They're really really enthusiastic about getting people to join // Pisac is
really famous for this particular market. Sunday is definitely the star of this
market. Loving it, loving it come to Pisac. Right now we are actually
looking for a taxi that's gonna take us all the way up to the top of Pisac Ruins, so we can make
our way down. It is supposed to be one of the best-preserved Inca towns in the
Sacred Valley. It's a great day in Pisac so far. We've made it to (clear throat)
to the top of Pisac and for some reason my voice is going. I have no idea why - I
think it's a dry air, but we'll do them I'll do my best. So now our goal is to
just walk up the hill a little bit here, not too far of course, and then make our
way down and the driver told us how long did you say it would take us it's about
two and a half hours something like that and we're just gonna take our time
enjoying the day it is absolutely gorgeous from up here so they have a few
rules posted here you can't rise on the walls you're not allowed to light fire
no camping no smoking don't paint the walls don't urinate on the walls and
don't climb with ropes and don't take photos with your drone I guess when we
fly the drone we can only take video and no mascots. So a little bit of the
history of Pisac. It's thought that Pisac was built by the same person who
built Machu Picchu, that's Emperor Pachacuti. One thing that we do or we
they think they know about this place is that it only dates back to about 1440
because they have found nothing here that predates the Incas. One of the first
thing that we saw upon entrance is these terraces. When you drive up to Pisac
you see it way in a distance but it's just right behind me here. These terraces
were built about 600 years ago, brought all the stones and all the fertile
soil from the valley floor, all the way up here by hands and just so amazing how
you actually see something like this
This is pretty incredible these holes in the cliffs that you see behind me if you
look really closely at them you can see that some of them at least some
structures that maybe people lived in there were not peoples houses but those
are actually tomb that unfortunately been raided the long time ago and this
is supposed to be one of the biggest cemetery in this area it's quite a walk
up here anyway highest point in peace are coming up next me wish this
televator I know right I have a feeling those
fingers were alive today they'd have been bent at the elevator by now the
houses at the top of okay so we've been all the way to the top of Peace Hawk and
now we're gonna make the walk down and holla fast the guide how long it was
gonna take and the guide said it depends how you actually walk I guess how fast
you walk in other words he fudged he doesn't know it looks like we don't have
that far to go you can see tompa SEK from here so we always assumed to be
suckers actually at the bottom of the hill but it seems like we actually going
back up again and I assume that's gonna be a slide all the way down on the other
side find out if you do come to Peru and you're planning on seeing a lot of think
of stuff which is one of the main reasons you come here anyway you have to
be able to get used to the altitude and the big reason the Incas liked to build
things so high is because for for two reasons one places like pee sock which
were meant to protect places like cusco from invasions from the south much
easier to protect or defend from a higher position but probably the most
important reason that the ink is built so high is because the Incas worshipped
the Sun and they wanted to be as close to the Sun as possible speaking of Sun
when you come and view these Inca ruins you have to wear as much sunscreen as
possible and reapply which is what I probably should do right now
starts going down the slide step it's really steep yeah alright we're going to
just huddle is that gonna be dark oh it's not bad I can see the end of that
lease type and I don't want to shame anybody but if you're over a certain
size you're gonna have a tough time getting through that I'm pretty big guy
and that was a bit tight for me you got to kind of turn a bit sideways to get
through those older folks behind this might have a little bit fun with that
it's a bit of a challenging walk down but you know we could say it's boring
loving it loving it come to piece off it's amazing
Halas a little while ago they liked it better than Machu Picchu this is the
most intact Inca ruins here in the valley
I'm not sure we really just realize how far we've walked just look at that that
hill behind us that's a long way down tons of stairs
but now I think it's gradually descending I don't believe it did we see
some ink of village is down there but it looks like a steep walk to get down but
we've had fun so far yeah we can do it of course in the middle of nowhere we
just ran into this complex used to bend low village for the Incas maybe four or
five families live here and then they have the majestic view of the valley but
of course we're just guessing this could be like a place where they sacrifice
llamas one of things that I've noticed and I don't know if this is
architectural II write or not you can see the precision of this I've noticed
that even if you took this one out the ones above it wouldn't fall down because
they're still wedged above it's almost like every one of them is like a
