fit so tightly not even a piece of paper could fit between them a fortress resting
above the enormous city that was dismantled when the spanish arrived for church building only the
rocks that were the biggest and the hardest to move are still left in the original site
ruin number two qenqo this ruin is pretty close to sex and woman and two more ruins
we're heading today it would be simple and pretty cheap to get a taxi to catch them all
sacrificing yeah that's where they sacrificed people or llamas well i said or human sacrifice
emily's my guide she's been reading the wikipedia
wow this is pretty unique oh are we going down that's where they would mummify important people
a really nice thing about all of these ruins is there's plenty of fields to just relax on
so we've been just sitting here enjoying the view if you wanted to have like a picnic up here that
would be so cute another part of qenqo is qenko chico and if you are if you're on a budget you
could just go to that one for free so that's kind of a nice part of this rune right here
so we decided to check out qenqo chico
this is the free one over here and well since it's free there's no guard so we brought the dog
so we just made it to the next archaeological site for the day puka pukara and yeah we're going
to wander around this one it looks really nice over up in the parking lot so i'm pretty excited
a room with a view you know just a ruin but a room with a view for me
number one researchers hypothesized pukapukara was a checkpoint along the road to keep
order allow a place for rest for travelers and military members look look at this thing
whoa that's pretty cool where are you going i think this is the end
not a bad little cave honestly yeah it's pretty cool i love caves
so the name is pukapukara which in quechua means red fortress
because the rocks contained a small amount of iron that made them red
tambomachay is an ancient inca resort
with hot springs and beautiful surroundings it's a perfect place to relax
this rune is a bit more fun than the others because instead of arrows shuffling people
down one path there are lesser known trails leading to other ruins on
our way to find these places we made a friend who wandered the fields with us
we lost the trail for a moment but as always the views made it worth it
that's a nest of something there must be like a bird huh
after hearing other travelers talking about heading out on hikes and stumbling upon ruins
i knew i needed to try out the same and this ruin is the best place to start wow this is so good
morning we're checking out pisac today
look at that that's amazing and i think the best advice we could give anyone going to pisaq is
park the first time you can
so here we are at the mirador of the pisaq ruins so it was a fair walk over here the main part of
the ruins is up on the hill but this just 360 views up here so they think pisaq was
defense place but could also hold a small city so these terraces right here are all for agriculture
it's a perfect place for a fortress because of the urubamba river that runs next to it
and between these mountains over here that is going straight to the amazon so
if they had people coming from the amazon or from the river they would be able to
notify cusco before anyone got close to the biggest ican city so to get here from cusco
we crossed that valley right behind us came down here and this whole valley going this way
that is urubamba river we basically follow that river all the way down to machu picchu from here
looking forward to showing you guys the sacred valley cusco
so
we made it to the ollantaytambo ruins before they close able to use our 16 attraction pass for this
as well this is where you take the train to machu picchu so we got rob in there in the
spot with us he said hey that's enough ruins for one day
we're just gluttons for runes here and this one is looking like a beaut i think he's going to have a
great view of the valley we just got to climb to the top before they close so we need to win it
so we made it to ollantaytambo just an hour before our entire ticket expired
after seeing so many ruins and now after being in ollantaytambo
i think it really shows the ingenuity of the architecture with the incas and also
how amazing they were at farming and irrigation
i have been hypothesizing that is why there is such biodiversity here with the fruits and
veggies just because the inca were so good at farming and cultivating new crops maybe it's
just the area that we're in out of these ruins we've wandered i've really enjoyed ollantaytambo
with water features and beautiful views i'd say not to miss this ruin
this ancient town is one of the oldest continuously occupied places in south america
sunken terraces were built by the inca to grow produce native to warmer climates
the sun warms the ground inside the terrace the wall blocks the wind so at night the plants stay
warmer than the outside temperature the views don't stop in ollantaytambo across the valley
there's a free road to check out this free rune was basically an inca grain silo being high atop
the hill and well ventilation preserve the food for the community during the time without crops
well we made it to six of these ruins and two free ones the ticket
also includes a couple of museums monuments four other ruins that we didn't make it too
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