Always going up....but not always on the right road.

The second day of our beautiful visit in Cusco we had planned to go visit an inca site, though this goal was accomplished, we had to change our plans due to a guide malfunction. The long and bumbpy bus ride may have been painful, but we actually got to see some of the most impressive views around the world. The montaneous regions are purely green and full of life, where there is actually hope that industrialism has not reached every corner of the world. One can see llamas, alpacas, pigs, donkeys, chickens and cows throughout the landscape. So after stopping totalk to a few locals we finally arrived at an archeological site where remnants of the Inca empire were still vissible. We had to walk up hill for about an hour to reach this place. The archaeological site was an ancient Inca palace. Some of the palace was original but some parts had been reconstructed to protect the site. We had the opportunity to walk all around the palace and we went to a room that was used for making beer out of maiz. In this room there were circular shaped holders that held the arivalos upright. The arivalos needed a holder for support because the bottom came to a point and they could not stand up by themselves. We were guided up to the site by a man who spoke Quechua, a very ancient language that is still spoken today by a small part of the population along with Aymara. Our tour guide played the flauta all the way up the mountain to the palace.