Weeks -3 and -2

As you already know, we spent the last two weeks visiting museums and Inca sites with our ‘boleto turístico’. Amongst the museums we visited were the ‘Museo histórico regional’, the ‘Choco museo’ and the ‘Museo de arte contemporáneo’.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

  

What we most enjoyed were the Inca sites. We first visited Qorikancha (which, in Quechua, means ‘golden temple’), in the centre of Cusco. This site used to be one of the most important temples in the Inca Empire and was dedicated, amongst others, to the sun, the moon and the rainbow. Its walls were once entirely covered with gold but when the Spaniards arrived, they rapidly took all of it away and started to build a church on top of the temple. What is visible now is the entire Spanish church and only some remains of the Inca temple. But even these few remains are enough to prove the immense architectural talent of the Incas.
 

 

 

 

 

 

 

After Qorikancha, we went to Pisaq, which is located at some thirty kilometers from Cusco. It took us more than two hours and a lot of sweat to visit this wonderful site surrounded by beautiful mountains.