Tipon and Pikillaqta are Inca and Huari archaeological sites respectively, located 20 kms west of Cusco and included on the Boleto Turistico.
The transit app Moovit gave us some very good info on how to catch the Los Leones public bus from near our apartment all the way to the plaza in Tipon, thus negating the need to hire a taxi from the main road to Tipon.
From the Tipon Plaza we walked up the paved road towards the site, then headed up the newly renovated and not officially open (it turns out) trail up to the site. Steep.
Great views down to Tipon.
Whoops. We've made it all the way up to the site so there's no option but to step over the orange net. ;-)
Tipon is a very large site. Lots of irrigated terraces, canals, and other waterworks.
First we followed a university group up to the Intiwatana (ritual calendar stone) and adjoining irrigation canals.
Above the Intiwatana there is an aqueduct with a small channel, and a small reservoir.
The builders of Tipon had not discovered arches so the water flows across this small ravine atop an earthen wall.
Sun-Ling atop the Intiwatana.
View back to Tipon.
Like the terraces in this photo, much of the site has not yet been excavated.
We head down the Inca road to the terraces.
Very elegant terraces with a working irrigation system fed by a 3-tiered ceremonial fountain.
2 x 15 second videos of the irrigation system at work.
The lower part of the site.
We taxied back down to the main road and caught a Urcos-bound bus 10kms west to Pikillaqta a large Huari (Wari) archaeological site was a ceremonial center laid out on a grid with an imposing perimeter wall enclosing hundreds of one and two story buildings.
Walking along an outer wall.
Ceremonial building.
Sun-Ling and John have been traveling the earth since 2008 while blogging, eating vegetarian and vegan, and riding public transportation. We love uphill day hikes, 20th-century architecture, Roman ruins, all bodies of water, local markets, shopping for groceries, aqueducts, miradors, trip planning, blablacar, and more.
Subscribe to:
Post Comments (Atom)
Most Recent Post
Uzbekistan: Bukhara
Bukhara was a major city on the Silk Road. It had been the capital of various dynasties. Many of the buildings we see today originated duri...
Most Popular Posts of Last 30 Days
-
Tashkent, Uzbekistan is our entry into Central Asia. The Silk Road had been a destination for us for decades. Besides the usual concerns for...
-
Last week we hauled our canoe and tent over to Merchants Millpond State Park and enjoyed some very fine camping and paddling. One day we p...
-
Khiva is really the first stop on our upstream tour of the Silk Road. An important post on the Silk Road, Khiva was razed and rebuilt many t...
-
From TashKent, we took a flight west to Nukus, located in Karakalpakstan, an autonomous region of Uzbekistan. Nukus itself is a city establi...
-
Bukhara was a major city on the Silk Road. It had been the capital of various dynasties. Many of the buildings we see today originated duri...
-
Polonnaruwa is an archeological site in north central Sri Lanka. Between the 11th and 13th century Polonnaruwa was the capital of the island...
-
Abus Dhabi seems more familiar than Dubai. There is a recognizable downtown. There are city parks connecting downtown to the sea. There are ...
No comments:
Post a Comment