Pisac is the
last of the archeological sites near Cusco on our boleto touristica, and the
largest. The ruins overlook the
Urubamba River valley and are best know for the massive agricultural terraces. Even higher on the hillsides you can see the plundered tombs of Incas.
We arrived
early and had the ruins to ourselves (sound familiar?) for two hours, enough
time to explore the entire place.
We wandered along the criss-crossing trails, through tunnels and up
vertigo inducing stairways, enjoying the scenery and looking for birds until
the tour buses showed up.
We could
easily have visited all of the ruins around Cusco, including Machu Picchu, in
three or four days instead of the ten we took. But we wouldn’t have had time to appreciate everything, much
less digest all we saw. When we return to the hotel we enjoy a leisurely lunch,
relax, write in our journals and download the day’s photos. The luxury of time
is one of the things we most appreciate about our style of travel.
