A new day, a new ruins site. In Peru, especially in the Cusco area, they are big fans of selling four sites/museums/churches under one ticket, and the previous day’s ruins–gallivanting had ticked off but two on our four-site ticket. We hired another taxi for the day to take us to Pisac, an hour from Cusco, so we could explore more ruins, more terraces, and tick another ruins site off the list. The first thing you are told when you get to Pisac by the guides and greeters is that Pisac is much bigger than Machu Picchu, suggesting Pisac’s superiority. It was pretty neat.
An important rock due to its shape as the nutritionally important cuy, or guinea pig.
Important militarily, Pisac was the gateway between the Amazon Jungle to the east and the Sacred Valley
Our guide showing us “Inca shampoo” acquired by rubbing a path-side plant with a little water, producing a surprising amount of suds.
A whole hillside pockmarked with looted Incan tombs. A few white bits could be discerned, which our guide said were bones, and there was indeed a spherical white bit that looked skull-ish. The Incas were buried in these tombs in the fetal position on the other side of a gorge, facing Pisac, this so that the Incas could communicate with those who had passed, the echo of singing and music thought to be the ancestors response. Then our guide pulled out a flute he had whittled himself from llama bone and demonstrated the effect as we continued walking.
Many stones, no mortar.
Holding our recently purchased moon-rocks, taking away all our bad energy.
Heading to the last part of the site which includes the Sun Temple.
Facing Machu Picchu another 50 miles further down the Sacred Valley.
Pisac
Pisac town
Late lunch views
Late lunch views
Stall set-up is a full-family affair
Sun setting over the Sacred Valley
Back in Cusco, we got some festive New Year’s gear (lots of yellow) and street meats.
Plaza de Armas
Tourist with her 2016 goggles posing with Quechua musicians.
There were a ton of fireworks, professional and otherwise.
Click here for a glimpse of our night of a thousand fireworks.
Happy New Year!
This Framerican Life 
Film vivant ! Bravo ! Cela nous a permis de vivre un peu votre passage à la nouvelle année.
Par contre, on ne peut pas dire que le chapeau t’aille très bien mon Juju !
Le site de Pisac est magnifique et nettement plus grand que le Machu Pichu. Ce qui étonne, c’est le fait que ça a l’air très entretenu : ce sont les lamas qui tondent la pelouse ou les hommes ?
Bises.
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Merci ! Je ne sortirai le chapeau que pour les grandes occasions, promis. Pisac est un site impressionnant par sa grandeur et sa construction au milieu des pentes rocailleuses. Les terraces ont été utilisées pour les cultures jusqu’à très récemment, et ont été stoppées il y a quelques années pour préserver leur structure et permettre à la terre de se régénérer. Nous n’avons pas vu de lamas pour tondre la pelouse, mais peut être qu’ils étaient cachés derrière la montagne.
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