NGSI symbol in Cusco
Tambo Machay with the forever young waters...above Cusco.
Red at Tambo Machay. Sacred water must not taste so good.
Source of eternal youth at Tambo Machay....the source of the spring is still "unknown" but is suspected to be behind the main wall.
The crowd for the Warachicuy festival at Sacsayhuaman
During the Warachicuy festival at Sacsayhuaman. Megolithic stones in the 100+ ton range were cut to perfection to make the ramparts.
Students raise a giant flag during the Warachicuy festival at Sacsayhuaman.
Parents lining the hill side watching their children re-create the Inca pageant/play/faire at Sacsayhuaman during the Warachicuy festival at Sacsayhuaman.
"Condors" on the side of the hill during the Sacsayhuaman pageant/inca recreation. during the Warachicuy festival at Sacsayhuaman.
Red and giant snake at the Sacsayhuaman pageant/inca/student recereation during the Warachicuy festival at Sacsayhuaman.
Megolithic structures, condors on the hill side, green incas, student pageant at Sacsayhuaman. during the Warachicuy festival at Sacsayhuaman.
Parents on the left hills, Alpacas all around, a giant snake. Controlled chaos behind the scenes during the Warachicuy festival at Sacsayhuaman
Young Incas prepare to run the Inca Flag up the ramparts during the Warachicuy festival at Sacsayhuaman
Sacsayhuaman, during the Warachicuy festival.
Procession at Cusco central plaza de armas.
Cusco's cathedral on the Plaza de Armas
Steph and the Plaza de Armas in Cusco. Peruvian and Inca flag flying
Red and Cusco's Plaza de Armas with Peru's flag and the inca flag in the background.
Red in front of Plaza de Armas and smaller cathedral.
Inca built alley with the slanted walls. This is the alley with the "smallest stone"
This is the alley with the "smallest stone"....well-touched and worn.
Hill above Peru. The school children mark up the hill side with school pride.
Dominican temple builton top of the cut stone walls of the Coricancha in Cusco.
The interior (blasted through by the Spanish) of a wall in the Coricancha. Fitted on 5 of 6 sides, how did they build this with such tight tolerances. (Cusco)
Hanger stone in the Coricancha. Supposedly used to hange a solid gold piece. Entirely carved out of stone. (Cusco)
The outer wall of the Coricancha (cut stone, Cusco) that the Dominicans toppled and then built upon. The joke is that the Cori Concha is at the genitals of the puma and the Dominican's built a temple there.
Professor Rick watches as Ruben explains some of the features of the outer wall of the Coricancha (Cusco)
To make the outer wall mate with the Concha inner structure the angle flip flops gradually (show with this scant view). Coricancha, Cusco.
Channeled stone in the Coricancha, Cusco
When a corner of a solid stone wall chips, fix it with a peg. Coricancha, Cusco
The trapezoidal windows of 3 walls align perfectly. Coricancha, Cusco
Dominican arched hallway is completed on the left by the original Coricancha wall. (Cusco)
Main cathedral at Plaza de Armas in Cusco
Plaza de Armas in Cusco.
Inca symbol for the snake on a steel utility cover in Cusco.