The climb up to the ruins above Pisaq. I called it a hill in the earlier post, but my legs would have firmly disputed the terminology if you asked them once we got to the top after an hour and a half. Unfortunately having missed out on the Inca Trail due to heavy bookings, we decided to try doing the best impression of it that we could. This was step one, and one photo doesn´t really do the trail and the ruins justice. So you get three! Aren´t you lucky - remember you can click on the photos to enlarge.
Once we got up there, the view over the ruins reminded me so much of the ubiquitous Macchu Picchu postcards, that it immediately was dubbed ¨Mini Macchu Picchu¨. Cue terrible jokes: ¨the margarine of Macchu Picchu¨, ¨the Diet Coke of Macchu Picchu¨etc. All besmirching aside, it was a beautiful, serene place, with more amazing stonework and our first taste of the brilliant water channels designed by the Incas to channel natural springs through their constructions and agricultural terraces.
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