Mood: Cheery
Music: 100 Chill Out Tunes - various
Today saw another early start, not too bad as I was very early to bed. I had to be out of the hotel by 5:30am to head to the airport for my next onward flight. The destination was Cuzco where I was met by the rep from the local travel company and also the lady who will be my private guide for the next few days while I'm in the area.
On our way to the hotel today we stopped off at two sites of interest, the first was the Moray inca ruins. These were an agricultural site where it is suggested the incas bread and acclimatised planets to the altitude before sending their seeds out to the similarly high areas of the empire. The site is set in a natural bowl and the sides have been stepped in concentric circles. It's very impressive simply due to the scale of the site and the potential uses it may have had.
The second was the natural salt mine in Maras. These have been worked for several centuries and are now kept open mainly as a tourist attraction as salt can be produced my more cheaply elsewhere. The mines are fed by a warm spring which passes through a large underground salt deposit and it then channeled into all of the flat pits, over 3000 of them in total. Photos are on picasa.
Other than that, I went for a walk up the valley from here a couple of miles just to see what I could see. The answer was more mountain and more stepped valleys like the one Rolf is looking at in today's blog photo. It was nice to stretch my legs after a few days of relative inactivity.
Tomorrow sees me visiting the Inca ruins that sit above this town (Ollantaytambo) potentially by some more exploring of the local area.
Night all :)
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