and again a day in Cusco... see the Inca leftovers... 8. Day

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8. Day and again a lot we gonna do... this time we gonna drive around Cusco and watch villages, and Inca leftovers... to be true... Cusco and the area around is or better was an Inca village or town.. There are so many leftovers of different kinds, that it feels more or lesson like one place... but then we we also drove to other villages and got some beautiful outlooks and where on a famous market place... 
The guide will maybe tell you he drives you to "the holy valley of the Incas", when it's about the tour around Cusco, but most leftovers are not to find in a valley, you find them on the hills... 
So....
First we started with the ruins of Sacsayhuaman............

dow there is Cusco

just one of those stones can be 5 meter tall and all is made by hand

of course a dog is hiding in the pictire

Cusco

Then we took a walk to a place made inside stones, which was for celebration of the dead and a moon calendar in one...It is believed so... At the entrance there where reliefs of a gondor, a snake and a panther... also you could see kind of a door and a place to lay flowers and other things on for the gods...

Then we went up a hill to see how the place look where the priest was sitting in the morning, when the sun rises, to greet them and to celebrate the sun and the power of gods...

the #sun bank#

But believe me, if you expect getting some  or even bigger spiritually experiences or that you would feel something powerful when you touch the stones or stand on the places... no my dear... you won't... these stones are old and all is hidden somewhere deep inside... Nothing to feel ... just as stones feel like... everywhere you knew it...
But you get insight of how much they did and wonder why they had (the Incas) a very good road network but did not invent the wheel... Instead they had relay runners... who run three kilometers and then gave what they had to give to the next relay runner... so we saw a place, called the home of such relay runners....

Then it went on to Pisac and on our way we also stopped by at a place made for tourist to see the difference of a Lama, Alpaca and so on...

like painted like a giraffe.. 

In Pisac they is the famous market, which is an Indio market and so tourists are always welcome to find something there to take home.. actually the prices are good and not too expensive... And for those who are vegetarian, they is an option to get a vegetarian meal too... 
And then again those women in traditional clothes... you can make a pic of them, if you give them a Dollar and often they have a kid by the side or a little lam ... or baby alpaca.. the animal welfare would be on the top here in ol' Europe if we did take those little lams with us on market places to be touched and pushed around... 

the market is down there and it's this white stripe you see

look up..optional vegetarian food!

So this extra Tour makes sense in every way, not only because you could be bored in Cusco.. if you stay there alone... ;-)
But before we drove back, we took a turn into a restaurant- a real restaurant of the natives...
To eat what...? Guinea pig. It tasted good, kind of a mix of a chicken and rabbit.. kind of...and did not felt heavy in stomach. And the best thing is... it's original and cheaper then in town...!

By the villages we passed have a normal name each but the natives gave them another one to make it easier... cos a lot have not much education in the back... so one is called the pig village, the other the chicken, the shaman and then another the garbage village... Why is this so? It's because the have specialized over the years and the names just tell you in what.... 
What else more to tell? We saw market places along the streets.... for the native, not made for the tourist.... that was interesting to see... we saw a lot eucalyptus farming... and never to oversee the big yellow and blue advertising of the Inca Cola.. which taste like chewing gum with a lot of sugar... :-) Not my thing... but those Inca yellow is to find on a lot of adobes... 
And of course we see a big big Jesus on several places and the Jesus from Cusco seems to float when it's dark, the light which shines on him is bit green and around him is no single light.. so it really seems he comes down, flying, floating to us.... Our guide said the Jesus is a gift from portuguese... some came in world war the second to find a place to hide and so... the children or them self gave this back as a sign of gratefulness.... Don't know if this story is true.... didn't found anything about it yet... 

that is a wood today... like in Europe..made...

Eucalyptus 

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