LLAMA LLAMA CUZCO

so (yet again) we had to get up early today and took a 6am taxi to the airport.
now we are in Cuzco - the "navel of the world" for the Inca´s and the their capital

our hotel is really nice

our first room:

our 2nd room:

We went to Koricancha (the Temple of the Sun) of the Inca´s.


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There used to be the huge sacred sun-disc made totally of gold. Also, all the chambers of the temple were "wall-papered" with gold, there were real-size figurined of humans, llama´s, plants - everything in small detail up to the tiniest pieces of the ground. No wonder none of that survived the Spaniard´s invasion. They only didnt take the sun-disc - and the legend says its still hidden somewhere in the mountaiuns.
The whole city of Cuzco was built by the spaniards on the foundations of the Inca stonework. The inca´s didnt use mortar - they onlyu could cut the huge blocks of stone to fit each other so closely that theìr buildings were very firm. The Spaniard´s built their buildings on top of these foundations, and most of them collapsed during the hige earthquake in the 1650. And the Inca foundations remianed intact.

We walked around the city later on.

Cuzco, Plaza de Armas:

Went to the artsy-district of San Blas as well, and wandered around the whole day

The famous 12-angle stone

now ate a huge dinner (again) and are off back to the hotel now