11:00 AM 28th September, Cusco City tour
We then took an underground tunnel, dark and cold, that twisted and turned us and and brought us in from of the teeth of the Puma.
Depending on the composition of the group and the sex of your guide, the jokes about the name of the site - pronounced as sexy women- can be pathetically stale to downright lewd.
Like most ruins in Peru, the purpose of this structure is unknown. Absence of any decoration - iconography, inscription, ancient graffiti - it becomes a mere study of the fantastic masonry. Supposed to have been competed in 1508, the huge stones have been fitted without any mortar. The binding is exquisite with the sharpest of a razor blade incapable of penetration.
The three bastions that remain account to less than a fifth of what was built with the top portions of each layer being pillaged by Spaniards as raw material to build churches else where
Do not miss this instruction board with hilarious rules.
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