sondor: each terrace was a diff crop, of ascending importance/holiness, grown exclusively for ritual and/or aristocratic consumption (poor folk ate from the sorrounding valleys).
sondor: each terrace was a diff crop, of ascending importance/holiness, grown exclusively for ritual and/or aristocratic consumption (poor folk ate from the sorrounding valleys).
andahuaylas: sondor ruins (HQ of the chankas)
i <3 geeky miniatures
pisac: cliffsidetombtown
pisac: andrew is the tiny fleck in the middle of rad hillyhiketown
pisac: cloudshadowtown
pisac: menacingrampanttown
pisac: windowtown
pisac: terrace town
qorikancha is quechua for “hey, i’ve got an idea, why don’t you knock over the most important virgin/moon temple in our empire and replace it with a monastery full of psychotic carmelites!” there’s a museum of relics and mummies dug up from the site UNDERGROUND, a church full of contemporary local paintings on the ground floor, and on the top floor, a contemporary residence space currently occupied by a bilingual, revisionist dude! architectural irony to the max
macchu picchu: main site, and jackknife road that costs US$14 to traverse roundtrip (remind me to overthrow this scummy probusiness APRA bullshit of a government)
yeah those are real mummies
ollantaytambo: OG terracing on mega scale
macchu picchu. the big mountain in the background is wayna picchu, from wihch we took most of our photos.
ollantaytambo: groundskeeper guille watering the ruins
