En la carretera

 

Quick stop for a pic near San Salvador, overlooking the Sacred Valley.

No, it wasn´t Jack Kerouac, but 24-year-old Rolf, a German in my spanish class, and I couldn´t pass up renting 250cc bikes from 8 a.m. to 7 p.m. for $25.

Left from Cuzco southeast to Tipón, a set of ruins believed to have served as a summer home for Incan rulers, to Pikillaqta, a ancient town almost complete with ruins.

 

Pikillaqta had the base ruins of hundreds of homes, and parts, like this village pathway, were mostly intact. The village predates the Incas.

From Pikillaqta northeast to San Salvador, where a man´s figure appeared in a rock a couple hundred years ago. A church was built so that the El Senor de Huanca apparition bulges into the middle of the altar from the rockface.

From San Salvador to Pisác, with ruins on top of a mountain. Impressively high and steep.