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More Inca ruins round Cusco

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You can catch a minivan from Cusco up into the hills to an Inca site called Tambo Machay. You may then walk downhll into Cusco, passing several other sites. The whole thing takes a day. Tambo Machay has some hewn stone and a channel for a fresh water spring. It is thought that the Incas used it for water worship or some sort of ritual cleansing. At the entrance to the site there was the normal group of people selling handicrafts and a lady with two alpacas posing for photographs at the cost of 1 sol (25p) It is not far down the hill to the site of Puca Pucara where there is a group of Inca buildings standing on a promontary, thought to be used as a hunting lodge or a watch tower. The hills from Puca Pucara   By the way the Incas were in existence from the 13th Century until 1532 and the Spanish invasion. From Puca Pucara it is a fairly long hike to the next Inca site. We walked down past a pond and some fields where people were working. There were s