keystone say an earthquake happened and this one got cracked and lost its
integrity the ones above it wouldn't be here it's a d-shaped building and this
is one of the most important building here in Pisa the reason for it is that
number one this is probably one of the only one that's completely have a d'
shape and then it's all curved on three sides and number two if you look closely
all of the stones is completely precisely cut almost no flaw matter how
hard you tried you couldn't get a piece of paper in between these things when
these were built the Incas had very very few metals and no metals that were
strong enough they had to figure out a way to grind this down to keep it as
precise as possible and really no one knows exactly how they
did it even like have liked it a little bit just like that
not enough to just make sure yes about the up in between so just we come out of
here we notice that this little irrigation system but we have no idea
where it's coming from on the entire way down we haven't seen anything like this
there's something built on the ground make a channel all the way down to great
like what a fountain at the end of this line
we've probably been doing this for well over an hour now and we're not even
close to the bottom there is so much behind me here we have a long way to go
before we get to the bottom so just to give you a little bit of perspective
just above the terraces there's some buildings that's what we started we
walked all the way up to the top of this massive L here we walked all the way
down did a little bit more up and down got through here do you sort of feel
like we're about halfway down and ha'la'tha is actually recording the
distance and it's just a little bit over a mile we've walked but it's been miles
of upstairs and downstairs and in nooks and crannies through tunnels yeah so
it's been pretty cool yeah hopefully it gives you a better perspective on what
we've done today come to peace ah it's amazing if you look at a map of Peru
we're up in the mountains but we're also in the middle of a desert when you just
look around at the plants here it's just amazing in the diversity of it all
everything from prickly pears to just various kind of cactus Telfair oh yeah
two things that step the Hall of Fame they have a while back there was a point
that's kind of prickly that just was waving around instead oh it's definitely
you're in a desert but it's it's not a death
and unlike national parks in Canada in the United States they don't take
precautions with rails so if Haleh wants to be a little careless he's going down
the side of the mountain we continue on
we're getting a lot closer to how we're almost at the peace talks this is where
we're gonna be ending up a little later today we are about to be overrun by
schoolchildren halluf means we better speed up we're gonna let them pass the
serenity of our Mountain afternoon shattered I'm not sure if in Canada or
America parents would give the teachers permission for their children to come on
hikes like this but it's kind of dangerous so either that coliform means
that kids here are probably more mature than American and Canadian kids of
course they are you don't mind that it looks creepy to me don't take an Bridge
mood it's designed to move it can have a silt bridge so we are surrounded by
these terraces with the just like a stonework is
amazing the majority of these terraces have this kind of like steps so you
don't have to go around to go up to the next level we're not supposed to climb I
need rock but this is what it is I have to admit I don't understand this at all
because the effort to move even one of those stones from somewhere way down
there or even even summer up here and build these walls is just almost
impossible to believe that that can happen so this is the end of our day at
Inca peace Ock yeah we made it a solid piece Ock and it
took us over two hours from the top Joe ok comparison Machu Picchu
I think machu picchu in the landscape is much better it's more exotic more known
for but I would say the ruins itself I like this much much better and it was a
better day because a walk kids coming by a little windier a little cooler
side all those heat not pretty good now and it didn't cost 500 yes it's
definitely cheaper and then you know if you get the bloody hitters to go yeah
yeah because I counted 30 so less but you get 16 of these things yeah so about
forty forty two dollars each we had amazing time at peace out today I
couldn't have asked for better we just kept our collective oh here it'd be suck
in about 40 minute drive to our place as soon as they get this we fill up we'll
be on our way one of these two things that happen on
the way out was on the way after the colectivo was that we saw a massive fire
on top of the mountain well a massive amount of smoke anyway so we're hoping
that that doesn't get down to the town because it will destroy this town but
according to the driver kind of happens all the time so which is a little bit
sad because it seems like just some farmers cleaning up laying around here
the landscape is being destroyed and we are still doing it yep anyway that's it
from piece on and thanks for watching
okay we are in okay with Jesus okay I've got a little bit of a frog in my throat
so no I'm more worried about my camel I mean I mean I mean boo be dead
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