excursions

Naturally several excursion were done to the wildest places. For that we hired a four wheel drive.
Roads were under construction, something no one had thought of telling us.
Result: we jolted and wobbled and shaked the many many miles, with parts of road fallen out or not even excisting. However, we did it.
Maras
The village of Maras was closest, situated on top of the mountain pass between Cuzco and Urubamba. No one there. A mystical old church.
Ollantaytambo
Old Inca route. On the road from Urubamba to Mach Pichu, at the end of Urubamba valley at 2792 m.
Incredible and exhausting trip. The road unfinished, the gravel fist size.
Abandoned ancient fortress from where the Inca used to attack Francisco Pizarro.
Ancient ruins. On the way we passed very high and one of the staff swam in the wild, wild icy river. On the way back we found a strange stone big as a truck.
On it was carved a whole city. No one was there.
Paucartambo
Fantastic trek. Dreadful place, a cross road.
When the hotel owner opened up the room we were to rent, at least five big rats
ran off. After five hours of dangerous drive we could not return in the dark.
Slept along the roadside, on a row, under a long plastic sheet we happened to have in the car.
Titicaca.
Magnificent trip.
We passed Aqua Calientes, sat in that very river, burned one leg and froze on the other
where an icy stream and a hot one joined.
At the Titicaca lake, we were offered a boat out to one of the many floating islands.
That we did. Not very interesting.
On the way back we came to be in one of the worst thunder weathers ever experienced.
Thought we would be wrecked and perish in the wild waves, but we survived.
Sachsahuaman.
'The ancient Cuzco', so say the Quetchua people.
Today called an old fortress. However, no one seems to know what really it is.
It is very, very special and impressive,
the stones seem to have been oozed and collapsed together like dough.
It is immense. No description.