June 26 - Trip to Pisac Sunday market, Piquillacta, and Tipon

On the road to Pisac, a local Sunday market which has become a Mecca for tourists.

This is the kind of photo that our paparazzi cannot resist. It reads, "Forbidden to throw trash".

The Sacred Valley of the Incas, the Urubamba Valley where Pisac is located. The usually green hills are brown in the Peruvian winter.

The bread was great.

This is a guinea pig high rise designed to keep them at hand for a quick meal. Yum!

Local costumes on sale in the market as well as dyes used by local weavers. Also below different kinds of corn and carrots.

The market.

Casiques lined up for a photo.

Nice hat! Her friend also wanted to get into the photo.

Heavy load of sugar cane.

Church built high above the road on an old Inca and pre Inca  pilgrimage site. This church is also a  Catholic pilgrimage site with the faithful treking over the high mountains from Cusco once a year.

Family on an outing to the church.

A recent mini landslide took out the no passing sign.

Picillacta, a pre Inca Wari site. It extends over at least 20 acres.

Tipon is an very well preserved Inca site dedicated to the worship of water. It was designed in the time of Pachacutec Inca.

The water comes from a spring and is directed through stone channels where is it divided into four channels representing the four provinces of the Inca world.

Then the water is directed in channels through the beautifully terraced site where it formerly irrigated the Inca crops.

The dots on the terraces are stone steps up the side of the terraces.

This site should not be missed on a trip to Cusco.