CUSCO
INFORMATION
ABOUT CUSCO
During Inca time, Cusco was a sacred city of temples and palaces laid out in the shape of a crouching puma. The Puma’s head was the Sacsayhuaman fortress and the body was the city.
CUSCO CITY TOUR
Cusco city tour: The Cathedral and the Plaza de Armas, the Koricancha temple and the nearby Inca ruins. The graceful main square, Plaza de Armas, is lined with colonial-style covered walkway ...
BARRIO SAN BLAS
About San Blas: Proud of its Inca and colonial heritage, San Blas still displays vestiges of the farming terraces made of huge stone blocks. These are best seen today on Tandapata Street, the ...
THE SACRED VALLEY TOUR
There are multiple places of interest in the Urubamba Sacred valley, making at minimum a full day and at best two full days (properly distributed over the correct days of the week) well worth spending. It is ...
MACHU PICCHU UNANSWERED QUESTIONS AND THEORIES
Machu Picchu lies at the heart of imposing peaks covered with luxuriant vegetation. It was built sometime in the last third of the 15th century by the Incas...
THE MYTH OF THE INCA ORIGINS AND THE INCA RUINS IN PACCARIQTAMBO
The Inca, as many other cultures around the world, were a class-dominated, hierarchical civilization. People were born...
SOME PRACTICAL INFORMATION ABOUT VISITING MACHU PICCHU RUINS
With the right information, getting to Machu Picchu shouldn’t be as much a mystery as the place itself. You’ll have to take a train from ...
