LLAMA LLAMA ROCKS

today we took a taxi from Cuzco 11km up to Tambo Machay - another Inka ruin. This time it was Inka baths. Again, the finest stonework with no mortar. Tambo Machay had a series of gullies and pools - where the Inka noble men would perform the physical as well as ritual cleansing.

Then we walked back to Cuzco past the other 3 Inka ruins. First one was Pucha Pucchara. An Inka hunting lodge. Looked a bit like European castle ruins - with the only difference it was again the Inka stonework

After more walking we got to Quenko. It was a VERy cool ruin. It consisted of a HUGE rock (oprobably like 20m long and 10m wide).

It was carved by the Inka´s as well as erosion. It was full of big holes - looked like a lace.

It had caves underneath, a small amfitheatre and also a place for ritual offerings.

There was a zig-zag carved in the rock. It was THE coolest part of the ruin.

Inka priests used to pur llama blood into the zig-zag. It woudl flow down, and lower: split in 2. Depending on through which of the 2 zig-zag endings the blookd woudl flow out of first, they predicted whether it would be a good year for crops or not. Of course I wanted to try checking that as well - and poiured my water into the zig zag. And (of course) it showed the negative omen. haha, lucky it was not the llama blood i was checking it with

Chris was laughing his ass off when i also lost both my water bottles while climbing the rock. Thye both (one by one) fell out of the outside pockets of my bacpkack and it was a bit of an excercise to find them back in one of the deep holes of the rock

the last ruin was Sachsaywhoman (oir something close to that, sorry cant remember the spelling) - in any case u pronouce it SEXY WOMAN . It was a huge ruin. 3 zigzags of rock walls, 20m high, paralelly runnig for 600m. The ricks there were bigger than any pother rocks we have seen in these ruins before - some 20m high and a good 4m wide. The heavist rock is supposed to weigh 300tons!
The ruin is even visible on Google Earth. It was very beatuful. And also, there was a great view on Cuzco from the hill

after walking all those 11km and climbing different rocks/ruins we are quite tired